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Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 20th Jul 2024 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review, Sydney

It is a common reflex to reach for Aristotle’s Poetics to determine what a good tragedy should be....

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Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...

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