Discovering Wales’ Roman Past
Wales was the furthest outpost of the Roman Empire and in AD 75, the fortress of Isca Augusta was built at Caerleon. This was one of only three permanent fortresses in Roman Britain and the remains on ...
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A Roman bloodbath at the Barbican
Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s Titus Andronicus at Barbican Theatre London EC2 Titus Andronicus, the least performed of all Shakespeare’s plays, dismissed by Ben Jonson as “blood and thunder ...
The RSC’s Roman Season continues
Robert Tanitch review RSC’s Julius Caesar at Barbican Theatre, London WC1 Despite everybody knowing what happened on the Ides of March, it doesn’t spoil the enjoyment of the play one bit. It could be ...
Beware the Ides of March
Thanks to Shakespeare the stark warning of the soothsayer, “Beware the ides of March,” means that people always remember March 15 and it is forever imbued with a sense of foreboding. The I ...