Tag Archives: Midsummer Night's Dream

Dreaming of Travel during Covid

By Robin Bates | Published: December 21, 2020

A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Sea Fever", "Green Eye of the Yellow God", "Mandalay", "Milford Haven", "Rolling English Road", "Skye Boat Song", "Upon First reading Chapman's Homer", A. E. Housman, COVID-19, Crown, G.K. Chesterton, J. Milton Hayes, John Keats, John Masefield, Kenneth Grahame, Loveliest of Trees, Michael Drayton, Midsummer Night's Dream, Outlanders, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Henry Boulton, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, wind in the willows | Comments closed

The Bard Answers Pestilence’s Challenge

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2020

In Emily St. John Mandel’s dystopia “Station Eleven,” people turn to Shakespeare in a world that has been devastated by pandemic.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged COVID-19, Emily St. John Mandel, Midsummer Night's Dream, pandemics, Station Eleven, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Desire vs. Law in Shakespeare, Euripides

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2019

If a play turns comic or tragic often depends how how the clash between law and desire is negotiated.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacchae, Comedy, Desire, Euripides, law, Midsummer Night's Dream, tragedy, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Check Out the Bard for Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 30, 2019

Shakespeare does a great Halloween. Check out Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Halloween, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Shakespeare Hated Bullies

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2019

Tuesday Last week a reader accused me of anti-Semitism for defending Merchant of Venice. While I’m always willing to learn new things about myself—personally, I think I have more trace elements in my system of sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, and ableism than of anti-Semitism—the response sent me back to early recollections of the play. For […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-Semitism, bullying, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Teaching Lit in Ljubljana

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2018

I share my experiences teaching Shakespeare and post-colonial literature in Slovenia.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Midsummer Night's Dream, Prešeren (France), Romeo and Juliet, travel abroad, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Fishing in the Mind

By Robin Bates | Published: July 12, 2018

Thursday Can art be so vivid that it supersedes actual experience? Billy Collins makes such a claim in “Fishing on the Susquehanna in July,” where he conjures up images that may resonate with those who fish, even though Collins isn’t among them. His own experience, he freely admits, comes from museum paintings. Art precedes life, […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged artistic imagination, Billy Collins, fishing, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Williams Shakespeare | Comments closed

Nature Lit Has Healed for Centuries

By Robin Bates | Published: December 5, 2017

For years my Intro to Lit class has had a nature theme.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacchae, Barbara Kingsolver, climate change, environmental issues, Euripides, Flight Behavior, John Keats, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Midsummer Night's Dream, nature poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wendell Berry, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Year of the Flood | Comments closed

Shakespeare for a Midsummer Wedding

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2017

A couple of years ago a former student opted for a “Midsummer Night’s Dream”-themed wedding. For many reasons, it was a perfect choice.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Marriage, Midsummer Night's Dream, ritual, sexuality, Weddings, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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