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In the Romantic age, Shakespeare became extremely popular in Russia. [10] Vissarion Belinsky wrote he had been "enslaved by the drama of Shakespeare". [10] Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, was heavily influenced by Hamlet and the history plays, and his novel Boris Godunov showed strong Shakespearean influences. [10]
Shakespeare's work is also lauded for its insight into emotion. His themes regarding the human condition make him more acclaimed than any of his contemporaries. Humanism and contact with popular thinking gave vitality to his language. Shakespeare's plays borrowed ideas from popular sources, folk traditions, street pamphlets, and sermons.
March 2020 saw the UK enter into a nationwide lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. [15] British theatre closures were announced on March 16. [16] Robert Myles, an actor and Shakespeare aficionado [17] who found himself out of work, created The Show Must Go Online in less than a week, [18] in response to the widespread cancellation of jobs and contracts faced by theatrical industry ...
As well as space travel, the films explore the relevance of Shakespeare’s words to us in 2023, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s war in Ukraine, immigration and the refugee crisis ...
An Englishman named William Shakespeare became the first man to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine outside clinical trials in the U.K. The BBC reports that Shakespeare, 81, said he was “pleased ...
A portrait of William Shakespeare and a copy of a speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" were sent to the edge of space as part of a short film series marking 400 years since the first volume of ...
The Yorkist claim is put so clearly that Henry admits, aside, that his own is weak [24] —"the first time," notes Kelly, "that such an admission is conjectured in the historical treatment of the period". Shakespeare is suggestively silent in Part 3 on the Yorkist Earl of Cambridge's treachery in Henry V's reign.
The author of several award-winning books about Shakespeare takes a deep dive into the Federal Theatre Project, a short-lived New Deal program designed to give theater people work and bring the ...