Tag: Shakespeare
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Teens and Titans Behaving Badly: George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra
Like a lot of people, what I was exposed to in high school was formative for me as a reader. I had been a “serious” reader for five years by then, but I feel like high school was where I had read enough to start having real opinions about what I read. And while many…
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Bite-Sized Bard: The Lambs and Tales From Shakespeare
“The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been…
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Greek Tragedy, Courtly Love, and Renaissance Satire: The Changing Face of Troilus & Cressida
“Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery! Nothing else holds fashion.” — Thersites, Troilus & Cressida Before we start this week, I want to apologize to all of you for a very stupid blunder on my part. Mainly that all of my notifications for this blog were being sent to a filler email account to which I…
