Sunday Morning! “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
While it’s tempting to see “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare as a gentle story about forgiveness, love, and magic, its central protagonist makes that interpretation very difficult.
Tagged: Shakespeare
Morning Ed: Shakespeare {2016.04.24.Su}
The important questions, like whether he actually wrote his plays and whether he would favor or oppose #Brexit.
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
Peter Jackson, JJ Abrams, and The Sterility of Fanboy Criticism
Fanboy Criticism is a growing form of art criticism that makes the oddest of demands from today’s artists:
The complete cessation of the artistic impulse.
Much Ado about a Public Shaming
In his film version of Much Ado about Nothing, Joss Whedon highlights the social context that makes it acceptable for Claudio to shame Hero before her father and the wedding guests. There’s something rotten in the patriarchy of Messina.
