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What Shakespeare Taught Me About World Politics
William Shakespeare was one smart dude when it came to understanding people, particularly nasty people who abuse others. When I was taking courses about his plays during my undergrad days, I didn't know at...
4 commentsGet Some Action
Based on extensive experience critiquing, editing, writing, workshopping, and even getting two masters degrees, I'm going to outline a few of the most common writing problems that people encounter. This...
1 commentMovie Rants
General consensus was that Da Vinci Code failed because it didn't live up to the book, though I've never read the book, so I'll just judge the movie on it's own merits; this was a poorly put together movie...
1 commentOde to a love forgotten
I met the dear Ophelia Upon the western stair Through some columns of transport Into the wild air. The whipping wind blew thru her hair While her eyes were infused with joy But like a flower...
3 commentsFamous First Lines: Hamlet
It is significant that several other characters get to speak (at great length, and -- depending on the production -- in a mysteriously boring manner) before Hamlet gets a word in (under his breath, too). He...
26 commentsToo Much Love Is More Than Enough
Struggling with two opposing forces; moral integrity or avenge a loving father's murder, Hamlet thwarts his life into a downward spiral. Hamlet struggles to separate his tempation to wreck justice for the...
0 commentsBard Droppings: Hamlet Act 1
Act 1 Scene 1-So basically Hamlet starts with three guys who think they’ve seen a ghost, so they decide to hang out late at night and see if the ghost shows up and it does. So they ask the ghost to...
8 commentsSPINE-TINGLING LAW OF ATTRACTION
• NYC: HAMLET ON BROADWAY In HAMLET, Shakespeare’s definitive tragedy, the King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet (Jude Law) determines to avenge his father’s death with...
1 commentWhy Hamlet Is a Great Work
One day I was walking through Barnes and Noble and I came upon, as I usually do, the Shakespeare section. William Shakespeare is probably the only author with his own section at the bookstore. There was...
0 commentsThe Role of Hendiadys in Hamlet
liam Shakespeare is unarguably one of the most influential writers of all time. He penned thirty-seven plays and one hundred fifty four sonnets, created an estimated seventeen-hundred new words of...
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