Tag Archives: William Shakespeare

A Plague on BOTH Houses? No, Only One

By Robin Bates | Published: October 10, 2013

“A plague on both your houses” doesn’t work for Mercutio or for citizens today.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 9, 2013

Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” offers a wish fulfillment that we can apply to the government shutdown.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2013

Two dogs we were keeping recently ran off, triggering a flood of anxiety and poetry.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2013

Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2013

Ian Doescher’s new book imagining “Star Wars” as Shakespeare would have written it is very, very clever.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 1, 2013

Teaching abridged classics to students with limited English, this graduate instructor discovered that much more came through than she expected.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 11, 2013

Comic relief: one-liners about what Shakespeare’s plays say about you.

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By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2013

Since starting to care for aging parents, I’ve become very impressed with Shakespeare’s “the world’s a stage” speech.

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By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2013

My 15 minutes: during Slovenia’s 1995 V-E Day celebration I read Walt Whitman to a national television audience.