Category: Shakespeare + E-M Drama
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3-Minute Reads // Antonio’s Revenge: a peek into Marston’s metatheatrical closet…
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…
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Self-harm as spectacle in “Measure for Measure” (Donmar Warehouse, 2018)
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.
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Fatherly and Fearsome: the Ghost in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)
Does Branagh’s “Hamlet” offer audiences the most complete and compelling version of the Ghost to be put to film. I think so.
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Fashioning Death: Anne Boleyn, James French, and the Last Dying Speech
From Anne Boleyn to a 20th Century murderer from Oklahoma, it seems that last dying speeches are all the fashion…
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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!
Writus Andronicus 