Tag Archives: William Shakespeare

Jan. 6 Reenacted “Julius Caesar”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2021

In certain ways, January 6 was a reenactment of “Julius Caesar.” Trump supporters, however, were more Cassius than Brutus.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 22, 2021

The modern Olympics owe a debt to poetry.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2021

In his joyous poem “i thank You God for most this amazing,” e.e. cummings uses his distinctive style in service of expressing God.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2021

Is rightwing militancy in America no more than “sound and fury, signifying nothing”? We can but pray that it is.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2021

Allan Bloom’s “Shakespeare’s Politics” (1964) argues that, through the Bard, we better understand politics.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2021

Trump’s big lie about winning in 2020, which has become gospel in certain GOP circles, brings to mind Falstaff’s lying.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 3, 2021

I share the Samuel Johnson chapter from my book-in-progress.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2021

“All’s Well That Ends Well” can work as an allegory for our polarized times.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2021

The Evergreen cargo ship, stuck in the Suez canal, brings to mind a Shylock passage from “Merchant of Venice.”