Who’s Who in … Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth Who's Who

Two households, both alike in dignity …

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(QotW#89) 30 March 2020

Never mind isolation and social distancing, it’s ‘slogan fatigue’ that’s slowly killing me …

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Shakespeare IS political – understand that, and move on

There have been plenty of times when I’ve felt the need to apologise for being political in a blog about Shakespeare.  I think it makes my employers nervous, despite the fact that they never get named, and the blog is entirely independent of them.

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Who’s Who in … Macbeth

Everyone remembers the ‘Egg’, but not who his father is …

Macbeth Who's Who

Who’s Macduff again, Sir?

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The wanderer returns …

Not ALL those who wander are lost. But I think I have been, for a while …

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And he himself wander’d away alone,
No man knows whither. (Richard III, IV.iv)

Tentatively, I feel like my self-imposed exile might be over.

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