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20 Shakespeare Quotations To Celebrate The Birth of a Master
“To be or not to be” may very well be one of the most famous Shakespeare quotes ever written. But Shakespeare’s written masterpeices go well beyond this short line from a single play. To read more of Shakespeare’s famous words, read on… Continue reading
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night DVD: Performed in American Sign Language and English
William Shakespeare’s wonderful romantic romp Twelfth Night now can be viewed on DVD translated into a vivacious American Sign Language performance. Director Peter Novak presents a stellar cast of deaf actors in this unique production, including Adrian Blue, Peter Cook, … Continue reading
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Did William Shakespeare Visit Elsinore Castle?
In the mid 1580s, a group of English actors went to Denmark and performed at Elsinore. Three of the five actors who are recording as having gone to Denmark are also among “The Names of the Principall Actors” listed in the first Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623. Could Shakespeare also have gone to Elsinore? Continue reading
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Review of James Shapiro’s “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare”
James Shapiro asks why people began to question the authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare. Shapiro’s search for the source of this controversy retraces a path littered with forgery, deception, and a failure to grasp – or imagine – the boundless extent of the power of the human imagination. Continue reading
The Melancholy of Hamlet, by David Hurley
The Elizabethans inherited from the middle ages a view of man’s body as being composed of a mixture of the four elements, earth, water, air and fire, which were supplied by the intake of food. The liver converted food into four different kinds of liquids, or “humours”, which in turn gave moisture and vital heat to the body. Continue reading
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