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Denzel Washington distances himself from ‘Hollywood actor’ label
In a recent interview, actor Denzel Washington rejected the Hollywood label and emphasised his theater roots over the film industry.
Published on Mar 24, 2025 02:49 PM IST
Samarth Goyal
Roundabout | The lunatic, lover and poet are of imagination compact
The author of this unique collection of new verses, opening one side in Hindi and the other in Urdu, is Salman Akhtar—an Indian-American psychoanalyst practising in the United States
Published on Feb 23, 2025 08:24 AM IST
Nirupama Dutt
Spectator by Seema Goswami: Ghost protocol? Keep it real
Death is the ultimate whitewash. People who pass on are suddenly the best people we’ve known. Why such selective memory?
Updated on Aug 16, 2024 03:34 PM IST
Is Florida going to censor Shakespeare too as part of new book-challenge law?
Florida's new book-challenge law raises concerns about censorship and academic freedom, with the works of William Shakespeare potentially being restricted
Updated on Jul 16, 2023 03:33 PM IST
Paurush Omar
Lucknow University students enact scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, leave audience spellbound
The department of English and Modern European Languages of the Lucknow University (LU) hosted the first edition of ‘The Shakespeare Literary Festival’ on May 11
Updated on May 11, 2023 10:20 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Lucknow
Biography calls John Donne great as Shakespeare, wins UK nonfiction book prize
British writer Katherine Rundell’s biography on poet John Donne named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize at a ceremony in London. It argues that Donne is “a writer perhaps as great as Shakespeare, and a writer we should all read for his writing on love, sex and death.”
Updated on Nov 18, 2022 04:49 PM IST
AP | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz, London
HT reviewer Nawaid Anjum picks his favourite reads of 2020
Portrayals of the fearful uncertainty of life: a reimagining of the death of William Shakespeare’s son, and a book that delves deep into the family dynamic
Updated on Dec 19, 2020 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
US closer to Covid-19 vaccine as cases surge again
Pfizer has said its vaccines, which have to be stored and transported at extremely low temperatures, will be ready to ship from storage facilities with 24 hours of getting the formal approval.
Updated on Dec 11, 2020 06:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
William Shakespeare among first to get Covid-19 vaccine in UK
‘Bill’ William Shakespeare, 81, received the vaccine in the University Hospital in Coventry in the Midlands, not far from Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of the better-known Bard of Avon.
Updated on Dec 08, 2020 04:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
The show must go on: Students put a spin on Romeo and Juliet amid coronavirus pandemic
“Parting is such sweet sorrow” — especially for a theater troupe hoping to stage a live performance of “Romeo & Juliet” in the middle of a pandemic that has closed schools and required social distancing. The solution, at least for high school students in the Boston suburb of Westwood? Make a movie version instead.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 09:10 PM IST
Westwood, Massachusetts | Associated Press| Posted by: Alfea Jamal
Jadavpur University compiling Bengal adaptations of Shakespeare’s works
The ‘Shakespeare in Bengal’ project, launched in 2014 -15, is being supported by the University Grants Commission, she said.
Updated on Nov 19, 2020 12:39 PM IST
Kolkata | Press Trust of India| Posted by Akhilesh Nagari
Witerati: Who moved my chilli cheese!
While EU lawmakers battled it out about ‘veggie burger’ labels, the India Fasting narrative in pandemic’s #Pujo and #Navratri season scripted its own doughs and don’ts
Published on Oct 24, 2020 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Chetna Keer
UP Board releases curtailed curriculum; Parsai’s prose, Shakespeare’s play omitted
The details have been uploaded on https://upmsp.edu.in/ late Monday night for the benefit of the students enrolled in the over 28,000 affiliated schools across the state, said officials.
Updated on Jul 21, 2020 08:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Prayagraj | K Sandeep Kumar
HT Brunch Father’s Day Cover Story: Rishi Kapoor’s superhero avatar
On Father’s Day, daughter Riddhima Kapoor pays a tribute to her dad
Updated on Jun 21, 2020 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Riddhima Kapoor Sahni
Shakespeare Day 2020: Lesser-known facts, famous quotes by the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare
One of the most prolific and iconic writers in the English language and also the world’s greatest dramatist, William Shakespeare was born this day in 1564. UNESCO also marked this day as World Book and Copyright Day.
Updated on Apr 23, 2020 09:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
Humour: The great indoors
There’s so much to do when nothing’s going on
Updated on Apr 12, 2020 02:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rehana Munir
Famous works and quotes by Jules Verne, author of Around The World In Eighty Days and others
A visionary who wrote about submarines when none existed in his 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne is often referred to as the father of science fiction.
Updated on Mar 24, 2020 05:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | HT Correspondent
This Day That Year: ‘Beware the Ides of March’ - Yuvraj Singh’s double act stops Aussie juggernaut
Warning bells rang for the great Australian team of the first decade of the 2000s, when they faced an in form Indian team in the quarter-finals of the ICC World Cup in Ahmedabad on March 24, 2011.
Mumbai school events: Young Shakespeare fans take over the stage
Helen O’Grady International India, the EduDrama Academy recently organised ‘Shakespeare Slam – The Battle of the Bard,’ an inter-school Shakespeare drama competition at St. Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra. The competition is rolled out to schools across India every year, under the guidance of Arpita Mittal, CEO, Helen O’Grady International India.
Published on Feb 12, 2020 11:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Young Shakespeare fans take over the stage
Four schools competed by presenting some of William Shakespeare’s popular plays, directed and performed entirely by the students, for the coveted Shakespeare Slam Championship.
Updated on Feb 12, 2020 03:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Virginia Woolf 138th Birth Anniversary: Why you should read Virginia Woolf; quotes by the author for every 21st-century feminist
Virginia Woolf’s quotes stand true most in our times. Here are a few that evoke feminist pride and show what a visionary this celebrated author and important voice was in literary history.
Updated on Jan 25, 2020 08:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
World book night
Column- Piyush Jha talks about a new way to celebrate reading and books
Updated on Jan 09, 2020 12:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Piyush Jha
Emma Watson, Kristen Stewart star in vintage-style, Romeo and Juliet-inspired 2020 calendar. See pics
First released in the 1960s, the Pirelli calendar, which has a limited publication run and is gifted to clients of the Italian tyre maker, has moved away from scantily-dressed models to more artistic themes in recent years.
Updated on Dec 04, 2019 02:20 PM IST
VERONA, Italy | Reuters
A sculptor known for trying to redress history through her art is crafting first women’s statue for New York’s Central Park
Of the 23 statues of historical figures in the 840-acre, 166-year-old public park, none honours actual women. There are statues of three female fictional characters: Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose and William Shakespeare’s Juliet, who appears with Romeo.
Updated on Nov 22, 2019 03:11 PM IST
Ridgefield, Conn. | Associated Press
Deep sleep can rewire stress and anxiety
In William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Macbeth, he had referred to sleep as the “balm of hurt minds”.
Updated on Nov 15, 2019 09:50 AM IST
Washington D.C. | Asian News International
US woman says bonded with Boris Johnson over Shakespeare, mum on relationship query
The Sunday Times has reported that when Johnson was mayor he failed to declare close personal links to Arcuri, who received thousands of pounds in public business funding and places on official trade trips.
Updated on Oct 07, 2019 01:51 PM IST
London | Reuters
Mime act brings the tempest to life
The play relied only on visual elements and music to narrate the story.
Updated on Oct 04, 2019 03:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Hindi Diwas: Chandrapakash Dwivedi, Gaurav Solanki explore why Hindi literature is missing from Bollywood
On Hindi Diwas 2019, filmmaker Chandraprakash Dwivedi, writer Gaurav Solanki and actor Pankaj Tripathi talk about the missing Hindi literature from Bollywood films.
Updated on Sep 14, 2019 03:55 PM IST
Press Trust of India | HT Correspondent
Eric Cantona, former Manchester United great says humans ‘will become eternal’ in perplexing UEFA award acceptance speech
Dressed in a red shirt and grey cap, Cantona started off by invoking William Shakespeare’s King Lear: “As flies to wanton boys, we are for the gods.”
Updated on Aug 30, 2019 07:18 PM IST
Monaco | Associated Press
‘Most flattering image on WhatsApp today’: Tharoor on his ‘Shakespeare’ photo
Shashi Tharoor shared a photo doing the rounds on social media in which somebody had morphed his face to resemble that of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare!
Updated on Aug 11, 2019 08:41 AM IST
New Delhi | Asian News International
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