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 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...
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...
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 Richard Foord, MA Renaissance Literature. A lighting installation developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Inspired by the set design for the plays, the installation explores the use of creative stage lighting and projections in the productions. Read more...
