Shakespeare’s Globe box office

Fact of the day: the Royal Shakespeare Company earned £61.3 million last year, down from £62.6 million in 2012/13.

Fact of the day: The Society of London Theatre’s TKTS ticket booth in Leicester Square sold 58 per cent more tickets in the week ending 30 July than in the previous week.

Quote of the month: “Most of Shakespeare’s heroes and heroines are motherless.”

Quote of the month: “When we reflect upon the works of William Shakespeare it is of course an amazement to consider that one man could have produced such a sumptuous, wise, varied,…