Shakespeare Magazine 13
Ian McKellen is the cover star of Shakespeare Magazine Issue 13. The great man talks about the challenges of playing King Lear, while Fiona Shaw explains Katherine from Taming of the Shrew and Patrick Stewart discusses Shylock. Also this issue, we look at the TV series that portrayed Shakespeare as a punk, and we delve into the sometimes horrific medical treatments of Shakespeare’s day. Graham Holderness tells us about The Faith of William Shakespeare, while Jem Bloomfield investigates Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery. We also have excellent interviews with Sam White of Shakespeare in Detroit and Mya Gosling of Good Tickle Brain. Not forgetting our round-up of recent Shakespeare books and our essential guide to studying Shakespeare!
Ian McKellen is the cover star of Shakespeare Magazine Issue 13. The great man talks about the challenges of playing King Lear, while Fiona Shaw explains Katherine from Taming of the Shrew and Patrick Stewart discusses Shylock. Also this issue, we look at the TV series that portrayed Shakespeare as a punk, and we delve into the sometimes horrific medical treatments of Shakespeare’s day. Graham Holderness tells us about The Faith of William Shakespeare, while Jem Bloomfield investigates Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery. We also have excellent interviews with Sam White of Shakespeare in Detroit and Mya Gosling of Good Tickle Brain. Not forgetting our round-up of recent Shakespeare books and our essential guide to studying Shakespeare!
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Welcome <br />
Welcome<br />
Photo: David Hammonds<br />
to Issue <strong>13</strong> of <strong>Shakespeare</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
Every summer there is a <strong>Shakespeare</strong> Festival here in Bristol, and I<br />
usually manage to miss most of it. This year was different. I saw an<br />
eccentric play called <strong>Shakespeare</strong>’s Worst in a church hall. I saw an<br />
inventive production of The Tempest in the open-air setting of the<br />
Blaise Castle estate, and a ferociously funny Taming of the Shrew on<br />
Brandon Hill. The latter also hosted a ludicrously amusing Comedy of<br />
Errors by an all-male troupe who’d recently had their van stolen. I saw<br />
four mad blokes doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a city farm,<br />
and I saw a haunting Romeo and Juliet in a Victorian cemetery. I saw<br />
a surprisingly enjoyable opera about Ophelia in a church. (I missed a<br />
one-man King Lear because I turned up at the wrong church)<br />
And I went to see a Bristol University professor talking about<br />
<strong>Shakespeare</strong> in a pub. Needless to say, I enjoyed that.<br />
I also enjoyed two things that weren’t part of the festival but were<br />
happening at the same time – a production of Julius Caesar at the<br />
historic Bristol Old Vic Theatre, and an extraordinary staged reading<br />
of Hamlet by people of all ages and varying degrees of experience, the<br />
culmination of one of the Old Vic’s adult courses.<br />
The festival closed with a performance of Twelfth Night in the<br />
verdant St George Park. It took place by a small lake, with the rain<br />
absolutely bucketing down. At the end, clutching futile umbrellas, the<br />
cast valiantly performed the song ‘The Rain it Raineth Every Day’.<br />
It was a truly magnificent <strong>Shakespeare</strong>an moment.<br />
Enjoy your magazine.<br />
Pat Reid, Founder & Editor<br />
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