It was only when I landed in Venice did I actually understand what Venice was. Unless you see the real thing, its actually quite complex to fathom how a city can be built on a marshy lagoon and thrive as a Republic for more than 800 years until the short man from France came and … Continue reading Venice Notes
In his lecture on Othello, the critic Harold Bloom has this memorable line: “Shakespeare was the greatest theorist of sexual jealousy the world had ever seen before the advent of Freud and Proust”. While ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ had jealousy as one of its themes, it is in Othello that Shakespeare explores this in all … Continue reading Othello
