Shakespeare

'Such a February face': Ranking Shakespeare's most savage insults

October 07, 2025 12:45 pm

Forget playground taunts, when Shakespeare wanted to throw shade, he did it with a level of wit and viciousness that remains unmatched.

The resurrection of Ophelia: From Shakespeare’s drowned girl to Taylor Swift’s showgirl

September 09, 2025 1:44 pm

Shakespeare's Ophelia is back, not as Millais’s fragile maiden but as a glittering spectacle. Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl reimagines drowning as defiance, while Netflix’s Wednesday introduces “Aunt Ophelia.”

Haryana govt employee marked as dead, denied salary: human rights panel invokes Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to flag 'administrative negligence'

August 18, 2025 8:37 pm

The Haryana Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance of a news report about the news report of a govt employee, whose record erroneously marked him as dead, leading to prolonged non-payment of wages.

Rajat Kapoor on directing plays and films: 'They are vastly different worlds'

March 27, 2025 9:45 am

"Art is a way to question, to challenge the status quo, and even if you don’t have all the answers, just raising those questions leads to change," said Kapoor.

Vishal Bhardwaj heaps praises on Vikrant Massey's 12th Fail, calls it a silver lining for independent films

February 07, 2024 3:58 pm

Vishal sees 12th Fail’s success as a beacon of hope, stressing that audiences are still open to stories told outside the mainstream, even in these uncertain times

Ideas and thoughts force you to act, to write, to direct, so that they can be expressed… it’s like a compulsion: Rajat Kapoor

August 08, 2023 4:54 pm

Rajat Kapoor says he identifies himself as a director first and that filmmaking has always been his first passion. His play 'Nothing Like Lear', starring Vinay Pathak, was recently staged at the fourth edition of the Delhi Theatre Festival.

Shakespeare's environmentalism: How his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today

April 22, 2023 7:35 pm

In fact, the common but misleading phrase “industrial revolution” masks the long history of resource extraction and ecological degradation in the British Isles stretching back at least to the arrival of the tin-hungry Romans.

Five myths about Shakespeare's contribution to the English language

September 01, 2022 1:54 pm

Those myths send us down rabbit holes and make us lose sight of what is truly impressive about Shakespeare – what he did with his words

Rare folio edition of Shakespeare’s 'Henry IV' to be auctioned

October 27, 2021 9:40 am

The folio consists of his most important works like Macbeth, Tempest, and was together by John Heminges and Henry Condell, the playwright's friends and actors

UK's all-black, all-female theatre group aims to make Shakespeare 'accessible for new generation'

June 13, 2021 7:58 pm

The company has been launched by actors Maisey Bawden, Gabrielle Brooks, Danielle Kassaraté and Jade Samuels

Sir Ian McKellen At British Council Gig To Mark Shakespeare's 400th Birthday

May 27, 2016 7:26 pm