Tag: shakespeare

April 12, 2017

Brave Spirits in D.C. and Charlene V. Smith’s Antony and Cleopatra

By Musa Gurnis

Musa Gurnis (Washington University in St. Louis) Brave Spirits’s 2016-2017 season continues in Washington, D.C. with John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity […]

July 6, 2016

Talking Books with Russ McDonald

[Michael P. Jensen’s interview of Russ McDonald appeared in the latest issue of The Shakespeare Newsletter (65.2, 75-81), only weeks before Dr. […]

January 7, 2016

King Charles III

King Charles III, a “future history play” by Mike Bartlett, opened on Broadway on November 1 and will close on January […]

September 29, 2015

“My large kingdom for a little grave”: Druid Theatre Company’s Henriad at Lincoln Center

By Colin S. Macdonald

A gravedigger working by a mound of dirt upstage left; the entire stage floor covered in a layer of peaty […]

September 11, 2015

Abigail Rokison’s Shakespeare for Young People

By Amanda Giguere

Amanda Giguere (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) Abigail Rokison’s 2013 book, Shakespeare for Young People: Productions, Versions and Adaptations, published by Bloomsbury, […]

August 25, 2015

The Fox-Trap

Laura Kolb (Baruch College) Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox is often read as a condemnation of greed. The title […]

August 25, 2015

Brief Take on RSC Volpone

By Kelly Newman O’Connor

Jonson’s comedies usually come in for large doses of updating, as his topical humor requires footnotes; with its substantial rewrites, […]