Mirror
Conjuror of angels and demons: Dr. John Dee, the greatest magus of the Elizabethan age, used a black obsidian mirror of Aztec make to work Renaissance magic…
Read MoreSilent Macbeth
In 1916, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film of “Macbeth,” now lost…
Read MoreRioting Over Macbeth
In 1849 in New York, the rivalry between Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, both starring as Macbeth, sparked one of the worst riots in U.S. history…
Read MoreOphelia by Millais
Whenever I’m in London, I go to see Ophelia floating in her brilliant green brook…
Read MoreHilliard’s Burning Man
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: who is burning in Nicholas Hilliard’s miniature, and why?
Read MoreReduced Shakespeare Podcast: The Shakespeare Secret
Jennifer talks with Austin Tichenor about writing “Interred With Their Bones”…
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