Word for Word: Boy bands and the Bard

RyJoLC, an Irish education company, has designed a programme that helps students engage with Shakespeare by using One Direction lyrics and other modern references


Making a merry jest of Shrew’s misogyny

Shakespeare’s early ‘screwball’ comedy, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, is one of his most popular and controversial – so can an all-female cast take the edge of its sexism


This other ‘other Eden’

Can Shakespeare’s drama of a dethroned English King be turned into an Irish history lesson?





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