Casting about for a blog topic today, I thought to resurrect "Wednesdays with the Bard". Today, I give you a reprise of a post about William Shakespeare's sonnet, "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow", a "hold onto your knickers" reading of the same by David Tennant, and a few brief remarks.

Sonnet 2
by William Shakespeare

When forty ( Read more... )

I'm totally cheating today. I'm going to give you a full summary of Measure for Measure tomorrow, but today, I give you two scenes involving a novice nun named Isabella (pretty and clever and sister to a man condemned to die) and Angelo - proof that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (as my high school history teacher used to ( Read more... )

Since I am on retreat (run away! run away!), I won't belabor this post with the usual level of analysis. I simply give you William Shakespeare's sonnet, "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow", a "hold onto your knickers" reading of the same by David Tennant, and a few brief remarks.

Sonnet 2
by William Shakespeare

When forty winters shall ( Read more... )