![]() ![]() ![]() That was the highlight of the film for my boys, and that familiar special rush of excited whispering went all around the auditorium The cinema was full of school kids that afternoon and when Lady Macbeth, played by the beautiful actress, Francesca Annis, came on in her sleepwalking scene, straight from her bed, she was naked. I took my O level group – all boys – to the cinema to see it. When it comes to Shakespeare nudity is nothing new at all, and Shakespeare, ages in advance of all of us in the way his mind worked, sometimes wove nudity into his texts as vital thematic elements.Ī long time ago, when Roman Polanski’s Macbeth came out I was an English teacher in a school in Kent, England. We have seen in the past nude newsreaders and many nude performances on the stage. It’s interesting in this age of nudity and near nudity in films and television, on beaches and other public places, that this should make headlines in a place like New York. They then drop their kimonos and begin their reading, which includes passages from Shakespeare. I read an article recently about a literature reading in Greenwich, New York, by a group going by the name of ‘Naked Girls Reading.’ The women come onstage in kimonos, led by the delightfully named Nasty Canasta and Gal Friday. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]()
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