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SA Sarah Nour

The First Stage-to-Film Adaptations Ever Made

Theater is one of the oldest forms of entertainment, with records dating back to ancient times. So when film was invented, plays and operas…

Sep 07, 2026 · 8 min read · 12 claps #theatre #film-adaptation #shakespeare

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KA Karisma Takhar

Juliet — Original poem

Dear Juliet seldom slept

Aug 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #william-shakespeare

KA Katherine Arcus · The Book Cafe

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

Like Shakespeare, this book is meant to be heard, not read

Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #books #book-recommendations #judi-dench

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ST Stefano Carini

King Lear

On the Attempt to Conform Reality to a Conceptual Order

Aug 09, 2026 · 0 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #symbolism #poetry

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CA Caitlin Cowan

King Beer - A Hilarious Drunk Twist on a Tragedy

The Canon Shakespeare Comanpy's second annual Sauced Shakes fundraiser is a show you don't want to miss!

Aug 07, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #theatre #portland-oregon #shakespeare

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KN Knowledge Explorer · ILLUMINATION

You Don’t Hate Shakespeare

You are just reading him the hard way

Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min read · 41 claps #shakespeare #hamlet #macbeth

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ZA Zan Gillies

THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH Review: Doth Historical Accuracy Mean Naught? Shakespeare Hath Gone Woke

By Barnabus Fletcher, first published 21 July 1606. Edited and republished by Zan Gillies, 2026.

Jul 24, 2026 · 4 min read · 10 claps #the-odyssey #macbeth #shakespeare

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RE Readerpedia

Macbeth: Power, Ambition, and Moral Corruption

Power rarely corrupts people on the spot. It must be a slow process in which individuals’ moral principles deteriorate due to overwhelming…

Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #macbeth #literature #shakespeare

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YV Yvonne Pipkin · Long. Sweet. Valuable.

Shakespeare: 400 Years Apart, Yet Strangely Familiar

William Shakespeare, often hailed as the greatest playwright in the English language, left an indelible mark on literature and culture that…

Jul 08, 2026 · 3 min read · 51 claps #history #literature #shakespeare

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GE Georgia · Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

My Daughter’s Role in Macbeth Woke Up the Girl I Was In 1994

Thirty years after Shakespeare first changed me, my daughter stepped onto a stage and opened the door again

Jul 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 100 claps paywalled #motherhood #theater #shakespeare

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MA Marcella‏𖦹

Walking Paranoia: Hamlet

Hamlet is often blamed for not acting. When I first read Hamlet, I just realized that this man wants just one thing, someone who will…

Jul 07, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #hamlet #literature #william-shakespeare

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DA Dan Harms

A Day for Everyone to Remember, and Someone Vouches for My Character

I write this on a day that is significant for so many of us. That’s right — it’s the day that I talk about my York Witchcraft and Magic…

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 53 claps #shakespeare #magic #occult

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AL Alesia Ofelia

Shakespear, Feminist, or Sexist?

As I was reading a scene in “Macbeth”, one of Shakespeare’s more known plays, I realised that I never thought of Shakespear as misogynist…

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #misogyny #macbeth #shakespeare

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MA Mary Acton · Frequency Change

That Is The Question

TDW# 38 | Rhetorical | 438

Jul 02, 2026 · 2 min read · 332 claps paywalled #change-frequencies #shakespeare #fiction-writing

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JT JTSunrise

THE TRAGEDY OF LORD SKIBIDI OF OHIO

A SHAKESPEAREAN EPIC IN THE TONGUE OF GENERATION ALPHA

Jun 29, 2026 · 68 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #psychology #leadership

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RA Rabia

Gist of analysis on Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, born on April 23rd, 1564, was the bard of Avon, playwright of comedy, tragedy, romance and history. He is considered…

Jun 25, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #english-literature #british-literature #bards

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AN Anurag Parihar · Infinite Impulse

Shakespeare Gets Shadow-Banned

Or maybe the algorithm simply wasn’t built for iambic pentameter.

Jun 25, 2026 · 3 min read · 307 claps paywalled #rant #satire #life-lessons

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BI Bill Petro

History of St. John the Baptist Day: Midsummer

The Sacred and the Pagan

Jun 24, 2026 · 8 min read · 50 claps paywalled #st-john-the-baptist-day #midsummer #shakespeare

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NA Nazar Çelik

The Fate of Ophelia

When we think of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we frequently focus on the Prince — his existential despair, revenge plot, and famous soliloquies on…

Jun 21, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #ophelia #theatre #play

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FE Fernandaartstudio

A luz de Veneza no cinema: Como a pintura do Século XVI deu cor ao Othello de Oliver Parker.

Todas as escolhas estéticas nas artes visuais são deliberadas e significativas. Deslumbrados com o resultado final, muitas vezes não nos…

Jun 19, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #cinema #história-da-arte #fotografia

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LO Loren Clark

Chivalry in Shakespeare’s Histories: From “Richard II” to “Henry IV, Part 2”

A Short Essay

Jun 18, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #literature #drama

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AL Alsu

“Hamnet” : Şekspirin yox, ailəsinin hekayəsi

Meggi Ofarelin “Hamnet” əsəri və onun ekranlaşdırılmış versiyası bizə bir dahinin kölgəsində qalan ailə faciəsini fərqli bir pəncərədən…

Jun 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 50 claps #shakespeare #hamnet #hamlet

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BE Beige_Clouds

Hamlet: An AP Literature and Composition Literary Analysis Essay

Works of literature often depict acts of betrayal. Friends and even family may betray a protagonist; main characters may likewise be guilty…

Jun 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #hamlet #classics #writing

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MA Marcos Zamith

“Romeu e Julieta” (William Shakespeare)

Talvez hoje a maioria das pessoas conheça Romeu e Julieta por ter assistido a algum filme ou peça de teatro, ao passo que algumas teriam…

Jun 13, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #romeuejulieta #shakespeare

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LU Luis Jimenez

​The Elsinore Code: How Two Tragedies and a Forbidden Myth Forged Shakespeare’s Hamlet By: Luis D.

This series of essays does not approach the works of William Shakespeare from the traditional, sterile lens of orthodox literary criticism…

Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #hamlet #history

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안주 없이 담배피던 이교수가

Jun 09, 2026 · 0 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #korean #potery

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LE Lev Goukassian

A Colloquy in the Winter Palace of Unwritten Books

A Philosophical Fiction on the Architecture of Conscience

Jun 09, 2026 · 19 min read · 0 claps #alexander-pushkin #dostoevsky #shakespeare

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DE Deborah T. Hewitt

Verse and Soliloquy

The King and Hamlet

Jun 09, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #creative-writing #shakespeare #cinema

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LU Luis Jimenez

Dismantling the Myth of Shakespeare: Theater as Self-Flagellation ​By: Luis D. Jimenez M.

Disclaimer: The following paper does not seek to rewrite official historical records,but rather proposes a reading hypothesis based on…

Jun 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #hamlet #literature

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“La Señora Macbeth”: Al rescate del símbolo unívoco

★★★ y 1/2

Jun 07, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #teatro #la-plata #shakespeare

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BA Batuhan Yılmaz · Become Better

What Makes Shakespeare So Different?

I first read Shakespeare before university, and to be honest, I didn’t understand what all the praise was about.

Jun 07, 2026 · 3 min read · 302 claps #literature #art #shakespeare

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VA Varun Singh

To Bury is to Bleed: Hamlet and the Curse of Indecision

We walk this earth dragging invisible chains forged from every conversation that died in our throats. Words we swallowed like broken glass…

Jun 03, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #hamlet #drama

RO Ron Fassler

“THE DAZZLER”: WHEN LAURENCE OLIVIER WAS ATOP THE WORLD

June 1, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.

Jun 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #broadway #shakespeare #sophocles

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NI NibbleNibble

Was Shakespeare sexist?

Recently, I’m learning Macbeth and I came up with this interpretation. I know this is a very sensitive claim to make, and to add to that…

Jun 01, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #shakespeare #macbeth #literature

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BE Ben Allison

Favorite Film #37, 1965: Chimes at Midnight. Directed by Orson Welles.

The Touch of Evil of William Shakespeare. Except unlike Touch of Evil, which exploded the film noir genre with a stick of dynamite…

May 31, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #orson-welles #shakespeare #favorite-films

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RA Rashidah Nadirah Shakir · Readers Club

What if Othello had a Plus One?

In Conversation with William Shakespeare

May 31, 2026 · 8 min read · 112 claps paywalled #shakespeare #theatre #literature

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SR Sridhar K

When Greatness Is Stained: Thiruvalluvar and Shakespeare on Reputation and Responsibility

Life’s enduring truths often find expression across different cultures, languages, and civilizations. One such truth is beautifully…

May 29, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #thirukkural #philosophy #ethics

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ST Steve Barnett

Seven Benefits of the Countryside for Literary Inspiration.

Let the mind play!

May 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #insperation #shakespeare #imagination

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JA Jays Geronca

Hamnet (2025) Movie Review NO SPOILERS: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn

Plot

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #hamnet #jessie-buckley #paul-mescal

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JX J.X. Mason

My Favorite Quotations, #16 thru #20

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one…

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #spiritual-quotations #shakespeare #continuing-creation

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MI Michele Vigorita · Poiesis Productions

By Heart: Saving Words Is Not the Same as Saving Meaning

Tiago Rodrigues builds a theatrical device of rare elegance, yet reveals a decisive fracture at its center: remembering a text is not the…

May 25, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #theatre #shakespeare #performing-arts

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DS Ds Traylor · NEW LITERARY SOCIETY

Antisemitism in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”

Shylock has been considered one of Shakespeare’s most memorable villains; however, the real evil is in his portrayal. Whether it was…

May 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 50 claps paywalled #shakespeare #anti-semitism #merchant

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LU Lulu Reads

The Real Villain in Romeo and Juliet Isn’t Their Families — It’s Fate

From coincidence to prophecy, Shakespeare constantly reminds readers that their ending was unavoidable.

May 22, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #literary-analysis #romeo-and-juliet

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HM H. Mikel Feilen · Doctor Funny

Be All My Sins Remember’d

Hamlet’s Soliloquy — a spoken thought of life and death

May 22, 2026 · 3 min read · 200 claps paywalled #hamlet #hamlets-soliloquy #funny

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SE Sevar G · NEW LITERARY SOCIETY

A Father’s Failure in Shakespearean Tragedy

On attachment, trust, and the fragility of identity

May 20, 2026 · 3 min read · 100 claps #shakespeare #literature #feminism

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TJ Tjiso

Yond Cassius

She looked up and saw the multicolored side jerk violently, straining against its gag, while the other side only clamped down harder. “Very…

May 15, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps paywalled #satire #shakespeare #authoritarianism

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JO Jon Neiditz

THE NECESSARY MEN

A Masque of Smoke, Safety, and the Surplus Sun

May 12, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #shakespeare #elon-musk #dario-amodei

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MI Miguel Abrantes · The Drawing Times

Wizardry

Notes on a drawing-series in the making.

May 11, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #drawing #wizards #shakespeare

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RA ram

Kaliyattam

Kaliyattam (1997), directed by Jayaraj, stands as one of the most arresting Indian reimaginings of William Shakespeare’s Othello — a film…

May 10, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #film-reviews #malayalam-cinema #shakespeare

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GY GYTWill

Hamlet at BAM Theater: The right choices? That is the Question.

I love the BAM theater, its old withered interior reflecting an aged veteran of New Yorks Avant Garde revival with every crack showing its…

May 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #hamlet #shakespeare #theater