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Spending this evening in the company of some of my favourite books on Shakespearean tragedy ❤️ You can never go wrong with a bit of Aristotle then A.C.Bradley's lectures! #book #theory #shakespeare #bookgram #bookstagram #booklove #bookaddict #shakespearelives #tragedy #acbradley #aristotle #bookworm #literature #bookpage #bookish
Help! I just murdered Duncan!
NEW POST: Help! I just murdered King Duncan! #macbeth #revision #shakespeare #scene #a2s2
by Katherine Macbeth has got over his guilt and committed regicide – and now the wheels of tragedy really are spinning at an alarming pace… Now, if you want to watch a great version of it, go visit this link. Alternatively, Rory Kinnear does a stellar version on Shakespeare Live. So go watch! (And then come straight back. Please?) Properly guilt-ridden and awful, right?! So now you’ve watched it,…
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Help! 'Is this a dagger...?'
NEW POST: Help! Is this a dagger...? #macbeth #speeches #shakespeare #revision #help
Yes. Yes it is, Macbeth. You are hallucinating, there is a dagger in front of you, and you are doing a really terrible job of balancing guilt and ambition. Welcome to the dagger soliloquy! So, let’s have a read… Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as…
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MACBETH: Themes
NEW POST: Our #Macbeth themed May madness continues with our latest post on THEME... #revision
by Katherine It’s not long now until you’ll be forced into an exam hall, told to write about words at length (usually with some preeeetty strict criteria) and try not to have a total meltdown when you realise the extract you’ve been given is horrible. I can hear you beginning to panic. But, in the words of Lizzie Bennet – Because we are back for another dose of Macbeth, complete with information…
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MACBETH: Who's Who?
NEW POST: Who's Who? We find out who the characters are in Macbeth... #shakespeare #macbeth
This is fairly important stuff. If you haven’t a clue which character is which in a Shakespeare play, you are NEVER going to be able to figure out all the joyful wordiness that lies beneath. Imagine if you got Duncan and Banquo mixed up! That would be a whole other story… So – who is who in Macbeth? Macbeth – Starts off as Thane of Glamis. Meets some witches ready to lead him astray on the heath…
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Help! I'm Studying...
NEW SERIES! We help you through a Shakespeare play. It's not revision - it's SO much better...
by Katherine Sadly, exam season is upon us all once more. Easter is over, revision is the only word anyone seems to be able to pay attention to, and you (and your teachers!) are desperately trying to cram every last bit of knowledge you might need into what surely is not adequate amounts of brain space. Now, we may not be able to help you with most subjects, but we can help you with your…
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Review: RSC Julius Caesar, 2017
It's theatre-at-the-cinema time! And @bee_noble has just seen @RSC 's Caesar... #RSCCaesar
by Bryony Friends, Romans, Countrymen… lend me your tissues. Well, that Shakespeare is a sneaky one, isn’t he? I expected double dealing in Richard III, and Measure for Measure goes without saying. But this is Julius Caesar, people; we know what the deal is. People-pleaser goes from potential to potentate, gets taken out by shifty but well meaning mate and co., who are in turn snuffed by the dead…
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Villain #2 - What Makes... Angelo?
NEW BLOG POST | Villain #2: What Makes... Angelo? #villains #measureformeasure #shakespeare
by Bryony First and foremost, let us start with an acknowledgement. Measure for Measure is complicated: really complicated. Shakespeare deliberately creates an uncertainty between character’s public facades, their private soliloquies, and the audience’s shifting judgement of character. The play, fraught with political ambition, hypocrisy and demoralisation, is designed to confuse us – so if…
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Villain #1 - Edmund
NEW BLOG POST | Villain #1 - Edmund... #kinglear #edmund #villain #shakespeare #characterstudy
by Katherine We begin our travels into Shakespeare’s world of villainy with a fairly colourful character in the form of Edmund, Gloucester’s illegitimate son from King Lear. Jealous of his half-brother Edgar, who is due to inherit lands and titles from their father Gloucester, Edmund begins the play having to listen to his father joke about his conception, then get called ‘the bastard’ a lot. One…
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What Makes A Villain?
NEW BLOG POST | What Makes A Villain? #shakespearelives #shakespearesunday #villains
Every story needs a bad guy. Someone to thwart the hero’s intentions, someone to promote their own evil agenda. Think Iago in Othello, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Edmund in King Lear. All have something they want to achieve and will go to any ends to get what they want. So, what makes a villain so very evil and villain-y? 1) Someone who can fake it til they make it Take Iago, for example. He…
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We Could Be Heroes... Except We're Not (Othello Edition)
NEW POST | We Could Be Heroes... Except We're Not (Othello). Belated #ShakespeareSunday treat!
by Bryony There once was a man with an issue, Who fell from grace with a miscue. He thought his amore A despicable whore, And killed her for love of a tissue. Othello: What Happened?? ‘Men should be what they seem’; is this true of tragedy? Tragedy, we’ve established, is the inevitable fall of the protagonist, brought about by simply being human, or fate as it’s classically called. But if Othello…
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We Could Be Heroes... Except We're Not (Macbeth Edition)
NEW BLOG POST | We Could Be Heroes... Except We're Not (Macbeth Edition) #ShakespeareSunday
by Bryony Macabre Macbeth and his ‘What If’ syndrome ‘Pride goes before destruction. And a haughty spirit before stumbling’ (Proverbs 16 to 18; you can’t go wrong). In classic storytelling, a hero cannot become a hero unless something bad happens. Likewise, an hero cannot fall from grace without something good happening. Ambition Macbeth is the simpler example of hubris, given that it was written…
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Patriotism + Band of Brothers = Hero?
NEW POST | Patriotism + Band of Brothers = Hero? #heroes #shakespearesunday #henryv #heroism
by Katherine Patriotism is defined as having “vigorous support for one’s country”. A simple business, one would think. But in an era when we’re not all fighting for King and country or to conquer great empires, does patriotism really have any relevance any more? It’s a word too-often associated with negative connotations: football hooliganism and far-right groups, to think of a few. And looking…
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What Makes A Hero?
NEW POST: What Makes A Hero? | Our interactive guide to what = Shakespearean hero. #heroes
by Katherine Becoming a hero* is such a well-trodden path now, there seems to be a new blockbuster movie on the topic every six months. But what makes a hero, beyond access to superpowers, having a supersuit, being subject to bad scientific experiments, or being born a Norse god? This is where Marvel might be missing a step. Because every character has the capability to become a hero, be that in…
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Our first post of our new blog series is going up today! Keep your eyes on our Twitter feed for updates 💙 #Shakespeare #shakespearelives #shakespearesunday #hamlet #bookphoto #bookphotography #bookaddict #booklove #bookgram #bookstagram #bookblogger #bookhoarder #arden #ardenshakespeare #blogging
ANNOUNCEMENT: New Blog Series!
NEW SERIES | Check out our new blog series, taking us up until Christmas! #ShakespeareSunday
Finally, we can announce our next blog series! We hope that you all enjoyed #ArtThouBothered, our introductory series for the Bard’s most-studied plays. Now we’re moving on to one of our favourite themes – heroism. We kind of feel like we could all do with a bit of heroism right now, to be honest. That said, Shakespeare doesn’t entirely have a feast of heroes for us. What he does have, however,…
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We've still got ongoing internet troubles stopping us from uploading to the blog 😢 What we have found though is this gem of a book in the second hand book shop yesterday 💕 #book #criticism #Shakespeare #oldbook #oldbooksmell #booklove #shakespeareancriticism #litcrit #bookphoto #bookgram #bookstagram #bookaddict #bookhoarder #bookblogger #secondhand #secondhandbook