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 Jenna Byers, PhD candidate in History. The season explores the inspirational influence of our greatest playwright on filmmakers across the world, featuring films from the silent era, award-winning adaptations and contemporary interpretations of the Bard’s work. Read more...
Review by Jenna Byers, PhD candidate, History. ‘Othello’ is one of Shakespeare’s more thought-provoking plays, in that it very clearly demonstrates an attitude which modern society deems entirely inappropriate, but which would have been perfectly acceptable to Shakespeare’s contemporaries in the fifteenth century. Read more...
Review by Ingrid Penzhorn, MSc Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) For the weekend of 23 and 24 April, Shakespeare’s Globe has transformed London’s Southbank into a Shakespeare showcase with 37 screens erected along the riverbank from Westminster to Tower Bridge. The outdoor screens feature short film depictions of all Shakespeare’s plays with each having been shot in the authentic mise en scène the Bard had in mind. Read more...
Review by Richard Foord, MA Renaissance Literature. A series of rare and silent Shakespeare films from the dawn of cinema. Read more...
Review by Jenna Byers, PhD candidate in History. The season will explore the inspirational influence of our greatest playwright on filmmakers across the world, featuring films from the silent era, award-winning adaptations and contemporary interpretations of the Bard’s work. Read more...
Review by Yianna Theodorou, English and Film BA. The evening’s screening of Forbidden Planet was introduced by members of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences with a keen interest to prove their department held an interest in the arts, and did not simply run on numbers and tests. Set in a distant future, yet based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest... 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...
