(The women pictured above is most certainly American, and the only person on the planet who really ought to be wearing Wranglers, unless she is
Friends, Romans, lend me your ears! I am almost done with the Shakespeare project! More than eighteen months later and after a few false starts
My Shakespeare Project is nearing its final assignments. I’ve got four more plays to go now that Othello is complete: Coriolanus and King Lear, neither
Last week I returned from a trip to Upper Michigan, a place I hadn’t set foot in since the summer of 1992 when I was
All’s Well That Ends Well is a late-phase work from 1604-1605, well toward the end of Shakespeare’s career. Queen Bess had been dead for some
My salad days,When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,To say as I said then. – Cleopatra, Act I, Sc. 5 “As a great
This week is the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, compiled and printed by his friends seven years after his death. Thanks,
Photo by Sergio García on Unsplash Timon of Athens (rhymes with “Simon”) was written by Shakespeare (whatever that means) in 1605-1606. Queen Elizabeth I had
Anne Street, Dublin – Photo by Gregory DALLEAU on Unsplash I do actually think about things other than Shakespeare when I’m prepping for an essay.
Troilus and Cressida (1601-ish) is a play largely faded from popular reference. No one even mentions Troilus anymore, and Cressida mostly sounds like a used