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Faced with a new enemy, one backed by the full might of the roman empire. a native of palestine who longs to claim the holy city for himself, herod. >> i think herod would have been one of those people that would have been terrifying to be both friends or enemies with. if you were his enemy, he was ruthless, implacable. he held a grudge. he was scheming. and even if you were his friend, you never knew where you stood. >> hes part monster, part hero. his name means "hero" in greek, so he was alwa...

‘Zola’s characters are, in every sense of the term, art monsters.’ There is very little that seems normal about this, the year of our lord two thousand and twenty. It was a year in which we were all supposed to use our time in lockdown to write King Lear, or at least to make a lot of noise about how that was never going to happen. Could mass death and no social life actually give us the space in which to write our masterpieces? Survey says . . . probably not. Many are giving themselves a...