Character Arcs
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The Arc of Queen ✟ Margaret
Follow Margaret from Anjou to England through the Fifth Folio. From courtly...
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The Arc of Nell 🐾 Quickly
Follow Nell Quickly through the Fifth Folio, as she weaves her way...
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The Arc of Thomas ✟ Cromwell
Follow the character arc of Thomas Lord Cromwell through the Fifth Folio,...
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The Arc of Richard of Gloster ✟ King Richard III
Follow the character arc of Richard of Glocester through the Fifth Folio,...
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The Arc of Prince Hal ✟ King Henrie V
Follow the ultimate character arc, the evolution of a tavern's prince into...
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The Arc of Jupiter
Jupiter's thunderclap slaps across the canon. He's given a chance to speak...
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The Arc of Augustus ⚱️ Caesar
Follow Augustus Caesar's rise from a political ingénue through the Fifth Folio....
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The Arc of Hipolita
Follow Amazonian Hippolyta through the Fifth Folio, with direct links to the...
Interpretations
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Orson Welles
1915 May 6thKenosha, WisconsinDirector and Actor On Hamlet's Ghost: Shakespeare played it, and...
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Tom Hiddleston
1981 February 9LondonActor One is so aware of the size of the...
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Denzel Washington
1954 December 28Mount Vernon, New YorkActor I went to school a thousand...
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Helen Mirren
1945 July 26thHammersmith, LondonActor The first time in fact I remember seeing drama...
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Giuseppe Verdi
1813 October 9thLe Roncole, ItalyMaestro He is a favorite poet of mine,...
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Franco Zeffirelli
1923 February 12thFlorence, ItalyDirector and Designer [Otello] is one of the greatest...
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Edwin Booth
1833 November 13thBel Air, MarylandActor, Manager But Nature cast me for the...
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John Gielgud
14 April 1904South Kensington, LondonActor and Director Style is knowing who you...
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Ian Richardson
1934 April 7thEdinburgh, ScotlandActor I took a scunner against theatre, and...
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David Tennant
1971 April 18thBathgate, ScotlandActor .. modern and conversational and anarchic and inspirational .. Why...
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Akira Kurosawa
1910 March 23rdShinagawa, TokyoDirector After finishing Rashomon I wanted to do something with...
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Eugène Delacroix
1798 April 26thSaint-Maurice, FranceArtist He has almost made them all that they...
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Benedict Cumberbatch
1976 July 19Hammersmith, LondonActor What made me jump now? Age, life experience most...
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James Mason
1909 May 15thHuddersfield, EnglandActor My family were not movie-goers, but I got...
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Diana Rigg
1938 July 20thDoncaster, EnglandActor Diana’s demeanor in real life was most unlike...
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Derek Jacobi
1938 October 22Leytonstone, Essex My parents first took me to theatre when I...
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Mark Rylance
1960 January 18Ashford, KentActor, Director [We] have a reasonable doubt that the...
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Leonard Bernstein
1918 August 25Lawrence, MassachusettsMaestro I could go through any Beethoven sonata, the...
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Folios
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Þe First Folio · 1623
These are our Fifth Folio editions in a precise First Folio sequence,...
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Þe Fourþ Folio · 1685
These are our Fifth Folio editions in a precise Fourth Folio sequence,...
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Þe Fifþ Folio · 2026
Each play has a webpage with: a revival of the complete text;...
