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...Rona Munro’s James Plays have been heralded as Scotland’s answer to Shakespeare’s histories: seven works, six staged so far, spanning two centuries of the house of Stuart, from the ascension of James I in...
...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...(Minus the whirling camerawork and modern slang, it’s all maybe not that far from Shakespeare’s classical gender-swap comedies.)...
...Also, William Shakespeare’s birthday celebrated Wednesday North Macedonia: presidential election first round UK: former Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson appears in court in Newry...
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...And once reunited, in a balcony scene almost as famous as Shakespeare’s, they are unstoppable, locked once more in a toxic tango....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...Henry V....
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...When Shakespeare prudently pilloried Richard II and praised usurper Henry IV two centuries later, it reflected a reality. The Plantagenet monarch Richard was a spendthrift....
...Joan of Arc is offering a note of thanks to the people who are scattered around Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank in rehearsal....
...Although he had enrolled at Harvard Business School at the insistence of his father, his true passions were Shakespeare and modern art....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...“I don’t consciously model myself on Henry V,” he laughs, adding that the answer lies in the pluralism of the plays and the fact that they demand true ensemble playing (Doran begins the rehearsal process...
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...It was on that campaign he met Stephan Shakespeare, with whom he went on to found polling company YouGov in 2000, floating the business on the stock market five years later....
...In Max Webster’s pulsating modern-dress staging of Shakespeare’s Henry V, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow) at the helm, it becomes a piece about a leader gradually warped by power and calloused...
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