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  1. Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare Beyond London

    5/5Siobhan Keenan on the importance of touring to Shakespeare and the actors in his plays.

  2. Shakespeare 400: Freedom of Speech or 'Nothing' - King Lear and Contemporary India

    4/5Preti Taneja considers Shakespeare's King Lear as a lens through which to view India today

  3. Shakespeare 400: Wolf All? - Shakespeare and Food in Renaissance England

    3/5Joan Fitzpatrick explains her new research on what people ate in Shakepeare's England.

  4. Shakespeare 400: Undiscovered Countries - Shakespeare and the Nation

    2/5James Loxley explores what Shakespeare's plays say about questions of national identity.

  5. Shakespeare 400: Shakespeare and the Suffragettes

    1/5How Shakespeare's heroines helped transform Victorian schoolgirls into Edwardian activists