Ian Doescher’s new book imagining “Star Wars” as Shakespeare would have written it is very, very clever.
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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Shakespeare for Psychologists
Comic relief: one-liners about what Shakespeare’s plays say about you.
V-E Day, Whitman, and My 15 Minutes
My 15 minutes: during Slovenia’s 1995 V-E Day celebration I read Walt Whitman to a national television audience.
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Faced with Bombs, Be Brutus, Not the Mob
To politicians who make irresponsible claims after an incident like the Boston Marathon bombing, Shakespeare has a warning and a model to follow.
Poetic Excuses for Losing at Tennis
Between the motion and the act of my tennis game falls the shadow. Translation: too much thinking.
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Pope Retires but Keeps Perks? Hmm
Some of Pope Benedict’s retirement demands sound like King Lear’s.
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How Do You Like Love? All Ways
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is the perfect play for Valentine’s Day.
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