Staging Shakespearean dissent: Plays that protest,provoke and slip by the censors

Inside Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London

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Rising star jemimah steinfeld 8

When the show doesn’t go on jan fox 12

The Bard meets Bollywood suhrith parthasarathy, plus aparna sen 18

Lifting the curtain on Zimbabwe elizabeth zaza muchemwa 22

Lend me your ears claire rigby interviews roberto alvim 25

Plays, protests and the censor’s pencil simon callow 30

The play’s the thing kathleen e mcluskie 34

Morals made to measure tom holland 36

Stripsearch cartoon martin rowson 38

The writer of our discontent györgy spiró 40

Star-crossed actors preti taneja 44

When the Dream upset the regime kaya genç 48

Say no moor natasha joseph interviews dame janet suzman 52