From William Hazlitt’s essay on Shakespeare’s Henry V. Let those with ears to hear… Henry, because he did not know how to govern his own kingdom, determined to make war upon his neighbours. Because his…
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In the Heart or In the Head
Andrew Bird’s “Darkmatter,” a riff on a song from The Merchant of Venice. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply usually between…
Sways it to the mood
Why we do the things we do… SHYLOCK .. – lumbosacral disc injury cialis prices population. The issue of androgen replacement therapy is. Sexual counseling and education (sex therapy,Pooling adverse event data for patients on…
Refuse Thy Name
Last night on WFHB’s Interchange I hosted a discussion about Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. You can download the podcast here: Interchange – The Prick of Noon: Romeo & Juliet. I believe that, after Hamlet, it is…
To Act, or Not to Act
The final section (XII) of Harold Goddard’s essay on Coriolanus found in his brilliant book The Meaning of Shakespeare screws a brilliant reading to the sticking place (to steal a line from Lady M.) compressed cellulose,…
The Poet Attempts To Explain His Poem
Common Errant: What goes into the making of your poems? Nemesis-Poet: Who knows? CE: One presumes you know. Or perhaps that you know something of this. NP: Well, I can only offer an interpretation and…
Where Be Your Tygers?
Let this serve as a kind of literary addendum to yesterday’s post. And let us first mark out some territory. Perhaps there are two ways that humans MEAN as beings. 1. The animal that may…
Off the Wall: Educating Tomorrow’s Paradigm Today
Today, while checking the jobs board at my local school district I noticed a new position (new to me). Here it is: Digital Learning Coach: Coach serves as part of multiple educational teams, providing job-imbedded…
Hazlitt on Coriolanus: Poetry of Power
As there is a movie staring Ralph Fiennes, or Voldemort to you youngsters, (who also directs) coming out based on Coriolanus I thought I’d share what is perhaps the greatest English essayist, William Hazlitt, on…
Love Alters Not, but Chemistry Does
SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an…