Shakespeare Magazine 12
Shakespeare’s Sisters is the theme of Shakespeare Magazine 12. Our cover stars – Harriet Walter, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Margaret Atwood – all speak with authority, insight and wit about their adventures with the Bard. Also this issue, we have Jade Anouka’s Donmar Shakespeare in pictures, while Hugh Bonneville and Benedict Cumberbatch chat about The Hollow Crown. We have brilliant guest essays on Shakespeare’s Storms and How to think like Shakespeare, along with John Foxx’s Arden Shakespeare cover art, the madcap comedy world of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a Doctor Strange/Shakespeare mash-up!
Shakespeare’s Sisters is the theme of Shakespeare Magazine 12.
Our cover stars – Harriet Walter, Judi Dench, Sophie Okonedo and Margaret Atwood – all speak with authority, insight and wit about their adventures with the Bard.
Also this issue, we have Jade Anouka’s Donmar Shakespeare in pictures, while Hugh Bonneville and Benedict Cumberbatch chat about The Hollow Crown.
We have brilliant guest essays on Shakespeare’s Storms and How to think like Shakespeare, along with John Foxx’s Arden Shakespeare cover art, the madcap comedy world of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a Doctor Strange/Shakespeare mash-up!
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Margaret Atwood<br />
ike <strong>Shakespeare</strong> in general, he gives you a lot<br />
of unanswered questions, he gives you a lot of<br />
possibilities with each of the characters. Who are<br />
they really? And starting at the end, with that very<br />
peculiar epilogue which ends with three words ‘set<br />
me free’, you think ‘What are you asking to be set<br />
free from?’ So I went backwards from that, and<br />
when you do that you realise everybody in the play<br />
is in prison. That’s why it’s set in a prison. Every<br />
single one of them is imprisoned in some way. So<br />
there is a reason why objectively that might be a<br />
good setting to put on that play in.<br />
“After I’d finished the book I was told that<br />
in Italy a man who was in prison and put on<br />
The Tempest while he was there found it such a<br />
transformative experience that now that he has<br />
gotten out of prison he has made a career of<br />
going and teaching <strong>Shakespeare</strong> in prisons. And<br />
he’s written a book about it that I long to have<br />
translated so I can read it.”<br />
Margaret Atwood speaking to The Canadian Press,<br />
October 2016<br />
Above: Artist Zach Lieberman<br />
created a digital art installation<br />
based on the text of Margaret<br />
Atwood’s Hag-Seed. Here<br />
we see Margaret physically<br />
interacting with her own text<br />
on the big screen.<br />
Watch it now<br />
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