Shakespeare’s Diary

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Archive for March, 2007

Titus Andronicus

Posted by The Bard on 28 March 2007

Titus is often regarded, and rightly so, as just blood, guts and gore. However, it does have an interesting hint of what is to come in Othello when his treatment of Aaron and Iago is considered.

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Cymbeline

Posted by The Bard on 28 March 2007

Cymbeline is really an interesting and entertaining play, once it’s realized what Shakespeare intends, how he deliberately mixes genres, and parodies his own work.

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Coriolanus

Posted by The Bard on 28 March 2007

Coriolanus is conceivably Shakespeare’s supreme tragedy.

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