The world’s wealthiest man attempted comedy the other night but was booed off the stage. Shakespeare would understand.
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Tag Archives: Twelfth Night
Musk Needs a Shakespearean Fool
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Confused about Gender? Read 12th Night
“12th Night” shows that gender is far more fluid than the right likes to think. We all need to acknowledge this.
Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio
Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.
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“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships
“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.
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Read “12th Night” for Relationship Advice
In their essays on “Twelfth Night,” my students showed they are hungry for authentic relationships.
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Condemned to Read Dickens, Austen
A British judge has ordered a white supremacist to read Dickens and Austen. Why these authors.
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Same-Sex Desire in the Sonnets
Wednesday If you want a one-stop article about the same-sex desire expressed in Shakespeare’s first 126 sonnets, Sandra Newman’s recent Aeon article is the place to go. Newman neatly summarizes the historical debates over the sonnets and pretty much puts the matter to rest: they really are expressions of homosexual love from Shakespeare to a […]
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