Shakespeare's Sonnets Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Announces Funding of Irish Arts Abroad – Visual Artists Ireland The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht announced funding for the promotion of Irish arts abroad. Under its Summer 2015 grants round, Culture Ireland has awarded €321,500 to eighty-five applicants including individual artists and arts organisations to support the presentation of their work globally. This funding will provide considerable opportunities for the promotion of Irish arts and culture around the world throughout the remainder of 2015 and into 2016. Successful projects cover all art forms and involve presenting in twenty-seven different countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India, Paraguay, various European countries as well as the United States and Canada. Artists continue to attract new as well as committed audiences and their international work has become a critical factor for many in sustaining their careers and ensuring the ongoing viability of many arts companies. For the full list of projects funded CLICK HERE
Shakespeare's influence on modern literature I have just finished reading a really good book called Juliet written by the American author Anne Fortier. I finished this book in under a week as the story was so compelling, each page had me gripped. The main character in the book is called Julie Jacobs or Guilietta Tolomei as we later discover. She lives in Virginia on the east coast of America. After receiving the news that her aunt has died she rushes home and is launched into a quest of family secrets, love and danger. There have been many rumours that Shakespeare was not responsible for all of his great works and this book is fiction, but it suggests that Romeo and Juliet is set in Siena rather than the famous Verona. One element that I really liked about this book is that it switches between the present day and 1640 AD. I loved reading this book as it gave a new perspective to Shakespeare's famous Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare's Influence Today by Alyssa Mah on Prezi Abbey Theatre admits its 2016 programme ‘does not represent gender equality’ Updated at 23.07pm THE ABBEY THEATRE has acknowledged that its 2016 programme, Waking the Nation, does not represent gender equality. The statement from the board and director of Ireland’s national theatre comes after days of criticism of its new programme, on which there is just one play written by a woman, and the subsequent launch of the #WakingtheFeminists campaign. Lian Bell, a set designer and arts manager, has used the hashtag #WakingTheFeminists over the past week to create a call to action for people who want equality for women in Irish theatre. Bell has been gathering and sharing testimony from men and women on her Twitter feed for the past week, and this has led to a public meeting being organised to take place in the Abbey. Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Bell said she had been moved to write about the dearth of women in the Abbey’s 2016 programme on Facebook, before going on to bring the campaign to Twitter. “We’ve lived with it without doing anything about it” Incredible reaction
Who was William Shakespeare? William Shakespeare is known across the world as the writer of plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, and as one of the most famous British people ever. Sometimes known simply as ‘the Bard’, he lived over four hundred years ago – not bad for the son of a man who made a living from making gloves. Part of the fascination is that despite being so well-known we don’t actually have much information about him; even his name is spelt differently each time it appears, ranging from ‘Shak-peare’ to ‘Shaksper’. Over the years people have argued long and hard about whether he wrote the plays, although these days he’s generally accepted as the author of about thirty-eight plays, some of which were written in partnership with others. He also wrote lots of famous poetry. Baptised on 26th April, 1564, his actual birthday isn’t known but conveniently England’s national day, St George’s Day, is the 23rd of April so over the years this is when his birth has been celebrated.
Why Do We Still Care About Shakespeare? | Ovations | UTSA's College of Liberal and Fine Arts Magazine By Cindy Tumiel Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his prose, plots and characters are as alive today as they were when the plays were originally staged during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For two of UTSA’s eminent literary scholars, the bard of Avon’s enduring appeal is an enduring topic as well. The answer is simple for Craven, a professor emeritus at UTSA who taught his first Shakespeare course back in 1965. “He is the greatest dramatist, the greatest poet and the greatest prose writer in the history of the language,” said Craven, who teaches undergraduate courses in Shakespeare and has seen all of his plays performed at least once. The language is rich, the characters are complex and many of his basic themes – love, treachery, honor, bravery and political intrigue – still resonate today, said Craven. Alan Craven Mark Bayer, an associate professor and chair of the Department of English at UTSA, agreed. Mark Bayer
Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright and is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1564 and he died in 1616. His surviving work consists of 38 plays, 154 sonnets and some other poems. When William Shakespeare was 18 years old he married Anne Hathaway, and they had three children. Shakespeare’s work is still very popular today. Here is a selection of Shakespeare’s plays. The Merchant of Venice This play is about the idea that people usually get what they deserve in the end, good or bad. Hamlet This play is about revenge and also about how difficult it is to take action sometimes, even when it is important. As You Like It This play is a comedy about romantic love. Henry V This is a history play about a famous English king, and a famous battle, Agincourt. Which play would you like to see?