Tag: Zombies

• 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…

  James Alsop

  Aug 7, 2018

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  BDE, Big Death Energy, carol rutter, Catherine Loomis, death, Elizabeth Southwell, Explosions, giovanni scammelli, Hamlet, Living Death, Performance, queen elizabeth I, time, w, westminster, william shakespeare, Zombies

• “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…

  James Alsop

  Jul 29, 2018

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  baked meats, bakhtin, cannibalism, cannibals, Catholicism, colonialism, corpse medicine, funeral, Hamlet, James Alsop, louise noble, medical cannibalism, michel de montaigne, peggy sanday reeves, Philip Schwyzer, raymond rice, richard sugg, robert appelbaum, robert stam, stephen greenblatt, titus andronicus, william arens, william shakespeare, Zombies

• 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