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While grading papers tonight...
I found myself reading a very casual description of Henry V’s sex life [i]. Well, the paper was on 3.4, and Queen Catherine’s English lesson, in which she observes the similarities between… more →
The Blotted Line
While grading papers tonight...
daughterofben wrote 2 weeks ago: I found myself reading a very casual description of Henry V’s sex life [i]. Well, the paper wa … more →
Things learned.
daughterofben wrote 2 months ago: I’m TAing an upper-level Shakespeare course this year. This is a bit of a surprise as the cou … more →
Shakespeare: A virtual field trip
1websurfer wrote 4 months ago: Image by wallyg via Flickr An interesting site dealing with the life of Shakespeare. …it is on … more →
Thank you, Andrew Gurr...
daughterofben wrote 4 months ago: for pointing out that poets have been using the hackneyed “poet/know it” rhyme for over … more →
Shakespeare biographies.
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daughterofben wrote 5 months ago: This is mostly how I felt about Shakespeare and Co. as well. 22 June 2009 ~ St. Catharines … more →
I won't be reading...
daughterofben wrote 6 months ago: a number of books I collected, boxed, and placed into temporary storage yesterday (where they’ … more →
More to read.
daughterofben wrote 6 months ago: Visiting the library to pick up some Massinger plays today, I was struck (again) by the prolific nat … more →
Much adored papers.
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daughterofben wrote 6 months ago: About a month ago I promised to reminisce over my favourite papers of my undergrad. Now that I can … more →
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...
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daughterofben wrote 7 months ago: Superman as Hamlet. I don’t understand Superman’s logic here, but then, I’ve never … more →
Lawyers, leave Shakespeare at the bar.
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daughterofben wrote 7 months ago: A nigh-headline story in the books section of The Wall Street Journal today announces: “Justic … more →
Painful papers.
daughterofben wrote 7 months ago: I recently finished my final paper for Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Drama and, well, the final re … more →
Criminal predispositions?
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daughterofben wrote 7 months ago: The Kennedy Center is good at delivering the snark: they just don’t seem to recognise it in J … more →
Non-Accredited Book Reviews: John Updike.
daughterofben wrote 8 months ago: Updike, John. Gertrude and Claudius. New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. Putting aside the murder bei … more →
(Same ol') Brave new world.
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daughterofben wrote 8 months ago: I finished Click recently. The novel, a collection of inter-related short stories by ten different … more →
Things I'm currently reading (and the briefest considerations of them).
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daughterofben wrote 9 months ago: or, several more reasons why I’m doomed to fail at reading long novels. Cary, Elizabeth. The … more →
...and what happened to Antonio?
daughterofben wrote 9 months ago: I’ve always assumed that, since Orsino governs Illyria, the decision to kill Antonio or not be … more →
Making sense of Kermode.
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daughterofben wrote 9 months ago: In The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode offers to “make sense of the ways we make sense of th … more →
A New Year's Eve masque.
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daughterofben wrote 11 months ago: Enter BEN, at right, an older gentlemen, broad of girth. His fashionable “Twelfth Night” … more →
Germaine Greer...
daughterofben wrote 11 months ago: in Shakespeare’s Wife (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007), is clever, humourous, and well- … more →
