Shakespeare undoubtedly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of authors that classical educators most highly esteem. Other than Homer, and maybe Virgil, what author could possible bump the Bard from such a sculpture? Given that, we classical educators rightly feel the need to give our students a healthy dose of his canon. But that’s easier said […]
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Like most people, I have had a particular definition of rhetoric that has guided my understanding and application of it for a while. That definition, though, was not my original understanding of rhetoric, and it has recently been modified once again. What fascinates me about my changing understanding of rhetoric is the effect it has
Join Leah Lutz, Head Mentor of our West Coast Apprenticeship and LTW Director, for a week-long online study of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. Open to students, parents, and teachers | 4:00 – 5:30 pm (EST) each day As a participant, you will contemplate questions like . . . Should Don
“When he is fully trained, the disciple will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:40).
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There are some obvious choices, of course: The Hamlets and Beatrices and Falstaffs and Prosperos. And you wouldn’t be wrong to choose any of these. But there are also many wonderful characters who are lesser known or are secondary characters. What about you, who is your favorite Shakespeare character?
And then there were two. After four rounds of voting you have eliminated 30 of Shakespeare’s plays leading to our final matchup: Hamlet vs Much Ado About Nothing. Make your pick. Vote in the final round now. Final Four results: Hamlet defeated King Lear with 74% of the vote. Much Ado About Nothing defeated Macbeth
An excerpt from Louis Markos’ new handbook, C.S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education, published by Classical Academic Press
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And then there were four. After three rounds of voting, together we have have eliminated 28 of Shakespeare’s plays and we’re down to only Hamlet, King Lear (which won by only one vote over Henry V), Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. Vote now in the round 4 as we eliminate two more plays. Round
And then there were eight. After two rounds of voting, together we have have eliminated twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays and we’re down to only Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Henry V, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Vote now in the round 3 as we eliminate four more plays.
While round one of our Bard Madness literature bracket didn’t provide a lot of suspense, round two promises to be a doozy. The first sixteen matchups went mostly chalk (that is, the higher seeds won) in dominant fashion, but in round 2 we have matchups like these to vote on: Julius Caesar vs Twelfth Night
I’ve read that people become happier around 50 and I’ve wondered why. I figure it probably has something to do with time. Perhaps people in their later years accept that they cannot escape time, both its raveges and its potentials. When one is younger, perhaps, he can cling to the delusion that a decision can
