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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dance the death scene from Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet version of Romeo and Juliet. The score is by Prokofiev. 

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Alas, poor Hamnet: spotlight falls on Shakespeare’s tragic only son

Maggie O’Farrell is the latest modern writer to explore the mysterious life and early death of Hamnet Shakespeare

“It’s hard to say what darkens Shakespeare’s plays as the century tips into the uncertain seas of the new century,” said Doran, “but they seem to topple into an abyss in the early Jacobean period. The threat of terrorism, the gunpowder plot, a sense of the country and the world loosing its moorings, division as the new king strives for union, all seem familiar, and are perhaps reflected in his plays.”

The darkest notes of plays such as The Winter’s Tale and King Lear, which handle family death, are sometimes ascribed to Shakespeare’s bereavement, but other experts go directly to lines from King John

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Murals in the bedroom of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria (”Empress Sisi”) depict scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream

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William Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' starring Patrick Page is a striking work of horror about our time written for all time.

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So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and called me brother; and then the two kings called my father brother; and then the prince my brother and the princess my sister called my father father; and so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed.

William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale