# william shakespeare (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover william shakespeare. Page: Feed: --- ## [The President’s Analyst](https://trailersfromhell.com/presidents-analyst/) _2026-08-21 · TFH Team · Trailers From Hell_ One of most charming and clever political satires of the ’60s almost didn’t make it to the screen intact. Director Theodore J. Flicker’s background in improv comedy provides cohesion to a wild scenario that pissed off everybody from the CIA to the FBI. James Coburn spoofs his Our Man Flint image as a paranoid psychiatrist... The post The President’s Analyst appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [Truth to Power](https://trailersfromhell.com/truth-to-power/) _2026-08-19 · Randy Fuller · Trailers From Hell_ Pairing‌‌‌ ‌‌‌wine‌‌‌ ‌‌‌with‌‌‌ ‌‌‌movies!‌‌‌ ‌‌‌See‌‌‌ ‌‌‌the‌‌‌ ‌‌‌trailers‌‌‌ ‌‌‌and‌‌‌ ‌‌‌hear‌‌‌ ‌‌‌the‌‌‌ ‌‌‌fascinating‌‌‌ ‌‌‌commentary‌‌‌ ‌‌‌for‌‌‌ ‌‌‌these‌‌‌ movies‌,‌‌ ‌‌‌and‌‌‌ ‌‌‌many‌‌‌ ‌‌‌more‌,‌‌ ‌‌‌at‌‌‌ ‌‌‌Trailers‌‌‌ ‌‌‌From‌‌‌ ‌‌‌Hell.‌‌‌ ‌This week, we dip into the rich pool of satire for three films that tell it like it was. We’ll have wine pairings for each. The Great… ## [To Be Or Not To Be](https://trailersfromhell.com/to-be-or-not-to-be/) _2026-08-19 · TFH Team · Trailers From Hell_ Jack Benny’s greatest movie role, and no wonder–it was written especially for him by Ernst Lubitsch! Carole Lombard’s swan song earned her some of her finest reviews posthumously, but the film itself, daringly dark for the time, was generally regarded as an insensitive and even troubling satire of wartime issues. The title refers not only... The post To Be Or Not To Be appeared first on Trailers… ## [Mars Attacks!   — 4K UHD](https://trailersfromhell.com/mars-attacks-4k-uhd/) _2026-08-18 · Glenn Erickson · Trailers From Hell_ One of Tim Burton’s most creative pictures abandons his morbid-lite focus to find big fun in comic Sci-fi spectacle, a ‘Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad’ adaptation of a set of bubble gum cards. It may not have been the movie-going flavor of the year in 1996, yet we’ll choose its affectionate satire over funereal gloom any... The post Mars Attacks! \ — 4K UHD\ appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [Body Snatchers   — 4K UHD](https://trailersfromhell.com/body-snatchers-4k-uhd/) _2026-08-18 · Glenn Erickson · Trailers From Hell_ The film adaptations of Jack Finney’s book The Body Snatchers score rather well — almost all of them are very good. For his foray into studio politics, filmmaker Abel Ferrara chose this highly commercial Sci-fi horror tale, and came up with an interesting variation on the main theme, with a low-key cast and effective, organic-looking... The post Body Snatchers \ — 4K UHD\ appeared… ## [Random Harvest](https://trailersfromhell.com/random-harvest/) _2026-08-18 · Glenn Erickson · Trailers From Hell_ James Hilton’s mystery romance takes audiences by surprise: IT’S GOOD. It might begin as a stack of cliché elements, but the development is engaging and the trick plot delivers an emotional kick, even on a third viewing. Greer Garson and Ronald Colman make a wholly entrancing screen couple, fighting a problem that will get anybody’s... The post Random Harvest appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [Casper Kelly Returns](https://trailersfromhell.com/podcast/casper-kelly-returns/) _2026-08-18 · Alex Kirschenbaum · Trailers From Hell_ The post Casper Kelly Returns appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [The Great Dictator](https://trailersfromhell.com/the-great-dictator/) _2026-08-17 · Charlie Largent · Trailers From Hell_ Who knew The Little Tramp was the original Antifa? In Charlie Chaplin’s first “official” sound film, the comedian has a lot to say, most of it about the fascist peril then overwhelming Europe. Though the film is occasionally preachy, it’s propaganda of the most righteous form and hilarious to boot. Chaplin plays both the tramp... The post The Great Dictator appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [World Noir Volume 5](https://trailersfromhell.com/world-noir-volume-5/) _2026-08-15 · Glenn Erickson · Trailers From Hell_ So you think life is tough where you are? … these three Italian crime tales teach a lesson beyond noir, that hope and hunger drive men to crime. Or does criminality just becomes part of life on its own? Alberto Lattuada, Flavio Calzavara and Pietro Germi offer thrillers al’italiana … expect unsavory surroundings and immoral... The post World Noir \Volume\ 5 appeared first on Trailers… ## [Captain Horatio Hornblower](https://trailersfromhell.com/captain-horatio-hornblower/) _2026-08-15 · Glenn Erickson · Trailers From Hell_ Raoul Walsh’s four-masted seagoing epic is an ambitious Technicolor production, a Hollywood film made in Europe. Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo bring C.S. Forester’s heroic characters to life, with able support from favorites like James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baker and Christopher Lee. The un-credited Ken Adam constructed full-sized sailing craft in the South of France.... The post Captain… ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/izMqLE59dsiS) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Richard Goes to the Movies](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/08/14/richard-goes-to-the-movies/) _2026-08-14 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Some of Shakespeare s plays were extremely popular during their author s lifetime, only to fall into relative obscurity in the centuries that followed his death. Others were less successful in their first runs, forced to wait centuries in some cases to have their genius fully recognized and their just desserts duly awarded. And a select few \[ \] ## [One Two Three](https://trailersfromhell.com/one-two-three-2/) _2026-08-14 · Charlie Largent · Trailers From Hell_ James Cagney plays a Coca Cola executive in this wild Cold War comedy satirizing sex, politics and soft drinks. The movie began filming in Berlin but Wilder was forced to move to Munich when the Wall began construction. Famous for being so fast-paced it leaves an audience either elated or confused, the movie split critics... The post One Two Three appeared first on Trailers From Hell . ## [Steph Tolev, Fortune Feimster & Nikki Glaser Wow a Massive Crowd at the Great Outdoors Comedy Fest](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6864&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=steph-tolev-fortune-feimster-nikki-glaser-wow-a-massive-crowd-at-the-great-outdoors-comedy-fest) _2026-08-13 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ After attending the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival at the Garrison The post Steph Tolev, Fortune Feimster & Nikki Glaser Wow a Massive Crowd at the Great Outdoors Comedy Fest appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Josh Johnson’s Comedy Band Camp is a Dazzling Unique Experience](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6854&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=josh-johnsons-comedy-band-camp-is-a-dazzling-unique-experience) _2026-08-12 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ I was shocked to see that Josh Johnson, the viral The post Josh Johnson’s Comedy Band Camp is a Dazzling Unique Experience appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [SBTS’ Julius Caesar as Constant as the Northern Star](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6843&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sbts-julius-caesar-as-constant-as-the-northern-star) _2026-08-11 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ It is an interesting choice in structure for William Shakespeare The post SBTS’ Julius Caesar as Constant as the Northern Star appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [The Biggest Little House in the Forest is ‘Fantastic’ for Small Children](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6830&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-biggest-little-house-in-the-forest-is-fantastic-for-small-children) _2026-08-02 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ On Friday we took my three year old niece to The post The Biggest Little House in the Forest is ‘Fantastic’ for Small Children appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Chariz Faulmino & Kelly Holiff on Bringing the ‘90s to Life in Rent While Seeing It Through a Contemporary Lens](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6819&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chariz-faulmino-kelly-holiff-on-bringing-the-90s-to-life-in-rent-while-seeing-it-through-a-contemporary-lens) _2026-07-25 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ Kelly Holiff who plays Maureen Johnson in Neptune Theatre’s production The post Chariz Faulmino & Kelly Holiff on Bringing the ‘90s to Life in Rent While Seeing It Through a Contemporary Lens appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Opus 5: Richard III](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/07/24/opus-5-richard-iii/) _2026-07-24 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ After the events of 1471, King Edward IV seemed more secure on his throne than any English monarch in several decades. A king in such a position can afford to be munificent. Now that the House of York had won out, Edward strove for reconciliation with even the most fervent partisans of the Lancastrian side. \[ \] ## [Andrea Boyd, Karen Bassett & Theofani Pitsiavas on Physical Theatre Prowess in Murder at Ackerton Manor](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6808&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrea-boyd-karen-bassett-theofani-pitsiavas-on-physical-theatre-prowess-in-murder-at-ackerton-manor) _2026-07-24 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ Steven Gallagher’s play Murder at Ackerton Manor is on stage The post Andrea Boyd, Karen Bassett & Theofani Pitsiavas on Physical Theatre Prowess in Murder at Ackerton Manor appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Becca Guilderson & Hugh Ritchie on Working Together to Make Their Come From Away Spring & Ross Creek Summer Come Together So Magically](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6784&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=becca-guilderson-hugh-ritchie-on-bringing-jane-henry-johnson-to-life-in-the-wind-coming-over-the-sea-five-weeks-of) _2026-07-21 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ The following conversation contains some spoilers for The Wind Coming The post Becca Guilderson & Hugh Ritchie on Working Together to Make Their Come From Away Spring & Ross Creek Summer Come Together So Magically appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dfjJoicYGzby) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Julie Martell & Mara Teare on Frenchy’s: The Thrift Musical & the Development of New Canadian Work](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6769&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=julie-martell-mara-teare-on-frenchys-the-thrift-musical-the-development-of-new-canadian-work) _2026-07-19 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ On June 20th I found myself in a Eastern Front The post Julie Martell & Mara Teare on Frenchy’s: The Thrift Musical & the Development of New Canadian Work appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Burgandy Code on Playing the Powerful at Point Pleasant Park](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6760&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burgandy-code-on-playing-the-powerful-at-point-pleasant-park) _2026-07-16 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ Burgandy Code has made her Shakespeare by the Sea debut The post Burgandy Code on Playing the Powerful at Point Pleasant Park appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Maude McInnis & Liam Oko on Friendship Onstage & Off in For Love Nor Money](https://www.twisitheatreblog.com/?p=6749&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maud-mcinnis-liam-oko-on-friendship-onstage-off-in-for-love-nor-money) _2026-07-14 · Amanda Campbell · The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog_ Last summer Mulgrave Road Theatre staged Laura Teasdale’s play For The post Maude McInnis & Liam Oko on Friendship Onstage & Off in For Love Nor Money appeared first on The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog . ## [Lovers and Spats, Gilot, Picasso, Wright, Baldwin and Saint-Exupéry, Brasserie Lipp, Paris](https://returnofanative.com/news/lovers-and-spats-gilot-picasso-wright-baldwin-and-saint-exupery-brasserie-lipp-paris/) _2026-07-13 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ There were few people in the brasserie \[Lipp\] and when I sat down on the bench against the wall with the mirror in back and a table in front and the waiter asked if I wanted a beer I asked for a distingue, the big glass muc that hel a liter, and for a potato salad. The beer was very cold adn wonderful to drink. The pommes à l'huile were firm and marinated and the olive oild delicious. I grounded… ## [SENS: The Merchant of Venice](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/103) _2026-07-13 · Alessandra Squeo · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ How did Shakespeare transform Italian narrative traditions into one of his most influential and controversial plays? This volume explores the two principal Italian narrative sources of The Merchant of Venice – Ser Giovanni Fiorentino’s Il Pecorone and Masuccio Salernitano’s Il Novellino – while situating them within the wider network of literary, cultural, and ideological exchanges that shaped… ## [Opus 4: Henry VI, Part 3](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/07/10/opus-4-henry-vi-part-3/) _2026-07-10 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ King Henry I know not what to say; my title s weak. The years after the Battle of St. Albans were a time of surface calm and secret plotting in and around the English royal court. Queen Margaret, who was proving to be a far stauncher defender of her husband and son than said husband himself, \[ \] ## [English and Italian Literature and Drama: Beolco’s Social Theatre at the Renaissance Turning Point](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/102) _2026-07-08 · Linda L. Carroll · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ The Renaissance was not simply the age of Shakespeare. It was also the age of Angelo Beolco – better known as Ruzante –whose groundbreaking theatre transformed comedy into a powerful vehicle for social critique and artistic innovation. This volume places Beolco at the centre of a new account of Renaissance culture, revealing how Italian and English drama developed through a dynamic process of… ## ["What's past is prologue": the Verona Shakespeare Fringe, Five Years and Counting](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/101) _2026-07-06 · Annadora Zuanel · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ How has Shakespeare remained one of the most influential cultural figures in the world more than four centuries after his death? This volume explores the extraordinary vitality of Shakespeare’s global afterlives through the lens of the Verona Shakespeare Fringe (VSF), an international festival founded during the Covid-19 pandemic to celebrate innovation, intercultural dialogue, and the… ## [Opus 3: Henry VI, Part 2](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/06/26/opus-3-henry-vi-part-2/) _2026-06-26 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester s wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason. The Treaty of Tours proved to be the last straw. Gloucester complained bitterly about the dishonorable peace Henry had made with France and his \[ \] ## [Opus 2: Henry VI, Part 1](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/06/12/opus-2-henry-vi-part-1/) _2026-06-12 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Although there is much that we don t know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast. Right after completing his Comedy of Errors, a play so thin it threatened to blow away on the merest spring breeze, he embarked upon the theatrical project \[ \] ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fZlaTTAjtDvl) _2026-06-12 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [The Literary Lion of London, Samuel Johnson](https://returnofanative.com/stories/the-literary-lion-of-london-samuel-johnson-17-gough-square/) _2026-06-08 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ Against all odds, Samuel Johnson, a poor boy from provincial England who was beset by involuntary tics and melancholia, became a literary giant of 18th century London. He dominated intellectual life as an essayist, critic, poet and lexicographer and was affectionately dubbed ‘Dictionary Johnson’ by the populace. King George III gave him the use of ... Read more » The post The Literary Lion of… ## [A Portrait of the Bard as a Young Man](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/05/29/a-portrait-of-the-bard-as-a-young-man/) _2026-05-29 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ We know more about the life of William Shakespeare than a lot of people think, but less than we would like. There is ample documentation of his commercial career as the most popular London playwright of his era. It comes in the form of notices, commentaries, and of course the plays themselves, about half of \[ \] ## [Antigone in the 16th Century. Thomas Watson and Other Adaptations of the Sophoclean Drama](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/100) _2026-05-27 · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ Sophocles’ Antigone circulated widely in sixteenth-century Europe, as shown by its many editions, translations, and adaptations. Yet a systematic study of its reception across different national contexts has been lacking. This collection of essays addresses that gap, beginning with Thomas Watson’s Latin version, examined by Dana Ferrin Sutton and Roger S. Fisher for its juridical and political… ## [Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/05/08/opus-1-the-comedy-of-errors/) _2026-05-08 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Dromio S. Master, shall I be porter at the gate? Adriana Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate. Beginnings can be funny things. Before the Beatles could commence transforming pop and rock music in earnest, they had to make their first album Please Please Me, a collection of pleasant but largely unremarkable \[ \] ## [Drama and Poetry in Beckett and Shakespeare](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/99) _2026-04-27 · Claudia Olk · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ Beckett and Shakespeare bring poetry into play. Their dramatic works also reflect on themselves as products of the creative imagination when they use songs and poems. This lecture explores the many connections and transitions between poetry and drama in the works of both authors. Uncovering correspondences and suggestive relations between them, it offers fresh readings of their plays and poetry… ## [Introduction: At Long Last, the Bard](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/04/24/introduction-at-long-last-the-bard/) _2026-04-24 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ A couple of anecdotes to start us off: Twenty years ago, I and the woman who is now my wife were in that early-to-middle, feeling-out phase of courtship, when the talk turns to existential matters of life and death, art and religion. I told Dorte that being the name of the love of my \[ \] ## [Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/04/01/bibliography-and-suggested-further-reading-9/) _2026-04-01 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Baer, Elizabeth. The Golem Redux: From Prage to Post-Holocaust Fiction. Wayne State University, 2012. Banville, John. Doctor Copernicus. Secker Warburg, 1976. Bell, Jim. The Space Book. Sterling, 2018. The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha. Oxford University, 1997. Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. Vintage, 1983. Brewster, David. The Martyrs of Science, or, The Lives of… ## [Epilogue: Infinity Embraced](https://analog-antiquarian.net/2026/03/27/epilogue-infinity-embraced/) _2026-03-27 · Jimmy Maher · The Analog Antiquarian_ Nicolaus Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei were all to one extent or another hounded and harried during their lives by political and religious conflicts. All faced their deaths under less than ideal conditions, being forced to place their hope and faith in their posterity where their contemporaries had failed them. \[ \] ## [Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in the Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources Project (SENS)](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/98) _2026-03-26 · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ This volume reimagines Shakespeare not as an isolated genius but as a dynamic participant in a vibrant, multilingual network of European storytelling. Emerging from the PRIN project SENS ( Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination ), it challenges the traditional, linear model of source study that reduces Continental and British texts to mere stepping… ## [“Within the book and volume of my brain”: Reflections on the Eudaimonic Value of the (Shakespearean) Text](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/97) _2026-03-26 · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ This volume reconsiders Shakespeare’s narrative sources through the lens of the Positive Humanities, proposing a renewed understanding of literary study as a practice oriented toward human flourishing. Developed within the framework of the SENS ( Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination ) project, the book brings together philosophical reflection, source… ## [Blossoming Orchards, Starry Nights Vincent van Gogh](https://returnofanative.com/stories/blossoming-orchards-starry-nights-vincent-van-gogh/) _2026-02-21 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ Vincent van Gogh headed for the South of France from Paris in February 1888 to seek a different, brighter light that he hoped would release the flat, clear colours he so admired in the Japanese ukiyo-e prints he had seen in Paris. He also longed for the peace of the countryside and, like so many ... Read more » The post Blossoming Orchards, Starry Nights Vincent van Gogh appeared first on Return… ## [SENS: Romeo and Juliet](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/96) _2025-12-23 · Silvia Bigliazzi · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ How did Shakespeare transform a familiar tale of doomed lovers into one of the most enduring tragedies in Western literature? This study retraces the long cultural and literary journey of Romeo and Juliet , revealing the rich network of sources, narratives, and ideas that shaped the play before it reached the Elizabethan stage. Moving from broad cultural contexts to close textual analysis, the… ## [To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf](https://returnofanative.com/stories/to-the-lighthouse-virginia-woolf/) _2025-11-29 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ To thirteen year old Virginia Woolf, the untimely death of her mother, Julia Stephen, at the age of forty-nine seemed to be ‘the greatest disaster that could happen.’ In a household containing a distraught father and six siblings, all ‘tangled and matted with emotion’, Virginia sank into ‘a nothingness’ of depression and succumbed to the ... Read more » The post To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf… ## [Between Jest and Dream: The Mad Pranks and Merry Jests of Robin Goodfellow](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/94) _2025-11-09 · Sidia Fiorato · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ At once mischievous and moral, rustic and theatrical, Robin Goodfellow – the shapeshifting sprite of English folklore – stands at the crossroads of laughter, literature, and belief. This volume reintroduces The Mad Pranks and Merry Jests of Robin Goodfellow (1628–1639), the seminal chapbook that brought the household hobgoblin of oral legend into print, and explores his transformation through… ## ["The bees that sat upon the Grecian's lips": Classical Contaminations in Early Modern English Drama](https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS/catalog/book/93) _2025-09-16 · Skenè. Texts and Studies_ This volume explores the shifting presence of Greek antiquity on the early modern English stage, tracing how Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights grappled with Greek texts, myths, and models. Far from being a simple inheritance, 'Greekness' emerges here as a site of creative friction – at once revered and resisted, adapted and unsettled. Through the lens of imitatio and contaminatio , the… ## [The Loveliest Place in the World, Talland House, Virginia Woolf](https://returnofanative.com/stories/the-loveliest-place-in-the-world-talland-house-virginia-woolf/) _2025-07-12 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ ‘Why am I so incredibly and incurably romantic about Cornwall?’ asked Virginia Woolf. Undoubtedly it was because, as a child with her parents and seven siblings, she had spent thirteen blissful summers there, in the family holiday house. Talland House sits on a hill, in a rambling garden above the curving bay of St Ives. ... Read more » The post The Loveliest Place in the World, Talland House,… ## [Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay](https://returnofanative.com/stories/picnic-at-hanging-rock-joan-lindsay/) _2025-06-15 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ On St Valentine’s Day, 1900, a party of teachers and schoolgirls from a prestigious boarding school escape their usual suffocating routine with a late summer picnic at Hanging Rock, a former volcano 70 kilometres north of Melbourne. After a long journey through hot, dry country, the party arrives in time for lunch and settles under ... Read more » The post Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay… ## [The Hermit of Hull, Philip Larkin](https://returnofanative.com/stories/the-hermit-of-hull-philip-larkin/) _2025-04-18 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ Bachelor poet Philip Larkin, known as the ‘Hermit of Hull’, took pains to present himself as an unassuming man, with little appetite for the trappings of a public literary life. His much loved poetry was brilliant and profound without being wilfully obscure. In his poem ‘Coming’ he wrote that his childhood was a ‘forgotten boredom’. ... Read more » The post The Hermit of Hull, Philip Larkin… ## [The Beat Hotel, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs](https://returnofanative.com/stories/the-beat-hotel-allen-ginsberg-gregory-corso-william-burroughs/) _2024-11-17 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ From 1957 to 1963 in one of the cheapest and filthiest hotels in Paris, key members of the Beats: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin reached creative heights with their verbal, sonic and visual experiments, and produced some of their finest work. The Beats were a loosely knit group who took an ... Read more » The post The Beat Hotel, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso,… ## [The Social Queens of Tilling, E.F. Benson](https://returnofanative.com/stories/of-social-queens-and/) _2024-09-22 · Jo Wing · Return of a Native_ E.F. Benson’s celebrated Mapp and Lucia novels chronicle English provincial life of the 1920s and 1930s with a mercilessly comic, sometimes malicious eye. They focus on two formidable women who dominate the social circles in their respective towns. The stout and deceptively cheerful Miss Elizabeth Mapp is the doyenne of the town of Tilling (for ... Read more » The post The Social Queens of…