Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.

Life in Shakespeare’s England Shakespeare wrote tragedies, like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, and also comedies, like The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Beliefs and superstitions in Shakespeare’s ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his daughters, with many secondary characters in Shakespeare’s complex original not making an appearance.