Tag Archives: William Shakespeare

Faced with Bombs, Be Brutus, Not the Mob

By Robin Bates | Published: April 18, 2013

To politicians who make irresponsible claims after an incident like the Boston Marathon bombing, Shakespeare has a warning and a model to follow.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2013

Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2013

Some of Pope Benedict’s retirement demands sound like King Lear’s.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2013

Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is the perfect play for Valentine’s Day.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2013

Shakespeare is so pervasive in the language that we are often oblivious when we are quoting him.

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By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2012

A copy of Shakespeare’s works that circulated through apartheid-era prisons shows the Bard providing solace for the prisoners.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2012

The David Petraeus affair–is it 19th century melodrama or high tragedy?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2012

Boxer Orlando Cruz has just come out, bringing to mind Shakespeare’s hyper-masculine gay characters.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2012

“Sandy” conjures up for me a traumatic childhood reading experience along with a passage from “The Tempest.”