Three of the seven who make up the Shakespeare Club – now guzzling peanuts and cheap red wine – have worked for newspapers. This club was established through the persistence of a former venture capitalist who used to go to Shakespeare plays with his college friends. When it became the tradition to have a pizza afterwards, to hash over what they’d just seen, the “Shakespeare Club” began. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Lydia Wilson and Kathy Wilder as Anne Hathaway, William Shakespeare, Susannah Shakespeare and Judith Shakespeare in Branagh’s 2018 film All Is True. This is an edited extract from Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption, published by Picador on 3 September (£14.99).

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2020 15:56 UTC