Shakespeare’s Allegory of the Fall of Man: Notes on Macbeth and Christian Artistry
Macbeth is a short play compared to the rest of Shakespeare’s masterful canon. That doesn’t take away from this masterpiece of tragedy—though it has caused some to…
Macbeth is a short play compared to the rest of Shakespeare’s masterful canon. That doesn’t take away from this masterpiece of tragedy—though it has caused some to…
Let me begin by declaring that, unlike my fellow colleagues, who are college professors, I am an independent, unaffiliated scholar. My status entitles me to quip that,…
Imagine a smoking cauldron rising from the trapdoor of the Globe’s center stage as you hear echoes of thunder from the attics. Three bearded men cloaked in…
1 The study of sources and influences suffers a bad reputation in Shakespearean scholarship, for the most part, deservedly so. Earlier generations of scholars too much entangled…