Posts by: Jane Mahady

The truth is, strange as it may be, Benedick loves nothing in the world so much as he loves Beatrice BUT it’s going to take him some time and some meddling tomfoolery to figure that...

This is one of Shakespeare’s less popular and more problematic plays. It’s an Elizabethan Me Too moment dressed up in a comedy costume. Context The play places Christian righteousness and judicial righteousness on a scale...

Shakespeare places his characters between the sharpest of rocks and the hardest of places to see how they struggle and who prevails. This is a fascinating play about many things, not least about how we...