For a Senecan-styled tragedy of inordinate bloodshed, things work out remarkably well for the characters who survive John Marston’s 1602 Antonio’s Revenge...
Category: 3-Minute Reads
The List ~ a poem
A couple of years ago, I overheard a conversation between a group of boys at the student bar. They were, as young men are prone to do in packs, discussing women - specifically, the various reasons why they'd dumped their exes. Some of these reasons were very silly indeed...
3-Minute Reads // Pranksters, Poltergeists, and Pain de Campagne (Some More Ghost Stories)
Now that the nights are drawing in, I thought I'd share a few more of the spooky (and occasionally hilarious) shenanigans of days past that I came across while researching. Enjoy!
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*
3-Minute Reads // “Give me your hand”: Lady Macbeth’s dying wish
LADY MACBETH Here’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. DOCTOR Even so? LADY MACBETH To bed,… Continue reading 3-Minute Reads // “Give me your hand”: Lady Macbeth’s dying wish
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...
3-Minute Reads // “Exercises in ink”: Scattered identity in “The Waves”
In Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" the search for identity is fraught with challenges. For Louis, the quest to retain a sense of his true "self" becomes an exercise in pain. But perhaps the pain is a necessary step...
