Tag Archives: Hamlet

Hamlet Instructs the Class of 2015

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2015

Our commencement ceremonies included a reading of Hamlet’s advice to the players.

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Can Donne Help Us Cope with Death?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 12, 2014

Meditations on Margaret Edson’s “W;t”–with further reflections on whether Donne’s poetry can help us handle death.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Death Be Not Proud", "If Poisonous Minerals", "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", death and dying, John Donne, Margaret Edson, Margaret Wise Brown, May Justus, Runaway Bunny, W;t, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Textualist Judges Out of Control

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2014

Textualist judges committed the same mistake as formalists in ruling against federal subsidies for citizens who signed up for Obamacare in the federal exchanges.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Marvell, formalism, Obamacare, textualism, To His Coy Mistress, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

The Bard Could Improve Lawyer Behavior

By Robin Bates | Published: April 17, 2014

A judge makes his case about how Shakespeare can improve lawyer professionalism.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged courts of law, Henry VI Part II, judges, King Lear, lawyers, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard II, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships

By Robin Bates | Published: March 26, 2014

Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Lit Helps Father Support a Sick Child

By Robin Bates | Published: January 22, 2014

Jason Blake found himself playing literary roles when his daughter underwent major surgery.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Children, Don DeLillo, hospitals, role playing, sickness, Underworld, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Poetic Excuses for Losing at Tennis

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2013

Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Hollow Men", "Minniver Cheevy", E. A. Robinson, Marshall McLuhan, Sports, T. S. Eliot, tennis, William Gladwell, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Shakespeare with a Smart Phone

By Robin Bates | Published: April 25, 2012

The plays would have been different if Shakespeare’s characters had had access to social media.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Julius Caesar, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, social media, Tempest, Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Shakespeare Passages for Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2011

Shakespeare has memorable passages about ghosts that are appropriate for Halloween.

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