The life of Maggie O’Farrell: author of Hamnet
The incredible life story and inspirations for the author behind award-winning novel, Hamnet.
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The perils of division in DUCT’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
Isabelle Bylett explores division in DUCT's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
Theatre and class: Is theatre a medium of unity or division?
Part 2 of a series about classism in the theatre, exploring how the 'highbrow' assumption surrounding theatre is exclusionary, and the complicated history of the English theatre. Isabelle Bylett discusses…
The tragedy of Ophelia: Breaking her silence
It came to my attention while sitting in an English lecture on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which my lecturers dove into Hamlet’s existentialism and quest for revenge, that this play was…
Shakespeare’s sonnets and the complexities of being in love
Originating in 13th century Italy, the sonnet is a 14-line poem typically consisting of 10 beats per line – known as being written in Iambic pentameter. The rhythm of iambic…
Was Henry V really ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’?
Ciaran Cook explores the reign and reputation of Henry V
Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?
William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – perhaps the most well-known love story of all time. A tragic tale of young love, of intense feeling and all-consuming emotion, where the depth…
Was Margaret of Anjou as bad as Shakespeare said she was?
Shakespeare called her the “she-wolf of France” and a “hateful withered hag” but was Margaret of Anjou really as bad as that? I’d argue not and that it is time…
Colin and Cuthbert: star-cross’d lovers?
For never was a story of more woe, than this of Cuthbert and his Colino.