Shakespeare’s Birthday (Again!)
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As The Shakespeare’s Globe team in London remind us: Happy (459th) Birthday Shakespeare! (https://www.shakespearesglobe.com). Links suggested by John Foreman.
At one level we are reminded of the Shakespeare industry. There are many many editions of Shakespeare’s plays and the accompanying academic industry. Conservative curriculum in England still mandates Shakespeare as essential to the schooling of young minds.
Stepping beyond those caveats, the richness and imaginative power of Shakespeare continues to weave a powerful web generation after generation.
What are your favourite quotations from the Bard?
Why do we continue to see new productions of his plays in new mediums?
(The latest Macbeth directed by Joel Coen for ApplyTV, for example. Or, Romeo and Juliet filmed in an empty theatre, over seventeen days, during a global pandemic in 2021 and recently on ABC TV ins Australia.)
What is the relevance of Shakespeare to Australian students in 2022?
In1961 Jan Kott published Shakespeare Our Contemporary “finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage-conceptions”.
That’s a long time ago in another century, but is Shakespeare still resonating with Generation X/Y/Z? And why?
