"Cardiff Shakespeare Readers" is a group for people to get together and experience ALL the great playwright's works as they were intended - spoken aloud!

"Puritans may be a threat but one way to deal with something you find nauseatingly objectionable is to make fun of it. Elizabethan audiences arguably would have loved seeing Malvolio, a party-pooper, being totally embarrassed and degraded. Shakespeare puts a sting in the tail when he gives Malvolio his parting shot: I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you’. Within forty years, events in England would prove him right."

For full script of Stephen Whitehead's illuminating introduction to Twelfth Night click here.

CSR read Twelfth Night on 10th January 2010.

Next reading: Twelfth Night,

Sunday Feb 28th 2010, 6.30pm, MEDIA POINT, Chapter, Cardiff.

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SHAKESPEARE AND THE WELSH

Cardiff Shakespeare Readers has spent some time discussing the references to Wales in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and it is clear that Shakespeare features some of the most memorable depictions of Welsh persons and locations to be found in literature. Notable examples are featured in Henry IV part 1, Cymbeline, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Richard III, Richard II, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. For further information regarding Shakespeare and the Welsh:

Shakespeare and the Welsh

Midsummer Night's Dream and Wales

Midsummer Night's Dream and Clydach / Fairy Glen