In order to create an archive of the Shakespeare 400 activities that took place across all the partner organisations in 2016, a team of students at King's College London, from various disciplines and levels of study, reviewed as many of the events as possible.
Below are all of the reviews. Use the search box to find reviews
of a particular event.
Review by Ruth Sherrington, PhD candidate, Classics The third in a series of three talks about Shakespeare at the National Theatre, held to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his death, this talk centred particularly on the theme of Family, following on from Old Age and Migration. Read more...
Review by Jamie Weisz, MA Early Modern History “If you want to learn about current affairs, go and see a Shakespeare history play.” This was the advice James Wright, resident Built Heritage Specialist with the Museum of London Archaeology team, told us before his talk on Shakespeare’s revered historical play, Henry V. As part of MOLA’s Shakespeare 400 events programme, Wright unpicked the history behind the play, both in terms of its historic content and the context in which it was written. Read more...
Review by Gemma Miller, PhD candidate in English The Winter’s Tale is undergoing a revival on the stages of London at the moment. The Kenneth Branagh Company’s award-winning production has recently completed its run at the Garrick Theatre; The Sam Wanamaker production, directed by Michael Longhurst, is currently entering its fourteenth week; Read more...
Review by Romola Nuttall, PhD student, Early Modern English Literature. In this well-attended talk, Michael Wood takes his audience back to the rural Warwickshire of Shakespeare’s grandparents and parents. Read more...
Review by Eleanor Fox, BMus, Music, AKC. This was the first of a series of talks organized by The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), which aims to demonstrate the historical significance of Shoreditch in the early modern period. Read more...
Review by Lucy Bloxham, MA Shakespeare Studies. Nearing the end of a long weekend packed tightly with academic lectures, performances and exhibitions, one would undoubtedly expect to be met with weary faces, tired ears and impenetrable brains. Read more...
Review by Gemma Miller, PhD candidate in English. Simon Russell Beale is one of those rare combinations: an instinctive and compelling actor and an erudite intellectual. Well-read, thoughtful and incisive, Read more...
Review by Richard Neo. King’s couldn’t have picked a better date to fall in love with Simon Russell Beale. Despite it being Valentine’s Day, the Great Hall was packed to the brim with audience members hankering to be this close to the acclaimed Shakespeare actor. Read more...
Review by Aurora Ganz. In the era of communication, two main trends have emerged: one that tends to overprotect the intimate spheres of privacy, and the other, which constantly looks for new platform to expose publicly our daily life. Read more...
Review by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif, MA Shakespeare Studies. What do you do with a play like Hamlet, the most talked about and most performed play in the Shakespearean canon? Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor took on this challenge head-on in their talk entitled ‘Making Hamlet New’ during the King’s Shakespeare Festival. Read more...
