The anniversary of the death of the most famous and the most performed playwright in the world will be marked across Britain and the globe.Macbeth is about to open in Singapore,Romeo and Juliet in Brussels.Shakespeare's Globe is completing the first world tour,in which it has taken Hamlet ...
And so on and on, into modern times. But also (those Elizabethan-Jacobeans again) “The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite.” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (c.1595) Act 2, scene 6)“Your comfortable words are like honey...
Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare’s actual plays.If that is the case, then I welcome the trend.But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing.Shakespeare is a poet.His greatness is in his language.Reading someone else...
Over how many days does Romeo and Juliet take place? Over how many days did The Maltese Falcon take place? What is the climax of the book Hatchet? How many days does A Streetcar Named Desire last? How many books has Jon Krakauer written? What is the second book in the Hatchet series?
idea; he goes down into the underworld were people go when they die and he finds his wife and he sings beautiful songs to help him get through the underworld safely and he charms the leader of Hades and he gets his wife back. Orpheus agrees and says that he will not look at his ...
Garth Brooks pleased longtime fans when he finally released the studio version of his cover of A Star Is Born's Shallow as a duet with his wife, Trisha Yearwood.
a love story between Zhinv (the weaver girl, symbolizing the star Vega (织女星) and Niulang (the cowherd, symbolizing the star Altair (牛郎星)). Their love was not allowed, thus they were banished (放逐) to?Adapted from the original article at /posts/four_chinese_folk_love_stories.htm...