Lecture on Othello:

Me: So Iago says to Roderigo, don't be stupid.  You don't have to have an emotion if you don't want to.  

End of year grading like mad.  The portfolios will take much longer than they usually do unless I think of something brilliant. Insert whining about other stuff blah blah blah--

But THIS is seriously exciting: They found the Curtain.  The Curtain!  No, not window coverings, but Shakespeare's theatre before the company moved to the Globe!

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 --from today's lecture on Julius Caesar.

"Brutus:  My answer is, not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."

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Caesar < Rome

 My school is doing Romeo and Juliet this quarter and I can't help thinking of one of my favorite versions:


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