The Staples of Shakespeare: Gender-Bending from TWELFTH NIGHT to 'VERONA'
TWELFTH NIGHT and RICHARD III, starring the Tony-winning, incomparable Mark Rylance, have adopted a creative leniency with the characters' gender - though Shakespeare's staple to command his characters to don the garb of a member of the opposite sex, for reasons interwoven in love and lust, greed and vengeance, is a common thread running throughout his romantic repertoire.
Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series To Launch This Summer
Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series begins this Monday, June 27 with the London Globe Theatre's critically acclaimed production of The Merry Wives of Windsor which will be shown in select movie theaters across the U.S. at 6:30 p.m. local time (please note earlier start time).