media and culture

"...Heath Ledger...found dead in his apartment..."  Read More »

Let's face it: many of Shakespeare's works are very disturbing and violent: Macbeth dabbles in witchcraft and gets beheaded, Hamlet contemplates suicide, Coriolanus is burned alive, and in Titus Andronicus, Lavinia's rapists are baked into a pie. Caliban is enslaved to Prospero, and Katharina is "tamed" into submission by sleep deprivation.  Read More »

One of my most prized possessions in my dorm room is my Riverside edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. On my bookshelf is Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World, and Hamlet's "Speak the Speech" is a vocal warmup in my Acting class.  Read More »