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Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
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Haiyan, Climate Change Denial, & Lear
“King Lear” gives us language to describe Typhoon Haiyan and also a framework to understand climate change denialism.
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Pope Retires but Keeps Perks? Hmm
Some of Pope Benedict’s retirement demands sound like King Lear’s.
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LeBron Toys with Foes as Gods with Lear
Lebron James is to opponents as the gods are to King Lear.
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Hurricanes Make Us All Poor, Infirm, Weak
The onslaught of Hurricane Sandy reminds us of King Lear’s storm experience.
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To Esmé and Alban with Love (No Squalor)
With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.
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Shakespeare with a Smart Phone
The plays would have been different if Shakespeare’s characters had had access to social media.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, social media, Tempest, Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare Comments closed
King Lear’s Sexual Epithets vs. Women
It’s not only Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher who are use sexual epithets to denigrate women. King Lear does it too.
Which Shakespearean Hero Is Murdoch?
So which Shakespeare hero is Rupert Murdoch? Marche floats the names of Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Richard II and Richard III. I’d peg him as Iago.
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