By Lexi Finnigan for The Telegraph, 3 December 2015 A diary entry showing a rare and bawdy glimpse into Shakespeare’s character as a womaniser will be on display to the public for the first time ever in a major British Library exhibition next year. The anecdote, discovered by scholars inside the journal of law student John Manningham, recounts an amusing story about Shakespeare, […]
By Isaac Butler for Slate, 20 September 2015 Picture for a moment Hamlet, the melancholy prince of Denmark. Chances are, you’re imagining a dashing gentleman who looks like one of the many famous actors who’ve played him. Kenneth Branagh, say, or Laurence Olivier, or Jude Law or David Tennant. You might even picture Benedict Cumberbatch, who is drawing crowds to London to see […]
By Mike Dunham for Alaska Dispatch News, 10 April 2015 Different breeds of supernatural nemeses surge and ebb in popular culture. Aliens, ghosts and, most recently, vampires have each enjoyed waves of books, movies and television shows that have now receded from their peaks. The epidemic of zombie-themed entertainment, however, has proven particularly infectious, morphing like a drug-resistant virus from the […]
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