Got a couple of the big guns coming up now. King Lear this week and Macbeth next week. It’s always interesting to come to these ‘great’...

My only previous encounter with Timon of Athens was seeing the 2018 RSC production, directed by Simon Godwin and starring Kathryn Hunter....

As has often been the case during my work through of Shakespeare’s plays, the ones that I’m most looking forward to reading have been a...

Measure For Measure is a challenging play. That doesn’t mean that it is a bad play by any means, but it is one that requires a lot of...

My reading and writing has become quite disjointed as a result of some ongoing health problems – nothing like a couple of trips to...

I found Troilus and Cressida a very interesting and (mostly) enjoyable read. I have a very vague memory of having read it several years...

My Shakespeare reading has all gone a bit off-kilter recently. A combination of bursts of intense work and now being laid up with...

This is a very strange play! And, I have to say, I don’t think it’s a very good one. It’s certainly one that I feel is only ever...

It’s been nearly two months since my last Shakespeare blog. I actually read Hamlet nearly a month ago, but I’ve hardly had a moment to...

One of the remarkable things that struck me this week, as I sat down to read Julius Caesar, was that I’m over halfway through my...

I had to take a couple of weeks off from my Shakespeare Challenge. Work has really picked up on all fronts so it seemed sensible to take...

Henry V holds a special place in my heart, as the first play I ever directed professionally. That was seven years ago, and I still...

Having struggled the past couple of weeks to make my way through the Henry IV plays, it was an absolute joy to read Much Ado About...

The first little blip in my Shakespeare-A-Week Challenge. You’ll have to trust that I did actually read Henry IV Part 2 last week (I did,...

For whatever reason this week has felt like the hardest week so far to squeeze in my Shakespeare reading. Whilst part of this is due to...

The Merchant of Venice is a play I haven’t properly engaged with since I studied it for GCSE English. I remember seeing an amateur...

King John is very frustrating play. It is a play with a number of good scenes, good characters and good speeches but which never really...

I really think Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s most brilliantly written plays. One of only a handful of his plays written entirely in...

Like last week with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this was a play that I knew incredibly well. I have been in two (very) different...

We’re definitely entering some of Shakespeare’s ‘glory years’ here with three of his plays that I probably know the best all happening in...