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Shakespeare Saturday: Othello

October 22, 2016

And what’s he then that says I play the villain? Ah Othello. In many ways, this is one of the most problematic of Shakespeare’s plays, especially for the modern audiences and directors – a tale about race, otherness, jealousy, spousal violence, with one of the most villainous villains in all of Shakespeare, and a checkered … More Shakespeare Saturday: Othello

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Shakespeare Saturday: Measure for Measure

October 15, 2016

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall Measure for Measure is another problem play – a dark comedy that leaves something of a bitter taste in one’s mouth. It’s a morality play, a study on human nature, and perhaps also a satire on the corrupting effect of power and the hypocrisies of the … More Shakespeare Saturday: Measure for Measure

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Shakespeare Saturday: Troilus and Cressida

October 8, 2016

All the argument is a cuckold and a whore Troilus and Cressida falls in many categories among Shakespeare’s plays – it’s a Roman history (yes, I know it’s set in the Greek world), it’s a tragedy, it’s a comedy. It is, in short, a problem play, it’s tragic elements sullied by both the uneasy events … More Shakespeare Saturday: Troilus and Cressida

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Shakespeare Saturday: Twelfth Night

October 1, 2016

Journeys end in lovers meeting Twelfth Night is – would you believe it? – Shakespeare’s last true comedy. The later comedic plays tend to be described as “problem plays” – although they traditionall are grouped with the comedies, they tend to have elements that make them hard to classify as purely such. Twelfth Nihgt has … More Shakespeare Saturday: Twelfth Night

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Shakespeare Saturday: Hamlet

September 24, 2016

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Here we have it. The greatest play ever written. The single most famous line Shakespeare ever wrote. The most iconic and mistaken image in the history of theatre. Nothing is more recognisable as Shakespeare than Hamlet, and nothing is … More Shakespeare Saturday: Hamlet

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Shakespeare Saturday: As you like it

September 17, 2016

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. As You Like It is often considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies – if not the best. It is certainly important enough to have given name to the series of scholarly editions of his plays, The Arden Shakespeare … More Shakespeare Saturday: As you like it

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Shakespeare Saturday: Julius Caesar

September 10, 2016

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. This is one of the several Roman plays Shakespeare wrote, and although it is an independent work in all essentials, it does loosely connect to his later play Anthony and Cleopatra. Julius Caesar is the axial character in this play, but he is … More Shakespeare Saturday: Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare Saturday: Henry V

September 3, 2016

Can this cockpit hold, the vasty fields of France? Henry V is the last play of the second tetralogy and the last pure history play Shakespeare wrote. Richard III had brought, chronologically, the story of the Plantagenet dynasty to an end, and Henry V was written during the final years of Elizabeth I’s reign. While … More Shakespeare Saturday: Henry V

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Shakespeare Saturday: Much ado about nothing

August 27, 2016

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. Confession: for the first time ever, I forgot that I’m supposed to be doing a post today. Hence today’s post has been put together with the Oxford Shakespeare, the Amazon rental of the Joss Whedon adaptation and my … More Shakespeare Saturday: Much ado about nothing

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Shakespeare Saturday: King Henry IV, Part 2

August 20, 2016

I confess this blog has been a bit on the back burner over the last few weeks – that’s what sort of happens on holidays. Good intentions that never never go far. I have detailed notes and character lists of the earlier plays, little sticky notes with additional notes on them, but nothing of the … More Shakespeare Saturday: King Henry IV, Part 2

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