Bradley Greenburg

Bradley Greenburg teaches in the English Department at Northeastern Illinois University, specializing in Shakespeare, as well as film and creative writing. His publications range from articles on Shakespeare to T. S. Eliot, Pushcart Prize-nominated short stories and poems (Cimarron Review, The South Dakota Review, Midwest Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal), and a novel, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (Sandstone Press, UK: 2014). Follow him on twitter: @BGinCHI or email him at [email protected]
Fluid Dynamics: Sexual Displacement in Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’
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Fluid Dynamics: Sexual Displacement in Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apartment’

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 / 28 September 2023

Billy Wilder’s most savage of American comedies, The Apartment, skewers corporate culture and patriarchal structures while challenging viewers to read its spills and overflows as more than just accidents.

What’s Love Got To Do with It? Shakespeare’s ‘Venus & Adonis’
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What’s Love Got To Do with It? Shakespeare’s ‘Venus & Adonis’

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 / 18 May 2020

The worn trope—Time Devours All Things (tempus edax rerum)—is true for human beings, says Shakespeare: if you’re a mortal, death lurks at the heart of the very thing you most want. During a plague, or a pandemic, it’s wanting that endangers us.