SHAKESPEARE STILL ¦ THE ONE OR, WHY SHAKESPEARE MATTERS.Focuses on the kinds of plays made by William Shakespeare. Presentation of themes; Description of character in a tragedy; Topic of a history play.EBSCO_AspLiterary Cavalcade
Why do we still teach Shakespeare? A multimedia conundrum post COVID. I would like to acknowledge the custodians of the land from where I am streaming here in Melbourne, Australia: the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation. Their stories have been told, dances danced, songs sung, ...
The Bible--but all the Bible--and Homer, and Shakespeare: these are the supreme old novels. These are all things to all men. Which means that in their wholeness they affect the whole man alive, which is the man himself, beyond any part of him. They set the whole tree trembling with...
WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS Why the Novel Matters by D.H. Lawrence WE have curious ideas of ourselves. We think of ourselves as a body with a spirit in it, or a body with a soul in it, or a body with a mind in it. Mens sana in corpore sano. The years drink up the wine, and at ...
William Shakespeare's Hamlet proclaimed, "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!" Hamlet's point was that humans are a remarkable species...
Have you heard of Shakespeare? The fellow wrote around ten tragedies (in addition to the comedies, histories, sonnets, etc.) for the stage and every single one begins with some noble person in trouble for their pride and ends with dead bodies littered across the stage. The eighteen or so ...
In fact, earlier AI approaches could generate text that sounded vaguely Shakespearean when trained on the collected works of Shakespeare. What we (AI researchers) did not expect from GPT was a model that could also draw up purchase and sale contracts, argue the finer points of deconstructionism,...
Poor Decision Making In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet Didn’t Elvis say it best when ever he said, “Wise men say only fools rush into love”. This idea is expressed throughout the world because so many mistakes are made whenever people rush into love. It seems as though love has a ...
Where is their Shakespeare, Bach, Michelangelo? Where is their great architecture, their great inventions? civilizations? What have they left behind that is worth anything? They produce kitsch. Pop culture. Low-brow comedy. Bottom of the barrel culture. They are destroyers–just look at what ...
Why Knot? an Introduction to Knots, Splices & Rope Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot. --William Shakespeare Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different. --Fred Rogers ...