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"I want them to feel magic": Emily Lim on her Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe

Director Emily Lim on turning every audience member into a mechanical, the moment Shakespeare leaves Titania silent, and the joy at the heart of her Globe production.

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Understand the use of soliloquy in William Shakespeare's “Hamlet” buff.ly/43SvuAH Britannica, in partnership with the Folger #Shakespeare Library, presents a discussion of how Shakespeare used soliloquy to illuminate character in Hamlet.

As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. Pericles (2.5) #ShakespeareSunday

A proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day. Midsummer Night’s Dream (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday

Thou art a summer bird. Henry IV, Part 2 (4.3) #ShakespeareSunday

Aug 1, 30 BC: Mark Antony commits suicide following Octavian's invasion of Egypt. #OTD

Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta | buff.ly/aNMIRQJ

Love’s Labour’s Lost reviews: critics split over the Globe’s flamenco-fuelled Shakespeare buff.ly/wBussXY While reviewers agree the Iberian concept is a bold and ambitious idea, they’re divided on whether it illuminates one of Shakespeare’s trickiest early comedies or buries it entirely.

Jul 28, 1540: King Henry VIII marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, in Oatlands and has Thomas Cromwell executed for treason at Tower Hill. #OTD

What's past is prologue buff.ly/FMeP83X Scholar James Shapiro looks at how Shakespeare has always “served as a canary in a coal mine, alerting us to threats to our fragile democracy.”

How Shakespeare won the Wild West, from pioneers to gold miners to today | buff.ly/v9y0ojM

Jul 27, 1054: Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats King Macbeth. #OTD

We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. Coriolanus (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

The story of that baleful burning night When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam’s Troy. Titus Andronicus (5.3) #ShakespeareSunday

I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. Julius Caesar (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Jul 26, 1602: Hamlet is entered into the Stationer's Register in London. #OTD #Shakespeare bit.ly/3nPghHG

Jul 25, 1603: King James VI of Scotland is crowned as King James I of England. #OTD buff.ly/7O9avLY

Jul 21, 1403: King Henry IV narrowly defeats Henry "Hotspur" Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury. #OTD buff.ly/npWc55W

Truth Before Power: Shakespeare On Judgment buff.ly/amhgnpc Sam Ben-Meir contrasts Ophelia's obedience in Hamlet with Cordelia's honesty in King Lear as a lesson in responding to authoritarian demands.

I know I love in vain, strive against hope. All's Well That Ends Well (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday

I see this hath a little dashed your spirits. Othello (3.3) #ShakespeareSunday

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Merry Wives of Windsor (1.1) #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @lizziecanttweet - HOPE & DISAPPOINTMENT

Aragorn: There is always hope - Lord of the Rings

ALT: Aragorn: There is always hope - Lord of the Rings

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Jul 17, 1453: The French army defeats the English at the Battle of Castillon, effectively ending the Hundred Years' War. #OTD

Jul 16, 1377: King Richard II of England is crowned at the age of 10. #OTD

‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire | www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

“Honest neighbors”: Much Ado’s Dogberry and Verges ride again | buff.ly/s6R9aem

How Shakespeare’s The Tempest can help readers understand the hidden costs of AI buff.ly/ILhwHuv The authors, using The Tempest as an allegory for AI colonialism, compares resource-hungry data centres built on marginalized land to Prospero's exploitative rule over Caliban and Ariel.

I’ll make sport with thee. All’s Well That Ends Well (5.3) #ShakespeareSunday

We are enow To do our country loss. Henry V (4.3) #ShakespeareSunday