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New insights from Shakespeare's England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change
Yet periods of extreme heat were surprisingly frequent during the previous century, especially in the England that Shakespeare knew. More than a dozen droughts were recorded across England in the ...
Fury as woke university slaps over 200 trigger warnings on works of Shakespeare – including for storms and balloons
A University slapped more than 200 trigger warnings on William Shakespeare’s works — including for storms and popping balloons. The University of the West of England also advised drama students ...
Shakespeare’s greatest play? There’s only one contender
Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...
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Beliefs and superstitions in Shakespeare’s England
This was called the Reformation. The break with Rome eventually triggered England’s transition into a Protestant country. By the time Shakespeare was born in 1564, Protestantism was the main ...
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UK university adds trigger warnings to Shakespeare for ‘popping balloons,’ ‘extreme weather’
A university in England has put over 200 trigger warnings on Shakespeare works and adaptations for things such as the ...
University adds 200 trigger warnings including ‘extreme weather’ and ‘mourning’ to Shakespeare
Students also receive alerts over use of ‘knives’ and ‘popping of balloons’ in several of the playwright’s top works ...
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Shakespeare's Globe
Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor This is not the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's time. The original Globe Theatre – which staged Shakespeare's plays and where the Bard wrote "Twelfth Night," "King ...
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Performative Utterances and Gender Performance in Shakespeare's Richard III
https://doi.org/10.13169/bethunivj.36.2019.0115 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/bethunivj.36.2019.0115 This article aims to analyze the discourse of cursing ...