Shakespeare In Italy Associate Director Bill Alexander continues his new series of blogs which now focus on rehearsing particular plays. This is the second part of his spotlight on 'Twelfth Night': Finding Ilyria' - Embracing Elizabethans. In his next blog to follow, Bill will examine music in the play and its impact on approach to rehearsals for directors and actors. 

Today we are starting Part Two of Bill Alexander’s blogs on Rehearsing Shakespeare with 'Twelfth Night: Finding Illyria'. 

the next in our series celebrating women writers on our sharing shakespeare online platform 

The stories about people in Italy entertaining one another during a period of quarantine from the Black Death inspired not only Shakespeare but young writer Rebekah King, who we have teamed up with to launch our competition for short dramas written in the style of the Decameron collection but in a modern setting.