Caitlin
Antony and Cleopatra
This is the best spin-off show of Julius Caesar that anyone could have imagined. It's ripe with soap opera drama. It begins years after...
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Aug 22, 202029 min read
Coriolanus
In his introduction to Coriolanus, the Riverside scholar Frank Kermode posits that "this inhospitable play is one of the supreme tests of...
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Aug 15, 202032 min read
Macbeth
This fucking play. It has injected itself into my life more than I could have ever intended, and I've come to realize how essential it is...
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Aug 9, 202033 min read
King Lear
I was intimidated going into this one. I won't lie. Every essay I've ever read puts it on this pedestal, vying with Hamlet for MOST...
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Aug 1, 202032 min read
Othello
I am perpetually intrigued by the common threads that Shakespeare weaves throughout his plays. They tend to be thematic or...
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Jul 24, 202020 min read
Measure for Measure
If this ain't a Rorschach test of a play... my God. For some, it is merely another "problem play" that doesn't know what genre it is. For...
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Jul 18, 202015 min read
All's Well That Ends Well
This one perplexes me. It's utterly unremarkable other than it involves a batshit plot that summarizes like a particularly juicy episode...
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Jul 11, 202024 min read
Troilus and Cressida
Everyone in this play is a WHORE. Which is why this is the perfect piss-take on wartime politics for any occasion. It's a big messy...
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Jul 4, 202019 min read
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is the most queer-centric Shakespearean play, and it is most appropriately titled. Traditionally, the last night of the...
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Jun 27, 202040 min read
Hamlet Week Two
In the process of outlining this one, it became all too apparent that I have so much more to say than I originally anticipated, so I've...
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Jun 21, 20208 min read
Hamlet, Week One
Our dear Prince of Denmark holds the most unique distinction of running away from his own creator. He is the only character in...
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Jun 14, 202014 min read
As You Like It
Going into As You Like It, I hadn't recalled much: a lady in drag, a bunch of rich people cavorting through a forest, "All the world's a...
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Jun 7, 202014 min read
Julius Caesar
For being a relatively short play, Julius Caesar sure does pack in the drama. Our playwright's first foray into ancient Roman subject...
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May 31, 202011 min read
Much Ado About Nothing
What's curious about Much Ado About Nothing is that it's considered one of the "high comedies" but it's not especially stuffed with...
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May 23, 202019 min read
Henry V
Just take a moment to admire how astute a student of Shakespeare Sir Laurence Olivier is with the above photos. So accurate in his...
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May 16, 202010 min read
The Merry Wives of Windsor
We all know the old story about how Queen Elizabeth saw the Henry IV plays and loved Falstaff so much that she ordered Shakespeare to...
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May 10, 202015 min read
Henry IV Part Two
And we're back! The next Henry IV picks up pretty much exactly where the last one left off, with everyone dealing with the repercussions...
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Apr 30, 202012 min read
Henry IV Part One
We're now entering the middle period of our Billy's career, and these next history plays really ramp things up, if you ask nearly...
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Apr 19, 202011 min read
The Merchant of Venice
After this week's lengthy scholar readings, I feel I have very little to add to the already deep conversation surrounding The Merchant of...
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Apr 6, 20209 min read
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Full disclosure: I was not enthused about going into Midsummer before this week began. I fell into the trap of believing it was, as Queen...
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