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3-Minute Reads, Essays

3-Minute Reads // Antonio’s Revenge: a peek into Marston’s metatheatrical closet…

Feb 18, 2019Jul 20, 2019 James Alsop

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...

Tagged antonio's revenge, death, Ghosts, Hamlet, john marston, Living Death, metatheatre, Shakespeare, tragedyLeave a comment
Essays, Reviews

Self-harm as spectacle in “Measure for Measure” (Donmar Warehouse, 2018)

Feb 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019 James Alsop

Sometimes a play can be so callous, so poorly-judged, so utterly tone-deaf that one isn't sure whether to laugh or cry. On this occasion, however, my mind is rather made up.

Tagged donmar warehouse, Early Modern, helena wilson, josie rourke, measure for measure, mental health, Shakespeare, teaching, trigger warningLeave a comment
Essays, Reviews

Fatherly and Fearsome: the Ghost in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)

Dec 2, 2018Feb 5, 2019 James Alsop

Does Branagh's "Hamlet" offer audiences the most complete and compelling version of the Ghost to be put to film. I think so.

Tagged 1996 hamlet, brian blessed, franco zeffirelli, Hamlet, kenneth branagh, laurence olivier, movie, Old Hamlet, paul scofield, Shakespeare, spooky spookyLeave a comment
Essays

Fashioning Death: Anne Boleyn, James French, and the Last Dying Speech

Oct 30, 2018Nov 20, 2018 James Alsop

From Anne Boleyn to a 20th Century murderer from Oklahoma, it seems that last dying speeches are all the fashion...

Tagged anne boleyn, edmund spenser, faerie queene, gallows humour, james french, last dying speeches, scaffold, self-fashioning, stephen greenblatt1 Comment
Education, Essays

“I never got that letter”: writing “Curley’s wife”

Oct 25, 2018Oct 30, 2018 James Alsop

That lower-case "w" in "Curley's wife" stands for some terrible, terrible things. It would be nice to capitalise it, to give it the appearance of a name, to treat it as a title rather than as an insult. But we can't...

Tagged curley's wife, Education, GCSE, John Steinbeck, novel, of mice and men, teachingLeave a comment

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