What a shame, Sir John Falstaff. The Royal Shakespeare Company has ruled that Prince Hal’s buxom companion was the victim of “bullying in the form of body shaming” in its new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Falstaff is one of the Bard’s most objectionable characters, entertaining disreputable people in dodgy taverns and embezzling… Read More »
Michelle Terry, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, described the response to his role as Richard III as “disproportionate” and said much of the anger directed at him in recent months had been misogynistic. The Globe faced widespread criticism when it was announced that Olivier-winning actor and writer Terry would play Shakespeare’s “deformed, incomplete” king when… Read More »
Actor Ian Gelder, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a notable supporting actor for decades at the National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company in the West End and leading fringe theatres, before finding fame playing Shakespeare’s brother Kevan Lannister on television. Tywin (Charles Dance), the fearsome patriarch plotting a Shakespearean power grab, in… Read More »