Naseeruddin Shah is spending time by doing what he likes the most — catching up on the plays of William Shakespeare. The veteran actor says he can stay indoors for days on end. He has been devouring classics and writing.

Naseer is also helping in the household chores much to wife Ratna Pathak Shah's surprise. He had stopped stepping into the kitchen after marriage decades ago. Now, he is brushing up on his rusty cooking skills.

"I am one of those people who can stay at home and enjoy a lot of indoor. I am watching movies, reading books. I have started helping in the kitchen that I kind of stopped after marriage. I did not cook for a long time. I am reading a couple of plays of Shakespeare to my son. We are spending quality time," the veteran actor told IANS.

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Nelson Mandela once said, “Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us.” This year, the bard is saying it in 37 languages. Globe to Globe, a six-week festival starting on April 21 at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, presents all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, each by a different international theatre company. But what is lost in translation? Can other countries really do Shakespeare better than Britain? And how do the plays relate to the world today? Jan Dalley is joined by Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe; Professor Robert Grant, formerly of Glasgow University; and Peter Aspden, the FT’s arts writer. Roger Granville, producer of the Dari Persian "The Comedy of Errors" from Kabul, joins down the line. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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Thanks to its links to Shakespeare and his players that were until recently a well kept secret, a deprived suburb of Liverpool is to house a new playhouse. Local investors have high hopes that it will woo some of the tourists that flock to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Andy Bounds went to Prescot to speak to some of the project's supporters.

Contributors: Andy Bounds, Enterprise editor and North of England correspondent. Producers: Fiona Symon and Persis Love

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The film version of Downton Abbey showed the morally upright Earl of Grantham - portrayed by Hugh Bonneville - resplendent in the uniform of the Lord-Lieutenant of Yorkshire.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Accustomed to a 300-room stately pile while playing Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, Michelle Dockery has splashed out on her own London property.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The Carnarvons have gone out of their way to try to find a solution - but the road to Downton has hit a few bumps.

Prince Charles has added a 'huge amount of value' to the brand of Emma Willis since wearing the 'beautiful shirts and boxer shorts'. Sales have been booming since he started coming to the tailor, five years ago.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: First the Queen was told that her beloved Royal Ascot would take place behind closed doors; now the Royal Family has suffered another sporting blow.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: There are few spots as serene or exclusive in London as the Hurlingham Club, where the Duchess of Cambridge takes Prince George for tennis lessons.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has learned the hard way that even the best intentions can be woefully misconstrued. She made a sombre visit to France's capital this week to pay her respects.

Hundreds of new homes are to be built on a stud farm near Newmarket, Sebastian Shakespeare has the latest including what's going on with the Archer's actors and what Mumford & Sons are using for loo roll.

I can disclose that the company behind it, Digital Tribe Holdings - which Clarkson set up with his co-hosts Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond and James May, - lost £6.7 million last year.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: William Cash was snubbed by his sister Laetitia, who boycotted the launch of his memoir Restoration Heart at the Pall Mall Gallery, London

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lissom film star Keira Knightley has mixed feelings about growing old. She says: 'I find grey hairs and I think, "Oh my god I'm going to dye it!"'

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: It was a double celebration for Sarah, Duchess of York, on Prince Andrew's 60th birthday. Earlier in the day she became a great-aunt.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Soho Farmhouse, the £1,650-a-year very exclusive private members' club set in 120 Oxfordshire acres is opening its doors to an army of tent dwellers.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Fergie, who has just launched her own YouTube channel, 'Storytime With Fergie And Friends', declines to comment on the company's affairs.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Catherine Walker's husband Said Cyrus disclosed that he still has a wardrobe full of her clothes. Pictured: Diana and Catherine Walker.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: She led an extraordinary life, marrying two earls and a count - and, along the way, became stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Princess Diana's niece chatted avidly to Cold Feet star James Nesbitt, 54, at the Walpole British Luxury Awards at The Dorchester.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Entrepreneur India, 52, demonstrated this while trying to put on a pair of knee-length black boots before heading out to a dinner in New York.

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson suggested the Bard would have been pro-EU as he ramped up pressure on Jeremy Corbyn.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Cameron isn't the only one who has been coining it since leaving Downing Street. So, too, has his former Tory Party chair Andrew Feldman.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Cameron's claims about Heatherdown, the school he attended in Ascot, have caused dismay and anger among his fellow Old Heatherdonians.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: What lockdown? London's social scene might have been put on the backburner, but its movers and shakers are refusing to let the fun come to an end.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: He's been married three times, imprisoned in both the U.S. and Australia, deported from Canada and exposed as a bigamist in the High Court in London.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: First the Queen was told that her beloved Royal Ascot would take place behind closed doors; now the Royal Family has suffered another sporting blow.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: The 82-year-old painter is convinced that smoking helps protect against coronavirus. And he's written a letter to the Daily Mail to argue his case.

The Daily Mail's Sebastian Shakespeare discusses pleas for Boris Johnson's speedy recovery, last wishes with Dame Olivia de Havilland, and why Mary Beard is not about to lose her Marbles.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: He's the Old Etonian former SAS officer who achieved ­notoriety as leader of the so-called failed 'Wonga' coup.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: According to Laura, Julian Fellowes told her: 'Don't try and destroy an image that people have of you, that they enjoy.'

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: I can disclose that Andrew Bedford, the 15th Duke, his wife, Louise, and their children have been obliged to leave Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Tom Daley's knitting hobby, which he took up to deal with self-isolation, is not going down too well with his husband, film producer Dustin Lance Black.