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...
Tag: Hamlet
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.
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*
(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!
A Post About That One Time the Country was Ruled by a Zombie Queen, or, Elizabeth’s BDE (Big Dead Energy)
How powerful a ruler was Queen Elizabeth I? Not even the inconvenience of being dead could prevent her from ordering people around. Or from exploding. In the month between her death and her funeral, the late Queen flaunted Big Dead Energy like no one else...
“Funeral Baked Meats”: Cannibalism and Corpse Medicine in “Hamlet”
In "Hamlet," Shakespeare’s depiction of man-eating in forces his audience to confront their own unsavoury distinctions between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” forms of cannibalism...
Shakespeare and the Living Dead
A summary of my PhD thesis: featuring ghosts, gore, and a spooky review of Michael Boyd's 2011 "Macbeth"...
