#Shakespeare

I think it was bad for the humanities when we all implicitly conceded that the cultural archives to which we had devoted our lives were just a disposable scratch-pad to
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The Victorians screwed up how we talk about geniuses forever. Turned Shakespeare and Mozart from talented and skilled men to freakish, unassailable superhumans so impossible to square with the actual
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October 22 and December 08 Same woman - same clothes And a William Shakespeare included because of course “We’re not gonna take it” H/t @Beer_Parade https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55227325https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/health/covid-respo
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I am a fully credentialed literature professor, and I endorse this message.https://twitter.com/kuangrf/status/1350559621036056580 It's just such an uninformed take, as well as being mean & small. Vergil's Aeneid? Homerian fanfic
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A thought on the Bad Faith discourse this AM: one of the more troubling implications of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and (especially) Coriolanus is that bad faith is an inherent part
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I see there's some fierce discourse raging about the "Western canon" and which books get taught to kids in school. I don't really have a strong opinion, but I have
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it's a damn fine day for Final Fantasy 12, the oft-maligned child that sometimes gets unfairly blamed for the relentless opium binge highs and lows that were Square-Enix's latter entries
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I really like Viz, but obviously they can make some pretty underwhelming decisions.But the ugly new covers for Urusei Yatsura pale in comparison to the fact that they're still using
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If you’re currently reading Susan Cooper’s The #DarkisRising (2nd book of the TDiR series, set around #Christmas ) here’s a thread about the folkloric sources of one of its most
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Christmas Reading: A THREAD For any English teachers looking for subject specific CPD/reading this Christmas and not specifically on teaching itself here are just a couple of my suggestions /1
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I think if you ask any villa fan what their expectations were, I can't think of anyone realistically saying we'd be where we are.I said a while back on @UTVpodcast_
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If I wrote what I know then I’d talk about Shakespeare. I’d tell you about Hamlet and why you should care about him and why he’s more like you than
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some "anne with an e" characters as poems: a thread (this is my creative contribution to day 5 of #AWAEAdvent – hope you enjoy! )#renewannewithane anne shirley-cuthbert: "trees" by joyce
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Each day it becomes clearer to me we're being steered into the abyss by people who've been pampered all their fucking lives and who've faced very little REAL hardship. Largely
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I've no particular desire to defend the classics but I do think the emerging dichotomy between toxic harmful classics and wholesome unproblematic diverse modern books is deeply reductive and unhelpful
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I won’t ever forget my college algebra professor who taught Math as if it was a Humanities subject (he habitually quoted Shakespeare & Socrates). He was patient & empathetic. He
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