Archive for February, 2012
Stairway to Heaven
Medical humour is traditionally pretty black. All those years of being confronted with illness, misery, disease and death mean that you have to be able to see the funny side of even the most tragic events – although if you think we are the only ones who cope in that way you have never been [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Women Should Be Silent in the Churches
Poor old St Paul. It probably never occurred to him as he dashed off his letter that his words would set off centuries of furious argument and be used to justify the oppression of women in the church right up until the present day. Would he be upset, I wonder, to know that a woman [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Angels or Monsters? – Gay Themes in Performance
Essay submitted for the “Ways of Talking About Opera” module, Rose Bruford College Opera Studies course, 2009. Notes References to The Merchant of Venice (play) are to The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare (London: Chancellor Press 1982) References to The Merchant of Venice (film) are to Trevor Nunn The Merchant of Venice Metrodome [...]
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