Twelfth Night wrestles with a great many themes—love, desire, family, and loyalty among them—but mostly it is a play about whimsy, about basking in the freedom afforded comedy. Textual allusions…
Many are familiar with the concept of the “open stage,” such as the one Shakespeare worked on at the Globe Theater: no curtain, no sets, and props that could be…
Time: The Present. Place: Here. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, only wants to bury her slain brother. Her Uncle, the new King, has forbidden it. One young woman refuses…