Someone I love very dearly has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I turn to “Sonny’s Blues” and “King Lear” to find adequate words.
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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, James Baldwin, King Lear, Lent, Oedipus at Colonus, Sonny's Blues, Sophocles, Suffering Comments closed
My Dinner with Mladen
An account of a dinner with an old Slovenian friend and intellectual.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged intellectual conversations, Ion, King Lear, Mladen Dolar, Oedipus at Colonus, Pierre de Marivaux, Plato, Republic, Samuel Beckett, Sophocles, Wayne Booth, Worstward Ho Comments closed
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.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Dpnald Trump, GOP, Hamlet, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, King Lear, Macbeth Comments closed
Shakespeare & Sexual Assault Politics
As he demonstrates in “Measure for Measure,” Shakespeare would understand the ins and outs of modern sexual assault politics.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Harvey Weinstein, Measure for Measure, Roy Moore, sexual assault Comments closed
Kelly as Coriolanus? Dear God, No!
John McCain is John of Gaunt to John Kelly’s Coriolanus. Guess which one loves his country more.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Coriolanus, Donald Trump, Fascism, Henry VI Part I, John Kelly, John McCain, popular rule, Richard II Comments closed