Sad Update: the sale is over, and it’s gone back to the regular price. But it’s still a great time to ask your library to buy it! “When is it not?” I hear you ask. So true. But right now Palgrave is discounting e-books, so although I won’t be able to sign this version for […]
I apologise for leaving this site languishing. While the winding up of 2016 – the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – gave me a great deal to think about, it has all been too big or too small to translate to the page with any ease. So, I finished my year of tracking all the Shakespeare […]
Bell Shakespeare Company, Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House A good production of Othello always sets us up to ask, who is the hero here? Is it Othello, who offers so much virtue, but corrupts himself so absolutely? Cassio, with all his classical hero features, left to restore order at the end? Can Iago be thought of […]
At the beginning of this year I travelled to London, largely in order to see Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench in The Winter’s Tale. London might be assumed to be pretty grim in January. It hits a strong note of grey at the best of times, let alone in the post-Christmas, pre-daffodil dark of winter. And […]
