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“Love’s Labour’s Lost” at the Globe Theatre

Neil Dowden on the South Bank ★★★★☆ 3 August 2026 Love’s Labour’s Lost may be one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays

“Lear” at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

“Richard III” at Cockpit Theatre

“Othello”, Bard in the Botanics, Glasgow

Book reviewsSEE ALL

“New British Drama in 15 Scenes: Adventures in Theatre Criticism” by Aleks Sierz (Methuen Drama)

Book review by Maryam Philpott New playwriting and innovative revivals are driven by questions of who we are, why do

“The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby”, Irene Coslet

“Dark Renaissance”, Stephen Greenblatt

“Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theater” by Catalina Florina Florescu

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FestivalsSEE ALL

Shaw Festival at the Irish Cultural Centre

David Wootton in West London 17 July 2026 Until Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, the

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