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…

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;…

It is rather difficult to pick out and elaborate on the one thing that is hindering the film, Someone Is Sleeping In My Pain: An East-West Macbeth (2002), from going bad to worse—there are multiple hiccups that complicate the film and the way it is…

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…

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…

A review of the painful adaptation of Macbeth into a lense of narcissism and exoticism

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…

Pitiful Parenting in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
An Op-Ed by Robin Goodfellow, Resident Sprite

I, Robin Goodfellow, can put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that my knowledge of what happens…

A critical review of the 2000 production ofHamlet, directed byMichael Almereyda.