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The Bodleian Library to Digitize Their Shakespeare First Folio

2 August 2012

Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is known for its exacting standards of behavior and its difficult admission process (you have to sit through a lecture on the library’s history...

The Humanity in a Monster’s Eyes: Ron Cephas Jones Brings Richard III to the Public

30 July 2012

Before the Olympics opened and began their fortnight of filling London with the best and brightest athletic stars, London held what they called the Cultural Olympiad.  The events started...

Wondering About Those Isles: Why Shakespeare Is Bad For The Olympics

28 July 2012

In the early part of Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, actor Kenneth Branagh read Caliban’s speech from Act 3, scene 2, of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It goes...