Tag: Julius Caesar

• ‘Fake news!’: Julius Caesar and the “alternative facts” of Shakespeare’s Rome

  

  Friends, readers, countrymen – lend me your ears! In what follows I will attempt to link the tragedy of Julius Caesar to: a grammar school education and rhetorical devices, the death of Queen Elizabeth, the lives of a penniless troupe of actors, early modern medical theory, and tenuous references to Donald Trump’s “alternative facts”. Let’s…

  James Alsop

  Aug 29, 2018

  A-Level texts, Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  alternative facts, donald trump, et tu brute, fake news, Julius Caesar, lecture, mark antony, rhetoric, Shakespeare

• Shakespeare and the Living Dead

  

  A summary of my PhD thesis: featuring ghosts, gore, and a spooky review of Michael Boyd’s 2011 “Macbeth”…

  James Alsop

  Jul 28, 2018

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  Drama, Duchess of Malfi, Early Modern, Ghosts, Hamlet, James Alsop, John Webster, Julius Caesar, Living Death, Macbeth, Michael Boyd, Performance, Philip Schwyzer, Reformation, Shakespeare, Theatre, Witches, Zombies