William Shakespeare
Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England edited by David McInnis and Matthew Steggle
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
If Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth seems the most prescient, apposite to a species rapidly running out of world. Upon hearing of the Witches’ prophecy, and resolving her course with chilling alacrity, Lady Macbeth invokes the nether realm of her potentialities:
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That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty.
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, argument, controversy edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells
Over the past ten years, Melbourne and Sydney have experienced a revolution in the aesthetics of theatre – perhaps only the second major one since 1945. After World War II, the British helped to get us back on our cultural feet, the high point being the establishment of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1954. Along came a bunch of Poms or Pommie-mi ...
Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Brian Boyd
With its opening montage of colliding images – a knife being drawn across a whetstone, television footage of massed crowds, milling soldiers in combat fatigues, politicians alighting from cars, with linking television intertitles and an underlying soundtrack of pulsating drums – Ralph Fiennes’s and John Logan’s take on Coriolanus immediately establishes its connections to contemporary events.
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