Shakespeare Sunday
Shakespeare Sunday began as a weekly response to a community prompt. Each post pairs a quotation, image, and personal reflection, to explore Shakespeare as a living writer rather than a monument. Some are playful. Some are argumentative. All are invitations to read more closely. And to join the conversation …
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Astronomy in King Lear
If the heavens seem to be against us, should we accept our fate, or challenge it with everything we’ve got?
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Silence In Hamlet
Silence isn’t ‘golden’. It’s unsettling and uncomfortable. Let’s look at how Shakespeare uses it in Hamlet.
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Celebrations in 1 Henry IV
Humans like structure. Chaos and anarchy have a shelf-life. The upending of norms, hierarchies, is only fun when you know it will end. But WHO ends it? HOW? WHEN? They tell us a lot about what’s gone before.
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‘Heads Will Roll’: Kingship in Richard III
You don’t need to wear a crown to be a king – you just ave to act like you have one on your head.
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‘Perfect Day’: Formidable and Fantastic Women in Much Ado About Nothing
Formidable AND Fantastic? Beatrice in ‘Much Ado’ give the lie to any idea that Shakespeare is misogynist.
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‘Under The Sea’ in The Tempest
The sea is always a transformative, liminal space. In The Tempest, Ariel gives us a haunting example of the ‘sea-change’ that awaited those the ocean claimed.
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‘Just’: The Villain in Twelfth Night
It should have been a moment of celebration, but I was a little bit scared. What had I done?
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Hot and Cold in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
Look past the words to the human. Where does Fulvia’s death leave a passionate, sensitive woman past her physical prime?
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Time in Richard II
In this play, catastrophe happens because people arrive too late, wait too long, mistake temporary things for permanent ones, or realise truths only after history has already moved on.