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Apr.22.2009
We've had "Talk Like a Pirate Day," and I wonder if it will be any less popular next year now that America's become acquainted with modern pirates. Not to long ago we had National Cleavage Day. You figure that out. And I've learned that this Thursday is Talk Like Shakespeare Day in...
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Jun.29.2008
I won't restrain myself when given the chance to introduce Kafka into a Shakespeare discussion.
From Zadie Smith's review in the online New York Review Of Books concerning "The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay" by Louis Begley comes this...
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Jun.28.2008
I was thinking about Shakespeare, as so many of you are right now, and I came across this review of Lunatic In My Head (Penguin/Zubaan, 2007). In the book, one of Hasan’s three protagonists teaches As You Like It to her students: http://pratilipi.in/?p=122
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Jun.24.2008
Belle Yang has been discussing King Lear lately with other Red Roomers, that epic tragedy of a dad who has some issues with his daughters. I haven't read King Lear yet nor have I seen it performed, although I hope to one day. I am familiar with the story because I read A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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Jun.02.2008
Saturday night I received a surprise birthday gift with a ticket to Pericles, a William Shakespeare play that was debuting at the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda. One of my best friends couldn’t go because she wasn’t feeling well so she offered the ticket to me. At first I wasn’t sure...
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Apr.18.2008
I've been listening to Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles on audio book. Back when I was a kid, I loved everything about royalty, princes and princesses. When I was nine, my mother woke me up at six-thirty in the morning to watch Prince Charles get married to Princess Diana. I remember...
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