by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…
Tag: Shakespeare
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.
Language and Literature
Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama: A conversation between Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Matthew James Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton discuss, in conversation, how the volume ‘Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama’ came about.
J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy – the happiness of being sad – through Grock the clown and Shakespeare’s tragic comedies.
By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the…
John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…
Erin Sullivan and Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild are guest editors of a special issue of Cultural History about ‘Emotion, History and the…
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Ben Jonson Journal. Read on and learn more about the history and impact…