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Shakespeare Magazine 05

Issue 5 of Shakespeare Magazine celebrates the amazing Shakespeare documentary film Muse of Fire. We also investigate Shakespeare and the Tower of London, and take a trip to the American Shakespeare Center, while Shakespeare's Globe performs at the Inns of Court. Lois Leveen rethinks Romeo and Juliet with her novel Juliet's Nurse, while the Filter Theatre Company remixes Macbeth at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Plus! Station Eleven, the thrilling post-apocalyptic Shakespeare novel by Emily St. John Mandel.

Issue 5 of Shakespeare Magazine celebrates the amazing Shakespeare documentary film Muse of Fire. We also investigate Shakespeare and the Tower of London, and take a trip to the American Shakespeare Center, while Shakespeare's Globe performs at the Inns of Court. Lois Leveen rethinks Romeo and Juliet with her novel Juliet's Nurse, while the Filter Theatre Company remixes Macbeth at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Plus! Station Eleven, the thrilling post-apocalyptic Shakespeare novel by Emily St. John Mandel.

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Historic places <br />

And the processes are strikingly similar.<br />

“However, whenever someone comments<br />

that in becoming an actor I am really just<br />

doing the same job I remind them that,<br />

whilst advocacy may at times be entertaining,<br />

a lawyer is engaged in a serious business. He<br />

is not there to put on a performance. Any<br />

advocate who plays to the gallery will be given<br />

a hard time in court.”<br />

Read Not Dead at the Inns of Court will<br />

continue into 2015 as part of ‘<strong>Shakespeare</strong><br />

and Friendship’. Love’s Sacrifice by John Ford<br />

will be performed in the Great Hall at Gray’s<br />

Inn on Sunday 15 February. The play was<br />

dedicated to Ford’s cousin and namesake,<br />

John Ford who was a member of Gray’s and<br />

High Court Judge<br />

Sir Michael Burton<br />

also took part in the<br />

staged reading of<br />

Supposes at Gray’s Inn.<br />

who the author called “my truest friend, my<br />

worthiest kinsman.” The performance will<br />

star current Gray’s members Master Roger<br />

Eastman, High Court Judge Sir Michael John<br />

Burton and Masters Charles Douthwaite and<br />

Colin Manning.<br />

On Sunday 1 March, Inner Temple<br />

Hall will host The Troublesome Reign of<br />

King John of England by George Peele, in<br />

celebration of the 800th anniversary of the<br />

signing of the Magna Carta. And the final<br />

reading will return to the Globe, with the<br />

anonymous The Faithful Friends on 19 April.<br />

<br />

SHAKESPEARE magazine 41

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