Tag: hamlet at vatican

14th April 2016

Avatar photo

by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Shakespeare at the Vatican: family, mercy and a red hat

How could the British embassy to the Holy See contribute to the Shakespeare 400th anniversary this year? There is an extraordinary programme of official events organised under the Shakespeare Lives banner, but the Vatican was not an obvious element. And although the Royal Shakespeare Company had performed Shakespearean excerpts before Pope Paul VI in 1964, the […]

Read more on Shakespeare at the Vatican: family, mercy and a red hat | Reply (7)