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 Chloe Owen, MA Shakespeare Studies. Margaret Atwood has chosen not to re-tell The Tempest, so much as to show one man’s engagement with the text in her contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare series. Hag-Seed follows Felix, the Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival, who is betrayed, fired, and who sends himself into exile outside of the town. 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 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 Shehrazade Zafar-Arif, MA Shakespeare Studies. Modern Shakespeare retellings are tricky things. It’s hard to update the norms and values of the 16th century and make them accessible to modern readers. It is even harder to translate fantastical elements into a modern setting. Read more...
Review by Andreea Scridon, BA Classics and Comparative Literature. Jeanette Winterson’s ‘The Gap of Time’ retells Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, transposing it into modernity. Read more...