Posted by: striphe on: January 9, 2008
Are monsters born or are they made? How are they to be understood? Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare Behind Bars, present us with compelling and complex views of civilization and its discontents.
Prisoners live in an completely different world, entirely cast off from the rest of “humanity.” But when the camera takes [...]
Posted by: striphe on: January 9, 2008
From the very beginning, Lear and his daughters had already staked out sides, were a battle to ever occur. This play is not the construction of those choices. This is the conclusion. And from the beginning, Cordelia’s nature is just as determined as Regan’s and Goneril’s. Cordelia’s angelicity (?) manifests by a reaction and [...]
Posted by: striphe on: January 9, 2008
The gulf between image and identity is wide and deep. A person can hide behind his image; he can be concealed by his image, he can oppose his image, he can serve his image, but no matter how hard he tries, he can never actually be his image. The supposed truth of what a [...]
