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What the “Shakespeare portrait” controversy can teach us about our relationship with reality

Kit Knightly

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is having the portrait of William Shakespeare removed from No. 10, according to various reports across the legacy media. This has “sparked a backlash”according...

Oct 20, 2024

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Tagged with: art and literature, Ben Jonson, Elizabethan history, history, Keir Starmer, William Shakespeare

OffG Recommends…Last Will & Testament

Kit Knightly

Today is St George’s Day, and it’s also Shakespeare’s Birthday …except, not really. The truth is it’s a guess. William Shaksper, “the man from Stratford”, is known to have...

Apr 23, 2024

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Tagged with: Elizabeth I, film and television, historical perspectives, history, Mary Queen of Scots, reviews, William Shakespeare

This Week in the New Normal #61

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...