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A critical review of "Haider," a contemporary radical film, as it is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, delving primarily into the film's presentation of political unrest in Kashmir, and its use of mise-en-scene and cinematography to both convey…

You have a boyfriend, Felipe, whose big fat Greek biceps stretch the sleeves of his white cotton V-neck on Sundays. You meet him behind the parish center because Dad won’t let him past the welcome mat, and with the Holy Mary garden statue and…

My father never wanted me to marry a “man of color” (he used a less sensitive description common to the vocabularies of white fathers of 1947 Kentucky).
“Gertrude. You’re my pretty little lilly, you need to learn to keep the mud off your petals” he…

An Exploration of Gertrude and Ophelia

In my many readings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, I am often presented with the idea that Gertrude may have played a part in Ophelia’s death. Gertrude is nearly always portrayed as a passive villain, one that has…

Slides from Katelyn and Lexi's presentation on Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (Hamlet).

A pirate ship? I have to rescue him from a pirate ship? I told him not to trust those two doofs. They’re nothing but obnoxious trouble. And why is it always my responsibility to keep him from making dumb decisions? Of course he sends me the letter;…

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…

The Isango Ensemble’s Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was presented at Emerson College in November of 2015 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Based in Cape Town, the core of Isango Ensemble was founded in 2000 by artistic director Mark…

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…