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‘Our revels now are ended’ Clip from The Tempest - RSC | Marquee TV

A E Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life, this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater; a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde…

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The Invention of Love

Hampstead Theatre

Was Shakespeare an instinctive ‘conservative’ or, rather, gently subversive? How collaborative was he? Did he add a line to Hamlet in order to accommodate his ageing and increasingly chubby principal actor, Richard Burbage? Did he suffer from insomnia and experience sexual jealousy?

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Simon Russell Beale

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Dec 4, 2024 - Jan 25, 2025

The Invention of Love · Hampstead Theatre

Sep 8, 2024

An Evening With Simon Russell Beale · Cambridge Arts Theatre

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