is an Assistant Professor of English at Kansas Wesleyan University, where she specializes in teaching Shakespeare and British literature. Her research and writing interests are in dramatic adaptations and narratives of scandalous events, and she was last found in the Folger Shakespeare Library researching scandals and true crimes from Shakespeare’s era. Find her on Twitter @MelRohrer.
Sometimes the old tropes are the best tropes: Shakespeare and Our Flag Means Death
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Melissa Rohrer
Melissa Rohrer explores how “Our Flag Means Death,” a show inspired by the true story of the early 18th-century “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet, draws on character types and narratives that Shakespeare used frequently across many of his plays, while breathing…
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