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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Teaching Lit in Ljubljana
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Midsummer Night's Dream, Prešeren (France), Romeo and Juliet, travel abroad Comments closed
An Incel Killer and an English Major
Maura Binkley was an English major killed by an incel killer in a Tallahassee yoga studio. Her department chair turned to Shakespeare in his grief.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hamlet, King Lear, Maura Binkley, Othello, Tallahassee yoga killing Comments closed
Blackburn Unsexes Herself over Guns
Tennessee Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn’s insensitivity towards gun victims invites comparisons with Lady Macbeth.
Sen. Flake Is No Hamlet
Comparisons of Sen. Flake to Hamlet over the Brett Kavanaugh is an insult to Hamlet.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hollow Men", Brett Kavanaugh hearing, Hamlet, Jeff Flake, Republican moderates, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
Baldwin on Making Education Relevant
Baldwin’s “Essays to Teachers” reminds them of what education should really be about.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Invisible Man, James Baldwin, Julius Caesar Ralph Ellison, Letter to Teachers, racism, Terrorism Comments closed
What Lit Is Good For–A Debate
Thursday Tim Parks has written a provocative essay for The New York Review of Books, asking, Is literature wise? In the sense, does it help us to live? And if not, what exactly is it good for? If you follow this blog, you already know my answers: –Yes, literature is wiser than we are (and […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Herbert Marcuse, King Lear, Little Dorrit, Madame Bovary, Tempest Comments closed
Iago Trump Whispers Poison into Our Ears
Of all Shakespeare characters, Trump, driven by racial resentment and thriving on chaos, may most resemble Iago.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Othello, racial resentment, racism Comments closed
My Three Book Projects
In which I share my first three sabbatical–I mean retirement–book projects.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Sir Gawai, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, William Wordsworth, Writing Comments closed
Mike Pence=Elmer Gantry + Uriah Heep
Columnist George Will calls Mike Pence a cross between Elmer Gantry and Uriah Heep. I see the two and raise to a Dante sycophant and Shakespeare’s Cassius.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Dante, David Copperfield, Elmer Gantry, Inferno, Julius Caesar, Mike Pence, Sinclair Lewis Comments closed