The Guardian Poem of the Week is a sonnet (actually two) from Michael Drayton's Idea's Mirror, of all things:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/14/poem-of-the-week-sonnets-from-ideas-mirror-by-michael-

Human or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems?http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/27/480639265/human-or-machine-can-you-tell-who-wrote-these-poemsRead more... )

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/08/it-was-pretty-damn-wonderful-actually.htmlRead more... )

My mother, who is rather Shakespeare-phobic (though she will go see plays or watch movies with me if I make her), called me back today to tell me that she'd missed the bit of The Daily Show that mentioned Richard II. We got into a conversation about how she should read Shakespeare, which she usually ignores, but today she commented that she was ( Read more... )

Though if anyone can tell me what is happening in this picture, I would appreciate it ( Read more... )

Shakespeare's Sonnets audiobook, read by various actors, including David Tennant
(link from who_daily)
http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/195612.htm

(He's the audio sample, yay!)

Gee thanks, SparkNotes 2009 Everyday Shakespeare Calendar! I could not possibly have figured out what "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" meant without you ( Read more... )

So I had this dream last night that I was supposed to be teaching, only I mixed up the dates and thought that it was the day before I normally teach, so I wasn't prepared--didn't have a handout or notes or anything. I went to class, and then some other people showed up for another class *after* mine; their room had been double-booked, so they were ( Read more... )

I have a really hard time reading or watching things about the plague. (When my friend and I went to the Museum of London in August, we were practically the only people who didn't stop to watch the video about the Black Death ( Read more... )

I...don't think there are words enough for how much I hated the finale of Doctor Who. So much was so wrong. And it wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't really loved so much of the season, especially after the first two-parter. And I know that I'll wind up watching S4, because of David Tennant if nothing else, but it's bad when you kind of wish that a ( Read more... )