Great Books Bracket Sweet 16
After the drama of round 1, round 2 featured 16 blowouts
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Shakespeare
Great Books Bracket Round 2
After a first round full of mind-blowing upsets it’s time for a loaded second round
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On Love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Monday was Twelfth Night, or the Twelfth day of Christmas in the old western church calendar. Advent season is marked by the 4 Sundays and weeks before Christmas Day, and the “Twelve Days of Christmas” run from December 26th to January 6th, the eve of Epiphany. So the twelfth night of Christmas marks the end
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Shakespeare’s Language and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
I was watching a bit of Brannagh’s Hamlet tonight and luxuriating in the language (some of which I understood) when my dear wife asked me for my opinion: “Do you think the groundlings actually understood what was going on in those plays?” I said I thought they did (but that’s probably a subject for another
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