Finally got round to reading this. I’m getting a lot of King Lear but it’s of course also very obviously not like Lear and I like its tonal ambiguities. I’m registering Lear partly because, despite my aspirations to the contrary, I simply know Shakespeare’s plays better than I do those of other writers (even if I like to think I’m fairly w…[Read more]

All the better… genre, magic AND dragons 🙂

Hi everyone, I’m Susanne – another first-time reader of the play.

I specialise in (early modern) law and literature, and have a particular interest in genre (how do early modern genre politics/evolving genres influence the depiction of legal conflicts on the stage?), revenge, and non-Shakespearean drama. Oh, and pirates! Because the German…[Read more]

Hello. My name is Eoin and I am pleased to join this group. It has been a very long time since I read this play.

I’m interested in the politics of printing and performing 16th and 17th century plays and in reprints and revivals of early modern drama in later centuries, including our own. My pronouns are he/him/his. When I am not doing early…[Read more]