Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Let’s start with a lovely letter of note: in 1980, a librarian and her students wrote to Francis Ford Coppola imploring him to adapt The Outsiders. The rest is history. ‘Island … Read more
Column: Art / Music / Theatre
The hollowness of privilege: Queen Lear
Image credit: Jeff Busby For my money, King Lear is the problem child of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. While the other three of the ‘Big Four’ – Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth – are resolved in a deeply cathartic manner, Lear’s relentless bleakness stymies the audience’s relief at every … Read more
Column: Art / Music / Theatre
The Trouble with Coriolanus
Coriolanus is a puzzle. In this strange conclusion to Shakespeare’s dizzying series of tragedies, the playwright seems to jettison complex emotional dynamism in favour of ferocious single-mindedness. Read more
Podcast
Podcast: Alex Menglet, Bell Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has its share of memorable lines – to this day we beware the Ides of March or beseech our friends, Romans and countrymen to hear us. But though it’s sometimes thought of as the Shakespeare’s boring toga story, its absorbing tale of power, friendship … Read more
