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Not only did 2018 celebrate The Birthday Party’s 60’th anniversary, it celebrated 50 years since the Theatres Act 1968 came into force,[1] which, Natasha Tripney claims, was successful in ‘abolis...

MACBETH  We will proceed no further in this business.He hath honoured me of late, and I have broughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people,Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,...

There are distinct moments in the play where Hamlets mother, Gertrude, appears especially frail as Hamlet suggests she is in his first soliloquy. This side to her seems especially apparent in Act 3 scene ...

Cleopatra’s desire for Anthony acts to undermine her portrayal of commanding through her obsession with him that seems to govern her irrational actions. Her opening line: ‘where is he?’ portrays her to be...

As a Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley was pre-occupied with the power of nature over men. We see a clear example of this in the poem 'Ozymandias'. Shelley's representation of a man so powerful that he ...