Just a quick blast on some cool stuff I just discovered…
Willful Pictures (twitter) is a small independent film production company out of New York City.
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Teachers Pay Teachers
Greetings!
Just a quick blast for today…
For those who haven’t heard of a great teaching resource (or a great resources for teaching resources), check out Teachers Pay Teachers, where teachers who have created great resources (handouts, lessons, units, worksheets, and the like), can upload and have other teachers download these resources to make their own teaching better. (could I use “resources” more in a single sentence? I think not.) The creators can charge for their work (or they can offer it free).
And why am I telling you this?
A look ahead?
OK, as I realized late last month, Othello is not going to go as quickly and easily as I originally planned (especially since I’m having a tougher time getting out of the post-mortem fog–not to mention a certain level of employment [or lack thereof] anxiety).
Happy New Year, by Janus!
Happy New Year!
It was a pretty good 2015 (until right up there near the end)…
Here’s hoping yours was a good, and that your new year is even better…
Oxford University Press: Shakespeare and Islam
OK, as I’m wrestling with getting back on track with the Moor of Venice, here’s something very cool I’ve found from the blogs over at the Oxford University Press…
Without Islam there would be no Shakespeare. This may seem surprising or even controversial to those who imagine a ‘national bard’ insulated from the wider world. Such an approach is typified in the words of the celebrated historian A.L. Rowse, who wrote that when it came to creatively connecting with that world, Shakespeare, the ‘quiet countryman’, was ‘the least engaged writer there ever was’
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David Tennant on Shakespeare and the 400th death-iversary
Here’s a great video piece, with The Economist discussing the upcoming celebrations for Shakespeare’s 400th death-iversary next year. Included is a nice interview with Royal Shakespeare Company “ambassador” David Tennant…
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A Reluctant Decision
Hola, readers.
You know the last couple of weeks have been rough.
Now with logistics still to take care of (including an ash-spreading at sea and an Open House celebration tomorrow), and my college-attending son home for the holidays, and well, those holidays, I’ve had to make a decision–albeit reluctantly–for the sake of my (and my family’s) sanity:
English Paper: Shakespeare Shakes Free
As I mentioned a few months back, I’ve gone back to school to get my masters; I’ve just completed the first course, Graduate Studies in the English Language, and for the class, I’ve had to do a couple of presentations, plus a paper. Over past few weeks, I posted the first presentation on word formation and blending, and then the second on shades of meaning in Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Those were just a warm-up for the final project, a paper discussing the stylistic elements that are found in three of Shakespeare’s sonnets and how they are reflective of his body of work.
A Passing
Last night, after a lengthy decline in health, my father passed away.
He was a man. Take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
I shall not look upon his like again.
- Hamlet, I.ii.195-6
Giving Thanks for William Sha–
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s something to either be thankful for, or to completely mess with your digestion of turkey:
Shatner does Shakespeare!