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Category: Shakespeare

  • Two ways to consider clouds

    Edinburgh, May 2011 ––ARIEL.All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I comeTo answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn the curl’d clouds; to thy strong bidding taskAriel and all his quality. …..…

  • Wine and epilogues

    A Scene from “As You Like It” by Walter Howell Deverell If it be true that good wine needsno bush, ’tis true that a good play needs noepilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,and good plays prove the…

  • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    In his latest book 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, John Sutherland says this about Hamlet: “Every age interprets the play’s enigmas differently, sometimes wildly so (is Hamlet mad, enquired Oscar Wilde; or merely the critics of Hamlet?).…

  • How honest are you in your diary?

    This post was originally written on 18th April, 2009. Today, the webmaster told me a story from Greg Egan‘s Axiomatic. The story, “The Hundred Light-Year Diary”, is about a future invention that allows people to send messages to themselves from…