Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Henry VIII?
The play that burned down the Globe theatre in 1613, after a stage cannon ignited the thatch, is a potent farewell to this series, writes Michael Billington
November 2010
Cardenio – review
Is this Shakespeare's lost play? It's almost too full of verbal echoes to be by the man himself and has a Middletonian macabre climax, writes Michael Billington
May 2010
Henry VIII
Shakespeare's Globe, London Puppets and politics make for a shaky marriage in this otherwise fiery Henry VIII, writes Michael Billington
May 2004
Shakespeare's midlife crisis
Four hundred years ago today, our greatest playwright turned 40. He was already past it. Gary Taylor reports on the Bard's years as a has-been.
January 2004
The Tamer Tamed
Queen's, London
April 2003
The shrew must go on - and on
Susannah Clapp: Shakespeare's worst play and its lesser known sequel prove an inspired coupling at Stratford.
The Taming of the Shrew / The Tamer Tamed
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Theatre
The antidote to Shakespeare
Even the Jacobeans had a problem with The Taming of the Shrew. So one of them wrote a fiery sequel - in which the women bite back. Gregory Doran on John Fletcher.
