On a rainy Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 PM, Macbeth Alban Fraser III had begun to wonder, as he often did on such days, if he had succeeded in living up to his name. It was an important name, his grandfather had gruffly told him, one passed down from…
Otto breathed deeply as Cass entered the bar. He’d had a long day and wanted nothing more than to get home to Dessie, but Cassio had approached him at the office, insisting he have a drink at PJ’s with him and Ian. It was common knowledge Othello…
Shakespeare's "lascivious Moor" and "extravagant and wheeling stranger," Othello, is in many respects the embodiment of early modern fears about miscegenation and the erosion of distinctions in an increasingly pluralistic society. The role, first…
"The trade and profit of the city/ Consisteth of all nations” (3.3.30-31)
Venice was arguably the most multicultural city in the world when Shakespeare penned The Merchant of Venice. At the crossroads between East and West, it was a major trading…
Haply the seas and countries differentWith variable objects shall expelThis something-settled matter in his heart,Whereon his brains still beating puts him thusFrom fashion of himself. (3.1.170-74)
Analyzed often from a psychoanalytical perspective,…