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3-Minute Reads // Medieval Ghostbusters and The Gast of Gy
One of my favourite ghost stories that I came across while researching my undead-themed PhD thesis. Don’t expect too much in terms of in-depth analysis; this is all about the spooky thrills…! *insert thunder-clap here*
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(A Couple of Reasons Why) The “Hamlet” Bad Quarto is Fantastic and Deserves More Love
Critics are starting to come around to the idea that the “Bad Quarto” of “Hamlet” may have something worthwhile to offer after all – and it’s a good thing too!
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3-Minute Reads // “Give me your hand”: Lady Macbeth’s dying wish
LADY MACBETHHere’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh![…]Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s grave. DOCTOREven so? LADY MACBETHTo bed, to bed. There’s knocking at […]
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Review: “Tromeo and Juliet” (1997), dir. Lloyd Kaufman
Tromeo and Juliet is a schlock horror adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that, in its own distasteful way, possesses much more charm and intelligence than one might expect from a film which transforms Juliet into a cow-monster. In this review, I sift through the grotesque humour and terrible jokes in order to uncover some interesting new perspectives on a well-studied tragedy.
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3-Minute Reads // Domesticity at the end of the world in the National Theatre’s “Macbeth”, dir. Rufus Norris
In the concrete and plastic wasteland of Rufus Norris’ 2018 “Macbeth”, the most insignificant of gestures can offer a new perspective on a well-known marriage…
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