by Walter Feldman Love is the Way and the Path of our Prophet. We are Love’s children, and Love is…
Category: Theatre and Dance
by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team –…
Cultural History
Folk Songs as Communication, Resistance, Lament, and Entertainment Among Women in Northeastern Afghanistan
By Wolayat Tabasum Niroo In the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan, talented women sing folk songs to entertain each other in…
Cultural Studies
The Holocaust and Climate Change: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep
by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…
By Brett Andrew Jones It wasn’t every day that accusations of cannibalism flew around the early Jacobean court. That’s (one…
by Geoffrey Marsh Given that there is little information about Shakespeare’s life, people ask what made me think there was…
Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo’s ghost for the stage in Macbeth.
English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…
Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…