Words are powerful whether in written or spoken contexts. They decide and have decided the fate of many people, societies, and groups in human history. Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar swayed the angry plebeians against the conspirators after the…
Shakespeare’s tragic twins memorialised in the Bard’s resting place
The novelist Maggie O’Farrell will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon during the weekend bearing two branches of rosemary cut from her own garden. A plant traditionally associated with remembrance, as Ophelia notes in Hamlet, its flowering sprigs will be laid on…