Idea: Shakespeare
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We often talk as though understanding another person is simply a matter of paying closer attention. Goodnight, Sweet Prince quietly argues otherwise. By placing us inside Hamlet’s mind rather than asking us to observe him from a distance, this adaptation transforms one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies into something unexpectedly contemporary. It isn’t simply about…
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Harlots is a reclamation, but not in the simplistic sense of making Shakespeare’s women louder or stronger. Emma Wright shifts the centre of gravity of the canon itself, asking what happens when women who have so often existed in relation to men are allowed to become the subjects of their own stories. Wright’s choices become…
