Shakespeare paper or bust!


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Until recently, I had never read Hamlet. I have still never seen a production of the play: not on stage, not on film. And yet, I am pretty familiar with this particular Shakespearean work. Somehow, throughout twenty-eight years of life, I have accrued knowledge of this play. I knew many lines before reading it (and was surprised by how many more I ( Read more... )

So many things to post about - yesterday's Annex story, the flooding we experienced here in Georgia last week, nattering about writing - and no time to do it in! I have Richard III and Henry IV breathing down my neck this week and it's a struggle to prevent Shakespeare's plays from eating me ( Read more... )

Yesterday, via tithenai, I discovered that it was Talk Like Shakespeare Day in addition to being International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Rapscallion that I am, I didn't even visit the website before engaging in the following conversation with a friend (who, for obvious reasons, I shall here refer to as 'cos'):

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Today, all my students failed my Macbeth test. I was wroth. I carefully explained to them the uses of deductive reasoning and how it could have been applied to the Matching section. I detailed how nearly all of the Multiple Choice and Short Answer questions were pulled directly from their study guides (which came directly from their quizzes) and ( Read more... )

Well, I had a conversation with my dad the other day about Shakespeare and our respective opinions of the Bard. Dad pronounced that he couldn't ever really get into the plays and I reminded him that the plays were meant to be watched, not read (which is primarily what he tried to do a few decades ago). I finished up talking to him with a comment ( Read more... )