Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
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Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama out soon with CUP.
Eoin Price
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Michael Billington ranked Shakespeare's plays from worst to best. I'm not going to do that, but here's the real top ten:
10. Love Island
9. Mamma Mia!
8. Tomb Raider
7. The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
6. Knightmare
5. Home Alone 1 and 2
4. King Kong
3. Dragnet
2. Spartacus
1. Donkey Kong Country
Anyone able to identify this beetle? Found in Cairngorms, if that is of any help.
Mind slightly blown. Jonathan Glazer, the Oscar winning director of Zone of Interest, used to direct music videos & advert in the 90s. He did the Virtual Insanity one for Jamiroquai and a couple for Radiohead. He also did the famous Guinness surfers ad. Had no idea.
Do people talk about football on here?
The name Emilio Gay sounds more like that of an Elizabethan courtier than a test match cricketer.
Shakespeare loved to write about the great kings - the Richards, the Henrys, the Kongs.
The book taught me a lot about violence and atrocity in early modernity. It incorpotates interdisciplinary insights with rigorous historical inquiry. It ranges widely & is not narrowly Anglophone in focus. Its readings of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Greene, Fletcher & others are consistently illuminating!
Was thinking some kind of tiger beetle?
Georgie Lucas isn't on Bluesky so it falls to me to advertise her first book, Massacres in Early Modern Drama, published by Manchester University Press in the Revels Companion Library series. You can read more (and buy it!) here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147301/
