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 Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. A lecture by Jonathan Hope, Professor of Linguistics at Strathclyde University. Jonathan Hope began his lecture on Digital Shakespeare with a photo of a book chained to a reading desk. It was taken in a medieval library, where there were so few books that each book had its own stand... Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. Shylock is My Name isn’t the book that Booker Prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson wanted to contribute to the Hogarth Shakespeare. Read more...
Review by Cara Rodrigues, MSc Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience The Overture Shakespearian roared into existence a little after 6pm on Thursday 28th January 2016. The Southbank Sinfonia, having only come together a week before and comprised of eighteen different nationalities, brought St John’s Church thundering to life Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. A lighting exhibition developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Barbican Centre. Read more...
Review by Rowena Hawkins, MA Shakespeare Studies. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Barbican Hall. Read more...
Reviewed by Dr. Aidan Elliott, Department of English. In 1961 the newly-created Royal Shakespeare Company chose As You Like It as one of its first productions; Peter Hall asked Michael Elliott to direct it Read more...
Review by Gemma Miller, PhD Candidate, English. Trevor Nunn’s 1990 Othello was one of the first television Shakespeare films I saw, and it was a rare treat to re-visit it in the shared-audience environment of the Barbican cinema Read more...
Review by Dr. Aidan Elliott: Department of English. The Guardian’s theatre critic Michael Billington has described these two plays as Shakespeare’s greatest, and this latest interpretation by Greg Doran demonstrates why. Read more...
Review by Romola Nuttall, first year PhD in English Literature. Historical issues at heart of Richard II made brilliantly clear by Gregory Doran in this return to the Barbican for Shakespeare’s quarter-centenary Read more...
