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Dear Dairy
My brother Laertes hath just left for England again. I wilt miss him so, but just ere he left he bid me stayeth hence from Hamlet. I feeleth torn in two directions. My brother and father bethink that they dictate mine behavior, but mine…

ACT II SCENE III

INT.: BALLROOM IN RUSSIAN DIGNITARY'S PALACE. 1967. NIGHT.

The ballroom is full of high-profile Russians and their
guests, dressed in their evening finest. They laugh, dance,
drink…

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…

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…

The American Play
Scene 1
Howling winds and blowing snow in the background. Enter Three Russian Operatives wearing suits and ushankas sitting in first class in an airplane.

FIRST OPERATIVE
When shall we three meet below?
In thunder,…

Western patronization of the East was not labeled as Edward Said’s “orientalism,” when The Merchant of Venice was written; nonetheless, the postcolonial theory has informed modern-day readers how to read writing that poses the mysterious…

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…

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