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 />
Left: <strong>Shakespeare</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> attended<br />
Margaret Atwood’s<br />
October 2016<br />
performance in Bath.<br />
Below: The Tempest<br />
directed by West Hyler<br />
at the University of<br />
Notre Dame (Photo<br />
by Matt Cashore).<br />
“It’s part of the Hogarth <strong>Shakespeare</strong> Project to<br />
honour the 400th anniversary of <strong>Shakespeare</strong>’s<br />
death, and to celebrate that they asked a number<br />
of writers to choose a play of <strong>Shakespeare</strong> and to<br />
revisit that play in the form of a modern novel.<br />
And apart from that, there weren’t any special<br />
instructions.<br />
“People have been asking me why I chose<br />
The Tempest, apart from the fact that it’s about a<br />
weather event and Canada’s very big on weather.<br />
We have a big choice of tempests every year.<br />
So I chose The Tempest for several reasons, one<br />
was that I had thought about Prospero quite a bit<br />
before. He’s in a book called A Writer on Writing in<br />
a chapter about Devious Magicians because he is a<br />
devious magician.<br />
“He’s quite sort of magisterial but he has a<br />
guilty side and he has a very vengeful side. In fact,<br />
the whole beginning of the play is the beginning of<br />
his vengeance plan, he wants revenge on the people<br />
who have kicked him out of his beautiful life and<br />
tried to kill him. The Tempest is driven by his desire<br />
for revenge.”<br />
Margaret Atwood speaking in Bath, England in<br />
October 2016<br />
“Prospero is a devious magician. He’s quite magisterial,<br />
but he has a guilty side. And he has a vengeful side”<br />
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