Caitlin
Manflesh of the Decade: 👑 Sir Kenneth Branagh✨
Before I even knew what his deal was, before I could even pick his face out of a lineup, I already knew deep inside, from all that...
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Caitlin
Nov 5, 20223 min read
Forever Boyfriend
“Are you reading the whole of Shakespeare?” “Re-reading.” “Why?” “I like Shakespeare.” “I like… my cat.” Fortunes of War, BBC, 1987 Way...
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Jan 20, 20226 min read
Dagger of the Mind
Joel Coen opens his pet Shakespeare film with the cryptic title card: When. It is the first word conjured in the play—and the film—by one...
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
First Day 2021
Compared to this day one year ago, today has proven mercifully uneventful. It began a little differently—my parents had stayed the night...
Caitlin
Dec 13, 20209 min read
Shakespeare Miscellany
Since I already realized that one's study of Shakespeare never ends, I cannot conclude, but I shall outline all the deep thoughts I had...
Caitlin
Dec 6, 20204 min read
The Sonnets Part Four
Oh boy, what a stark contrast between this batch and what came heretofore. Billy was in a MOOD and that mood was sexual frustration. Not...
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Nov 28, 20205 min read
The Sonnets Part Three
This second half of the "faire youth" collection was a whirlwind. There's more drama in this forbidden relationship than all the plays...
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Nov 22, 20203 min read
The Sonnets Part Two
Sixty-three sonnets into this home stretch and I am already wheezing. I'm half-way through what is deemed the "faire youth" sequence and...
Caitlin
Nov 14, 20203 min read
The Sonnets, Part One (Intro)
Scholars have a lot to say about The Sonnets. You poke one with a pin and they burst with a plethora of philosophizing on their form and...
Caitlin
Nov 7, 20205 min read
Sundry Poems & Whatnot
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT All signs point to "A Lover's Complaint is the author's exercise in popular literary form and it was thrown in with...
Caitlin
Oct 31, 202011 min read
Big poems & Such
This week, we jump right into the deep end of Shakespeare's poetry with his lengthy (and sexy) dedications to the Earl of Southhampton....
Caitlin
Oct 24, 202013 min read
Edward III
The first half of this play is a telenovela, and the second half is a straight up rip-off of the Henriad. I did not hate it. In fact, it...
Caitlin
Oct 18, 20208 min read
All Is True (2018)
It was not easy for me to resist watching Sir Ken Branagh’s most recent addition to his Shakespeare oeuvre. My year-long project has been...
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Oct 17, 202014 min read
The Two Noble Kinsmen
One act into this one, I was already weary of this half-Shakespeare crap. And I still have Edward III to slog through, although that one...
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Oct 10, 202015 min read
Henry VIII, aka All Is True
This play is cursed. And so cursed, that even in the reporting this week, I have hit some snags. So I'm not going to fight it. It's one...
Caitlin
Oct 3, 202021 min read
The Tempest
Here we are, at the (near) end of Shakespeare’s direct influence on Elizabethan theatre. And it’s where hell empties itself because “all...
Caitlin
Sep 26, 202023 min read
The Winter's Tale
So I am totes sad that most of the time, people only remember this play for its bizzaro ursine stage direction than for the NONSTOP...
Caitlin
Sep 19, 202027 min read
Cymbeline
Cymbeline is famous for two things: Imogen, the most lovely female character possibly in all of Shakespeare, and that one perfect elegiac...
Caitlin
Sep 13, 202014 min read
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Going into this one, I remembered nothing about it. I gathered that it was another one these semi-contested plays where Shakespeare had a...
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Sep 6, 202014 min read
Timon of Athens
If you're a writer, you know that sometimes you have to "kill your darlings,” i.e. for the greater good, you must cut out some of your...
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