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 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 Cara Rodrigues, MSc Neuroscience. This lecture given by Professor McMullan was a delightfully insightful evening offering a detailed and riveting account of the impact of Shakespeare’s legacy on cultural events in time. Read more...
Review by Jamie Weisz, MA Early Modern History. This weekend marks the focal point of King’s College London’s official Shakespeare commemoration: the What You Will festival. The expansive programme features talks, book readings, performances; all showing just how much his work has been inspirational for generations. Read more...
Review by Amy Lee, BMus Music. Royal Librarian Oliver Urquhart Irvine delved into a discussion concerning Shakespeare and the monarchy in a pre-concert presentation at the Royal Festival Hall on 12 February. Read more...
Review by Poppy Mostyn-Owen, BA English. The Arden Shakespeare’s new collection On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration was launched in King’s College London’s Great Hall, which hosted ten of the most celebrated poets of the modern day. Read more...
Review by Hélène Couste, LLM (Master of Laws). The Shakespeare-inspired Tempest (1925-1926) is one of the last pieces Jean Sibelius composed before entering "The Silence of Järvenpää", the name given to the remaining 32 years of his life during which he wrote little else. Read more...
Review by Anna Crisp, MA Cultural and Creative Industries. As the culmination of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘New Horizons Education and Communication’s 2015/16 Spring project, first year GCSE students from South London schools performed innovative responses to Sibelius’ The Tempest. Read more...
Review by Jenna Byers, PhD candidate in History. This exhibition is interesting, in that it is attempting to do something different to most previous Shakespeare exhibitions that I have seen. It is not about Shakespeare’s plays and, in fact, his output as a playwright is seen as almost superfluous to the purpose of this exhibition. Read more...
Review by Andrew Home, MA in Philosophy. For 25 years the London Symphony Orchestra has used classical music to educate and inspire with its LSO Discovery programme. For ‘Play On Shakespeare’ they have teamed up with the Barbican for a mixture of child friendly, pantomime-like performances Read more...
Review by Caroline Martin, MA Shakespeare Studies. Following Fiona Talkington’s introduction and a promise that ‘spring [would] be in the air’, conductor David Hill and the BBC Singers begin a performance that, although springy, dares to venture into the darker tones of 20th and 21st century Shakespearean incidental music. Read more...
