A Georgia judge is guided by Shakespeare and sometimes cites the Bard in his rulings.
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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Courtroom
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged courtroom, judges, Justice, King Lear, lawyers, Merchant of Venice, Richard II Comments closed
Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath Comments closed
Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin Comments closed
Fantasy Provides Aid for Life’s Storms
As a child who grew up immersed in fantasy fiction, I knew, as deeply as I knew anything, that these books put me in touch with something that was deep and true. As I grew up, of course, I learned that I had to move beyond fantasy just as I had to move beyond childhood. […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Eve of St. Agnes, fantasy, John Keats, Sigmund Freud, Tempest Comments closed
Using Lit to Predict the Weather
Last week, while discussing “The Tempest,” we experienced a literal tempest. Expect cold temperatures today as I’m teaching “Eve of St. Agnes.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Eve of St. Agnes, Golden Compass, John Keats, Philip Pullman, Tempest, weather Comments closed
Prospero’s Magic, a Model for Fantasy Lit
“The Tempest” fits magically into a fantasy course.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged black magic, fantasy, magic, Science, Tempest, white magic Comments closed
The Skater below the Ice
This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Football, homosexuality, Michael Sam, NFL, Philip Dacey, Skating, Sports Comments closed
The World’s a Stage–Choose Your Part
In his senior project, one of my students uses literature to examine life and literature to engage with it.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged As You Like It, examined life, existentialism, happiness, Leo Tolstoy Comments closed