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The British Museum opened in January 1759 with a collection of around eighty thousand items. Today it contains more than four million objects.
Scholars call them the "bad" quartos, but the first published versions of Shakespeare's plays offer acting groups a way to produce fresh, exciting stage shows.
Who wrote Shakespeare? A Shakespeare plot has emerged to discredit the Bard. However, just a few facts from Shakespeare's life can readily quash the authorship debate.
FuturePlan, the V&A's redevelopment project, has progressed a step further. The new Theatre and Performance Galleries redisplay 350 years of British theatre history.
The goriest and most brutal play in Shakespeare's repertoire should be read by all who possess an interest
in literature, and perhaps even a few curious cynics.
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is one of his most popular comedies. It deals with themes of love, deceit, infidelity and the differences between the sexes.
Does calling them "problem plays" simply allow us to ignore the parts of Shakespeare we find uncomfortable to modern taste?
Cambridge is a town with a long and varied history and a lot to see, so if the visitor only has one day here, what is the best way? The answer is a guided walking tour.
One of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, Love's Labour's Lost is a witty examination of sexual politics. However, it has a most uncomedic conclusion.
Shakespeare's plays reflect his life in Stratford-upon-Avon as seen in visits to five properties where he and his wife, Anne Hathaway, his mother and children once lived.
The lines in Shakespeare's Hamlet, as well as those in Shakespeare's other plays, are different depending upon the quarto, some of which scholars consider quite bad.
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