The British Museum is also sponsoring a companion exhibition, "Crowns and Ducats: Shakespeare's Money and Medals, " showing the importance of money in Shakespeare's plays.
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Fiona Banks, head of learning at Globe Education at Shakespeare s Globe, in Southwark, London, said the initiative would help "students engage with Shakespeare's plays - as plays - to be experienced practically and through performance".
In honour of the birthday celebrations, the Birthplace visitor centre will open a new exhibition, Famous Beyond Words, in March, retelling the story of Shakespeare's development from Stratford local to world famous playwright, using artefacts from the museum's collection (such as the 1623 First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays and the only reliable source for more than 20 of his works).
There are references to it in Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Anthony and Cleopatra.
He said the couple's patronage of Shakespeare's plays was boosting their popularity.
The opening weekend includes large-scale productions such as the National Ballet of China's The Peony Pavilion and Mokwha Repertory Company's version of Shakespeare's Tempest.
It examined how the popularity, in Elizabethan England, of the Roman writer's tragedies influenced Shakespeare's writing - and was due to be republished in 1957, prompting Eliot to contact his friend.
Think of fiction's best drawn, most entertaining characters - Chaucer's Pardoner, Shakespeare's Iago, every third man and woman in Jane Austen, every other man and woman in Dickens - and the H-word is there, satisfyingly to be unmasked.
Theatre-goers named Anne Boleyn the winner, the English Touring Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare's Globe production.
Phyllida Lloyd's production at London's Donmar Warehouse sees Shakespeare's political conspiracy drama performed by the female inmates.
Despite the turmoil and lengthy interruptions that had afflicted Gide's own work, he ensured Shakespeare's elevation to cult status.
Critics praised Fry's "unexpectedly gentle" performance in Shakespeare's comedy.
The company's 1603-04 season saw seven of Shakespeare's plays performed, including Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure.
Koetsu's is as new a species in spacing as Shakespeare's is a new species in drama.
"Love's Labour's Lost" is the most extravagantly artificial of Shakespeare's comedies, a pun-encrusted farrago of frenetic wordplay that lacks the emotional immediacy of his better-known plays.
As part of his residency last year, Ravenhill wrote a sonnet for Shakespeare's birthday - to mark the launch of the World Shakespeare Festival.
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Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart, " as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.
's "I Have a Dream" speech, a photograph, a copy of Francis Crick and James Watson's famous "double helix" scientific paper from 1953 and Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.
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Packer's engaging, five-part analysis of the progression of Shakespeare's attitude toward his female and male characters over the years sets up vigorous enactment of relevant speeches and scenes.
In 2011, former Doctor Who stars Catherine Tate and David Tennant took on the roles at Wyndham's Theatre at the same time as an acclaimed production at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Eve Best and Charles Edwards.
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Yet Hunt's "Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus" (after Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona") attains a high degree of Romantic beauty while offering a record of the painstaking historic realism that characterized Victorian Shakespeare productions by Charles Kean and Henry Irving.
And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.
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Just beyond the Tate Modern is Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a 1997 reconstruction of the open-air playhouse where Shakespeare once worked.
Yet connoisseurs need no reminding of the immense stature of Shakespeare's most explicitly political play.
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Shakespeare's Globe is setting up a new youth company to specialise in Jacobean period drama.
His contemporary adaption of Shakespeare's Roman drama was shot over eight weeks in Serbia.
Shakespeare's cynical turn of phrase - "They doth protest too much" - comes to mind.
The portrait will go on display to the public in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April, Shakespeare's birthday.
The epic tour departed from London on April 23 - Shakespeare's 450th birthday.
The show deals not only with Shakespeare's time but with how that era viewed its own history.
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