Elizabeth Tavares
welcome to Bite Thumbnails, a blog about theatre and early modern English literature voiced by a doctoral student doing diligence in the midwest. The idea here is to provide a more conversational forum to consider topics in Renaissance drama and its kin, such as theories of audience, film and adaptation modes, and material culture.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Reviews Theatre William Shakespeare Notices Series Oregon blogroll Urbana-Champaign Original Practice Shakespeare Festival Portland University of Illinois Illinois A Midsummer Night's Dream Pacific University Romeo and Juliet digital humanities Macbeth original practices Richard III OPS Fest
24 December 2018
Here is a purr of fortune’s, sir, or of fortune’s cat — but not a musk-cat — that has fallen into the unclean fishpond of her displeasure,...
Shakespeare, Surprise, & Other Drugs
14 August 2018
And in the wood, where often you and I Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie, Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, There my Lysander and myself shall meet — Hermia,...
Independent Shakespeare Co’s “Titus Andronicus”: or, Tragedy in the Park
30 July 2018
The Independent Shakespeare Company‘s Titus Andronicus has got me thinking about why Shakespeare in the Park initiatives stage tragedies as part of their free seasons. What...
Dudamel’s “Otello” at the Hollywood Bowl
27 July 2018
Admittedly, I am a bit out of practice reviewing here on the blog. My writing energies have been elsewhere, and you can see some recent things now available and forthcoming from Shakespeare...