The Tragedy of Hoffman @ Magdalen College, Oxford
September 26, 2010
Writing about Hoffman Symposium, Magdalen College, Oxford from The Shakespeare apocrypha Seeing a rehearsed reading mounted by an academic society for an academic conference allows for some bizarre moments. One image from Elisabeth Dutton’s The Tragedy of Hoffman will stay with me for a long time, as it featured some of the academics whose work …
The Spanish Tragedy (Planet Theatre Productions) @ The Rose, Bankside
September 11, 2010
Writing about web page http://www.planettheatreproductions.co.uk/ Or perhaps that should be The Spanish Comedy; for Adrian Brown’s new production of Kyd’s epochal play understood the play primarily through burlesque. To render Elizabethan revenge tragedies disproportionately comic is, of course, a standard modern strategy, often used to great effect in productions of Titus Andronicus and even Hamlet, …
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