Shakespeare charts the way to new kinds of relationships in his cross-dressing comedies.
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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Mandela Inspired the World
An Elizabeth Alexander poem to remember Nelson Mandela and a past post on how he turned to Shakespeare in prison.
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Haiyan, Climate Change Denial, & Lear
“King Lear” gives us language to describe Typhoon Haiyan and also a framework to understand climate change denialism.
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Disaster Ahead, No More Fantasizing
Can the Tea Party move beyond fantasies and deal with the world as it really is? Shakespeare and Yeats weigh in.
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A Plague on BOTH Houses? No, Only One
“A plague on both your houses” doesn’t work for Mercutio or for citizens today.
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Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
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