We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Shakespeare’s Ovidian erotic poem Venus and Adonis tells the tale of a goddess, Venus, who lusts fruitlessly after a human boy, Adonis. Although Venus relentlessly professes her love for the mortal youth, in reality […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a play of romantic comedy. It is one of Shakespeare’s more famous comedies and has been performed by many different actors. The production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy We decided to perform a piece of the supernatural having seen a production of a ‘Woman in Black.’ The texts that we used as the basis of our piece came from Hamlet, Othello, Romeo […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy There have been many film adaptations of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. These are widely varied, from the Japanese version ‘the Throne of Blood’ to the gangster version ‘Joe Macbeth’. Two of the best-known adaptations are, […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Reality can be broken down and portrayed in many different ways. Unless it is caused by ecology or some other source, everything in reality happens because of somebody’s imaginative creation. In A Separate Peace […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy It is understood that in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare; Hamlet, in his famous soliloquy in scene one of act three (“To be or not to be… “), is […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy * The average Shakespeare play had 30,000 words in it – more than the average person could need in their lifetime. He invented 1,700 new words – he turned verbs into nouns and nouns […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Macbeth is a tragedy set in Scotland. There are themes of supernatural powers, betrayal, murder and self-destruction in this play. It shows how Macbeth kills to become king and how Lady Macbeth’s passion and […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy I have studied the opening scene of Welles’ and Polanski’s videos and Shakespeare’s text in detail; through this, I have discovered that the two video versions are very different from each other’s. There are […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Conventionally, feminism has little correlation with Shakespearean comedies; however, Claire McEachern attempts to address this topic with some degree of success in her article published in the Shakespeare Quarterly entitled “Fathering Herself: A Source […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this essay, I am going to compare two different interpretations of Act 4 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, to see how different directors interpret a text and use different techniques to support their […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In Elizabethan times people paid great homage to the queen Elizabeth 1. During the 16th century there was great tension between parliament and the monarchy, and Elizabeth upset many Catholics, although she did restore […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy An earlier introductory note to some basic principles of literary interpretation (“On Scholarship and Literary Interpretation”), stressed that literary interpretation or literary criticism is, in many ways, an anarchic conversational activity with the practical […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Baz Luhrmann has a reputation of making excellent films and is known for his camera always moving. He likes doing close-ups, zooms and slow motion shots . As he has grown more secure of […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy One of them was Roman Polanskis. I didn’t think it was a very good version of Macbeth. I think this because it cuts out some of the original lines, it also showed you the […]