Shakespeare Solos starting February 1; Emma Rice and Shakespeare's language
As part of the whole #shakespeare400 thing, the Guardian is posting videos of various actors (among them Adrian Lester, Roger Allam, and Eileen Atkins) performing Shakespeare speeches, starting on February 1:
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/series/shakespeare-solos
There's a trailer up now, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
And while I'm here, an opinion piece about Shakespeare's language, and Emma Rice's suggestion that it's better to change "chimney-sweepers" to "dandelions":
In defence of Shakespeare's difficult bits
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/05/shakespeare-globe-theatre-language
And some letters in response to that piece:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jan/08/the-sin-of-smoothing-out-shakespeare
I admit that I've been kind of worrying about this ever since I read that article in which the author mentioned that Emma Rice changed the name "Fidele" to "Ian." I don't know anything about her, really, so I guess we'll wait and see, but...
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/series/shakespeare-solos
There's a trailer up now, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
And while I'm here, an opinion piece about Shakespeare's language, and Emma Rice's suggestion that it's better to change "chimney-sweepers" to "dandelions":
In defence of Shakespeare's difficult bits
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/05/shakespeare-globe-theatre-language
And some letters in response to that piece:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jan/08/the-sin-of-smoothing-out-shakespeare
I admit that I've been kind of worrying about this ever since I read that article in which the author mentioned that Emma Rice changed the name "Fidele" to "Ian." I don't know anything about her, really, so I guess we'll wait and see, but...