Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*

    *features mention of an assumed stillbirth Anyone who knows me well knows that second only to Jesus in my life is Shakespeare. Anyone who knows me really well will know that Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play, has been one of my favourite plays in the history of plays since… Continue reading

    The Stage and Beyond
    Chloe Zhao, Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, Shakespeare

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • Why I’m a Christian
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

Recent Posts

  • Why I’m a Christian
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama

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