Judi Dench

In 1978 Trevor Nunn directed a Macbeth film that is frequently considered being the definitive Macbeth film. This film stars Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. It was based on a Royal Shakespeare Company stage creation of Macbeth that was brilliant success. Trevor Nunn stays faithful to the content of the play and the interplay between the light and the darkness is more than striking in his adaptation of Macbeth. To create a puzzling and peculiar ambience for the viewers, the scene is played in…

We opted to view the film Alice Sweet Alice, directed by Alfred Sole for three reasons. The first, and primary reason that we selected this films is that it is a part of the slasher-film genre, which is our favorite genre of horror films. These films generally have a more fascinating, twisted, and gore-filled storyline then their horror-film counterparts. This film, unlike many others predating 1980, has a very frightening and intimidating film trailer. It is often said that one cannot judge a…

“Ghosts” is a stage play written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The stage play was written in 1881, and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. (Mulyani, 2014) It was starred by Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Jones and Natasha Richardson. Ghosts begins with a conversation between Mr. Engstrand and his daughter Regina. He tried to convince his daughter to come back home, and leave Mrs. Alving’s orphanage, which was built for Captain Alving’s, her husband, 10th…

There was a variety of things to do in 1998, such as: movies, television shows, music, sports and fashion. The number one song on the Billboard charts in 1998 was “The Boy is Mine” by Brandy & Monica. The number one album was the self titled: “The Backstreet Boys”. The Grammy Awards were big in 1998. Lauryn Hill won album of the year with “The Miseducation of Laryun Hill”. Lauryn Hill also got best new artist. The best pop album went to “Ray of Light” by Madoma. Best pop duo or group was “Jump…

When studying Shakespeare's works, there is a multitude of characters he creates that stay with you. For me, that character was Lady Macbeth from Macbeth. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's more well-known tragedies. Moreover, Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most infamous characters. She is not the typical weak-willed, damsel in distress female characters that fill most other Shakespearean plays-at least at first. She is one of the more powerful female characters in literature. Her…

For the purposes of the essay, I am going to be interpreting the term ‘villainous’ as the perception of Lady Macbeth and Mr Hyde as sinful and immoral characters by the Victorian and Jacobean audience. The concept of “Macbeth” played on ideas such as the divine right of Kings, the supernatural as well as the expected role of women in society. Whereas in "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Stevenson used the position of Hyde as a representation of Dr Jekyll’s disreputable desires as a…

On the Great River Shakespeare Festival website, it reads, “Teenagers make bad choices. It was true in Verona in the 1400s; it is true today. For more than 400 hundred years we’ve been telling this story, and we don’t appear to have any desire to stop.” Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, where there is a violent feud between the Montague and Capulet families. In the prologue, the Chorus foreshadows the plot of the play. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…What here shall miss, our toil…

Countless movies and books have come forth, which portray the zombie. These movies give humans a look at how zombies function. Books have come about how to successfully protect yourself from the zombie. But what of this undead entity? Where can it turn to gain some useful knowledge for survival? I have detailed here helpful hints for zombies and future zombies to heed. This is the Zombie's Survival Guide. Diet. For zombies finding brain to consume can be difficult. This delicacy is quite…