Desire takes the stage - in Shakespeare and Austen

All's well if it ends well in Mansfield Park

Happy new year, friends. It’s so nice to be out of hibernation and back with you, and back with the dramas and demands of Jane Austen and Shakespeare as we continue exploring the connections between the two - and this is not your Grandmother’s Austen or your Granddad’s Shakes, it’s full of fights, romance, sex, and sacrilege. Enjoy!

So having begun with …