Okay, let’s get the bold claim out there: this is Shakespeare’s most perfectly…
This is one of the Shakespeare plays that I was completely unfamiliar with before beginning this project, never having read it, let alone taught it. Probably written around 1595–6 (although there’s…
It’s amusing that in the face of frequent moral panics about teen behaviour over the past…
In her wonderful overview of all of Shakespeare’s plays, Shakespeare After All, Marjorie…
Important issues first: I had a discussion with my wife about the apostrophes in the title in this play, as it seems ambiguous at best how many there should be and in which words they should be located. This has apparently been a longstanding issue, as it…
Just imagine if David Simon, the brilliant screenwriter who gave us The Wire, possibly the greatest telvision series ever written — a gritty examination of the nexus between criminals, police, politicians and education in Baltimore — had followed it up with his new…
