…I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us once. Rene Descartes‘Who’s there?’ Bernado asks—frightened, confused, unable to rely on his senses—and Hamlet begins with the very question that shall haunt its lines throughout. Who is ther...
Bird Brian is right: being drunk is the best time to take on these unbelievable yawning Grand Canyons of literature. I'm hammered, in the best way, a long slow dinner of courses and cheese, slowly stewing in dessert wines and conversations. It's a thousand degrees outside, but I've got my warm lapto...
I've read a few of the more popular Shakespeare texts and still have many more to read. I would love to fully complete his entire collection due to the brilliance of the bard. But you didn't want to read about my meetings with Shakespeare did you? You want a review of Hamlet. And a review you shall ...
This play brings up a question I’ve always had with Romeo and Juliet: Juliet supposedly commits suicide in the middle of the play, but her parents are allowed to place her body in the family crypt on consecrated ground. Given that the Capulets are Catholics in Verona, I never understood how that was...
In high school, I made the mistake of thinking that Hamlet was an angst-ridden loser who was pissed about having to take algebra when he “knew he was never going to use it.” Not that I had any problems with angst. Big fan. I just thought he failed at angst. He wasn’t the dreamy eyed poet, he was...
William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is arguably the most famous play ever written in the English language; it presents the world with questions and characters that have been the subject of thespian and scholarly debate ever since the Prince of Denmark's first appearance on the stage of London's Globe The...
Once, there was a prince. He was an only child, and his mother seemed to love him. Then his father was murdered. Then, his mother married his father's murderer. The country fell into civil war.Makes you feel sorry for James I and VI doesn't it? Once, there was a prince. He was very depressed, ...
So there are all these expressions we use that we don't really understand. Take 'glued to the spot'. We use it, we know what it means, but I would say virtually nobody has ever actually seen somebody 'glued to the spot'. I have. I have watched somebody being so transfixed that he had to be forcibly ...
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