A new government (at last we can exhale) suggests a great opportunity to begin afresh on many public projects. But is it too much to think we can reset ingrained cultural attitudes? Let’s dream big, at least for now. I would love to see a fundamental shift in Australia’s attitude to research. Not to any […]
There is a famous story that claims that Coleridge wrote only the first part of “Kubla Khan”, due to an interruption. He conceived the full poem, complete, in a dream, wrote in a reverie, and lost everything after the fifty-forth line when a visitor from Porlock was announced and he was forced to raise his […]
Bet you never would have guessed that it’s possible to teach 10-year-olds Shakespeare via Zoom. I certainly didn’t think I could. But aren’t we all finding ourselves doing things we never expected, lately? As longtime readers know, I occasionally teach Shakespeare to children younger than those usually considered to be the target age for that […]
I’m back from Italy, which was mostly sightseeing, but a little bit work. I was invited to give a guest lecture and workshop at the Shakespeare Summer School run each year by Dr Victoria Bladen of the University of Queensland. This year it took place in Verona, which is a town entirely built of pink […]
Anna Kamaralli 