Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Planning The Class

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We’ll start the semester with a viewing of Ridley Scott’s first feature film  The Duellists , and then proceed to the following te...
Friday, May 11, 2018

"Be Mind Full": Cawdor Castle Motto

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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Captain, Shakespearean

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Captain, helping: "Read your Shakespeare." Note: I was in the laundry room to settle the unsettled w...

Prepping for Class

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Shakespeare's Macbeth, of course.
Sunday, December 17, 2017

"Lay On, Macduff"

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                 I will not yield To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Tho...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Not as Obvious as It Ought to Be

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Teach the book on its merits, not on its laurels. (And by book, I mean anything.  I mean specific books first, of course, the ones by Hom...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Play-Time: From the Medieval to the Renaissance

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The manuscript poster-- Spring 2017: English 46A Come join the fun! I'll make it as memorable as I can.
Friday, May 20, 2016

Vintage: "To His Lady"

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Here's a decidedly vintage sonnet: October 6, 1983           First Assignment: Sonnet           Prof. Richmond's English 117S: Sha...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Waiting For Macbeth

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Seyton: sculpture mix; dark green, transparent brown, and celadon glazing.
Friday, February 1, 2013

Shakespeare: "Cabined, Cribbed, Confined"

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MACBETH: Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, As broad and general as the casing ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Study Session

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"The labor we delight in physics pain."           --Macbeth from Macbeth (2.3.46) I believe it's best to take that line ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Me: Scotch On The Rocks. You?

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Thinking about Macbeth and Macbeth .

Macduck . . . On The Blasted Heath

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The title makes no real sense, but I'm rereading my favorite of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth, and so I'm indulging myself....
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Marching Orders

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William Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; Oscar Wilde's  The Importance of Being Earnest ; Guy de Maupas...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Reprise: Ophelia II

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I'm not sure why I am drawn to such images, but I am . . . to the point of creating and documenting them.  "Ophelia, y...

Reprise: Ophelia

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Shakespeare: "If It Were Done When 'Tis Done"

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Light -- and dark -- reading.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Northrup Frye: Imagination Trumps Experience

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No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.  O...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

"Seyton!"

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I'm thinking of a particular speech from Shakespeare's Macbeth:  V.III. 23-34.  (Seyton is Macbeth's retainer and body-serv...

William Gibson: "A Walking Shadow"

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At the moment, there are two particularly resonating pieces in William Gibson's 1999 cyberpunk novel All Tomorrow's Parties that I ...