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200th Review. People often ask me, "Why do you keep reading Shakespeare (in English)?" Well, I'm not really sure. That's why I never know what answer to give. Mainly because it's meaningful to me, which invariably raises the question, "Why is it meaningful to you?", and on and on. First of all I...
Shakespeare, despite it's dated language, forgotten words, and belabored teaching in high school classrooms will seemingly never go out of fashion. I disagree whole-heartedly with Mr. Ramsy's assertion that "The very stone that one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare," in Virginia Woolf's...
What I love about The Tempest is the magical isle, its airy spirits and earthy Caliban. There is also some great commentary on politics, colonialism, and human ambition.I forget when I'm not reading it how much of it consists of some dudes being assholes.
I have always felt a little slighted about my middle name - Prosper - even though it is felicitous in the most literal sense of the word, I have always been a bit put out by it's oddness. I inherited it from a great grandfather, or some other, who I have never met. But as the years of easy childish ...
King Cymbeline is a supporting actor in his self-titled play. Around him whirl the plots of his queen, the petty violence of his step-son, the return journey of two prodigal sons, the romance of a princess with her low-born love, machinations of a mischievous lothario and a war thrown in for the he...
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