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A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2008 (c) Manuel Harlan

Shakespeare alluded to the pagan rituals of May day in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Here we learn more about these rituals…

John Light in 'A New World', Shakespeare's Globe 2009 (c) John Haynes

The Word of the Week is ‘Meed’
Voiced by John Light

"Did my heart love till now?" Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5

We take a look at three very different couples from Shakespeare’s work….

Performed in a mixture of Korean theatre styles, including song, dance, mime, acrobatics and martial arts, the production was vibrant, energetic and immensely enjoyable…

Winter at Shakespeare's Globe

Hiems The personification of Winter Used twice by Shakespeare, in Love’s Labour’s Lost : ”This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. ” and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ”And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown ” Spoken by Simon Kerr