Menu Theatre Department’s Approach to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Playwright Biography: William Shakespeare Summary and Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Adaptations and Contemporary Resonances A ...
Hamnet,’ focussed on Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as a healer, brings forward stronger readings of a character who’s been at the ...
Written in 1611, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a raw mess – full of feeling and as messy as life. The 18th-century man of letters, Samuel Johnson decried the play as a work of “unresisting imbecility”, a ...
Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time. John Gerard, Robert Davies, Thomas Johnson, Robert ...
William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in human history. The 39 shows attributed to the “Bard of Avon” have been performed, adapted, and studied innumerable times in the ...
He was the greatest Western playwright of all time. His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, has remained an ...