“The Tempest” fits magically into a fantasy course.
Tag Archives: Tempest
Prospero’s Magic, a Model for Fantasy Lit
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Shakespeare Was Mandela’s Lifeline
A copy of Shakespeare’s works that circulated through apartheid-era prisons shows the Bard providing solace for the prisoners.
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Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
“Sandy” conjures up for me a traumatic childhood reading experience along with a passage from “The Tempest.”
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Federer: Floating Butterfly, Stinging Bee
In the immortal words of Muhammad Ali, Roger Federer floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee as he won his 7th Wimbledon title yesterday.
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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, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, social media, Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare Comments closed
