The little white attic

This is a Royal Shakespeare Company production, directed by Trevor Nunn, who also directed the Macbeth production with Ian McKellen and Jud...

1/ This is my first play by Christopher Marlowe, and also the first play I’ve read from the Elizabethan period that isn’t by Shakespeare. Yo...

1/ The Taming of the Shrew is an unusual play, in that it has a frame narrative (the Induction)—indeed there’s also a play within a play in...

1/ The premise of The Comedy of Errors is simple: it’s about 2 separated twin brothers with the same name, and about their slaves, who are ...

1/ The play is the final part of Shakespeare’s second tetralogy: Richard II , Henry IV, Part 1 , Henry IV, Part 2 , and then Henry V . One t...

I wonder what I would have thought about Throne of Blood , had I not known Shakespeare’s play—but I do, and love Macbeth . Speaking as a fan...

 Compare to my answers in 2017 . 1/ Who are your favourite writers? Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Lev Tolstoy, Murasaki Shikibu, Cao Xue...

You are curious—Harold Bloom is one of the most important and influential literary critics, especially in the culture wars. This blog post i...