Shakespeare Lives in Illustration: Karrie Fransman
Illustrator and comic creator Karrie Fransman talks about her 'Tragedy' illustration, commissioned for our Shakespeare Lives campaign, and shares before and after sketches of her work.
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These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.
Shakespeare Lives in Illustration
As part of our Shakespeare Lives campaign, we commissioned three illustrators to visually interpret Shakespearean themes.
Andrew Dickson: Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
After his recent trip to Moscow as part of the UK–Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016, writer Andrew Dickson reflects on Russia's relationship with Shakespeare.
Word of the Day - Translating Shakespeare into Romanian
Romanian translators taking part in A Great Feast of Languages workshop in Cologne blog on the most challenging word(s) of the day, when translating texts from Shakespeare's plays.
Poem by Kaiser Haq in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 66
For our Sonnet Exchange event at Alchemy Festival this year, Bangladeshi poet Kaiser Haq was commissioned to write a response to Shakespeare. Kaiser chose to take as his starting point Sonnet 66, 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry'. His response is below.
Sonnets for the Horn of Africa - Part 4
Workshop Facilitator Dan Tsu blogs about his experience working on our Sonnets for the Horn of Africa project in Sudan.
Sonnets for the Horn of Africa - Part 3
Workshop facilitator Dan Boyden blogs about his recent trip to Sudan on our Sonnets for the Horn of Africa project.
Sonnets for the Horn of Africa - Part 2
Filmmaker David Fitzpatrick blogs about his experience filming in Khartoum, Sudan as part of our programme Sonnets for the Horn of Africa.
Sonnets for the Horn of Africa - Part 1
Spoken word poet Deanna Rodger was part of a creative team working with young artists from Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan on new poems inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets. In part one of our blog Sonnets for Africa, she reflects on her experiences in the first few days of the workshop.
Shakespeare Lives at the Hay Festival
There's an exciting programme celebrating Shakespeare at the Hay Festival from May 26- June 5 2016. The British Council is a global partner of Hay and we will be live tweeting from a number of events.
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