Our English Department’s Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony included passages from Willa Cather, Shakespeare, and Emily Dickinson.
Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Inducting Students into an Honor Society
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Weather Report: Death’s Untimely Frost
Having winter intrude upon our spring has me quoting Burns and Shakespeare.
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Battered by a Raging Stormy
Stormy Daniels’s power over Donald Trump brings to mind various literary storms, such as Lear’s and those described by Mary Oliver and H.D.
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Corruption Starts at the Top
The spread of Trumpian corruption is an instance of the fish rotting from the top. “King Lear” shows this process at work.
Act in All Things as Love Will Prompt
My lectures on Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Shakespeare and Sophocles all seem to track back to Lent these days.
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My Dinner with Mladen
An account of a dinner with an old Slovenian friend and intellectual.
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Tearful at Prospero’s Farewell
Prospero’s final speech unexpectedly moved me to tears as I read it aloud recently to my British Fantasy class.
Trump & GOP as Shakespearean Drama
To see the decline of the GOP as a Shakespeare drama, one must draw on “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,,” “Henry IV,” and “King Lear.” And throw in Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus.”
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