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Post Tagged 'Shakespeare'

Hamnet: Family Life in the 21st Century

Chloé Zhao received four nominations and won two Oscars, Best Director and Best Picture, for Nomadland (2020) and has since become the major female director in the English-speaking world. Her new movie, Hamnet, about William Shakespeare losing his son and (ostensibly) writing his most famous tragedy, has been nominated for eight awards. Continue Reading...

Twelfth Night Revels, Revelations, and the Death of Rabelais

In the Christian calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany marks the coming of the Magi, whose journey signals the first revelation of the Incarnation to the wider world. With Epiphany, the days of Christmas end, though the afterglow of the Nativity lingers until Candlemas, on February 2: the feast of the presentation of the Christ Child in the temple, when the Church recalls another recognition. Continue Reading...

What Is a Conservative Novel?

Christopher J. Scalia’s 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) is a good primer, but I would not recommend it to anyone who can identify Hemingway and Henry James by their styles. Continue Reading...