Tag Archives: Tempest

KC Royals Storm into World Series

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2014

The way the Kansas City Royals upended conventional wisdom in making it to the World Series is not unlike the chaos caused by Ariel in “The Tempest” to restore another royal to power.

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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2014

A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Fantasy Provides Aid for Life’s Storms

By Robin Bates | Published: March 4, 2014

As a child who grew up immersed in fantasy fiction, I knew, as deeply as I knew anything, that these books put me in touch with something that was deep and true. As I grew up, of course, I learned that I had to move beyond fantasy just as I had to move beyond childhood. […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Eve of St. Agnes, fantasy, John Keats, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Using Lit to Predict the Weather

By Robin Bates | Published: February 28, 2014

Last week, while discussing “The Tempest,” we experienced a literal tempest. Expect cold temperatures today as I’m teaching “Eve of St. Agnes.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Eve of St. Agnes, Golden Compass, John Keats, Philip Pullman, weather, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Prospero’s Magic, a Model for Fantasy Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2014

“The Tempest” fits magically into a fantasy course.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged black magic, fantasy, magic, Science, white magic, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

My Father Moved through Dooms of Love

By Robin Bates | Published: October 21, 2013

At my father’s memorial service, we read poems by e.e. cummings, Shakespeare, Jacques Prévert, and my father himself.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged death and dying, Scott Bates, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Shakespeare Was Mandela’s Lifeline

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2012

A copy of Shakespeare’s works that circulated through apartheid-era prisons shows the Bard providing solace for the prisoners.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Antigone, Henry V, Merchant of Venice, Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare in the prisons, Sophocles, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2012

“Sandy” conjures up for me a traumatic childhood reading experience along with a passage from “The Tempest.”

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Lit Featured in Olympic Ceremonies

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2012

The opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics were rich in literary allusions.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Jerusalem", Children's literature, James Barrie, Olympics, Peter Pan, Richard II, Sports, William Blake, William Shakespeare | Comments closed