Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Debt to Caravaggio: A Meditation on Theatrical Light and Human Darkness

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The notion that Shakespeare, the playwright of Stratford, might owe a debt to Caravaggio, the painter of Lombardy, may at first appear unlikely. After all, they worked in different media, in different nations, and with no documented encounter between them. Yet when one looks not to biography but to the imaginative grammar they forged,an art … Read more

One Star Reviews: Henry V at the Mayfair Theatre

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There are moments in the theatre when time seems to stop,when you’re so enraptured by the performances that you forget to breathe. This was not one of those moments. Time not only didn’t stop,it seemed to drag itself across the floor of the Mayfair Theatre like a wounded French horseman begging for the sweet release … Read more