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5 Books To Truly Understand Shakespeare
Go into any bookshop and you will be inundated by Shakespeare: hundreds of editions of the plays and sonnets. Endless biographies. Fictional retellings. It all looks great, and a lot of it is. But literary decision fatigue is very real. Som...
Demystify Shakespeare: Macbeth the Nihilist, Existentialist, and Murderer
On ambition, power, and the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Believe it or not: if you’ve read the Harry Potter series, you are already familiar with the core tenets of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The parallels are striking: prophecies which may-or-ma...
5 Ways I'm Using Literature To be More Mindful This Summer
For the past few months, I’ve fallen total victim to that ever-present contemporary term: doomscrolling. In fact, while researching for this post, I learned that “doomscroll” (v) is an official word now, recognized by the Oxford English Dic...
Ophelia: Do We Know Her At All?
Take a moment and imagine Shakespeare’s Ophelia, from his magnum opus Hamlet. Genuinely visualize her, however you can, in your mind’s eye.
I would be willing to bet that your image looks something like this:
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Everything You Need To Know About Hamlet
And why we are still so obsessed with him.
Last week, we looked at some Big Shakespearean Questions: Who really was Shakespeare? Why, out of his many contemporaries, is he the one who’s stuck with us? And when we read a Shakespeare play, w...
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