Geoff Spiteri begins this Shakespeare miscellany with the first of many questions. Does Shakespeare matter? He’s asking if the bard’s work...

Geoff Spiteri begins this Shakespeare miscellany with the first of many questions. Does Shakespeare matter? He’s asking if the bard’s wo...

Geography Julian Barnes reviews Paris as some people might review a restaurant or piece of literature . The result is fascinating: ...

When I visited London a couple of years ago, one of my escapades was to visit the two churches that were important to Shakespeare , Southwar...

Books When I visited London a couple of years ago, one of my escapades was to visit the two churches that were important to Shakespeare ...

Science Brian Cox and Robin Ince talk to The List about how to make physics funny : "Cox: It depends on the level of your jokes, I s...

You've probably already heard of this palpable hit, but just in case ... Conor Madden -- who plays Hamlet in the Second Age Theatre prod...

TV Simon and Schuster, the long term license holders for Star Trek spin-off fiction have announced a clutch of "young adult" tit...

“There is no stable entity called Hamlet”, the authors proclaim at the top of chapter six of their discussion and once again I found myself ...

Film This recut trailer seems to capture everything I love about Ferris Bueller's Day Off more than the real thing, the relationship...

Books While most of Shakespeare’s plays confront issues related to sex to some degree, few forefront them with quite as much zeal as Mea...

While most of Shakespeare’s plays confront issues related to sex to some degree, few forefront them with quite as much zeal as Measure for M...

Quite a lot of the codification for her interpretation of the character is in her hair : "There’s a lot to be done with my hair, becaus...

TV One of the rights of passage most Doctor Who fans go through at some point is watching the whole series from start to, well, it used to...

Commenting on last week's controversy surrounding television producer Brian True-May’s policy of casting whites only in pastoral televis...

Books Commenting on last week's controversy surrounding television producer Brian True-May’s policy of casting whites only in pastor...

TV Sylvester McCoy has talked to the Shadowlocked blog on the occasion of The Hobbit's principle photography and the release of unoffi...

Books For the past few years I have been fermenting a theory about the porter’s scene in Macbeth. It’s the one moment of levity in what...

For the past few years I have been fermenting a theory about the porter’s scene in Macbeth. It’s the one moment of levity in what’s otherwi...

TV Tom Baker in season eighteen reminds me of a bloke I once worked with who was close to retirement. Like Tom, he’d increasingly seen...