Shakespeare

Shakespeare, the Bard, who lived from 1564 to 1616, through the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, was, arguably, the greatest European dramatist. You can find his complete works on the web, follow his life, and debate what he looked like.

Bloggers may be writing about modern performances, about the great controversy over whether Shakespeare really was the writer of "his" plays, or debate what he looked like. And the Bard now has his own personal newspaper.

He probably didn't say: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely bloggers."

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Shakespeare”

• Nikitas and The Long Division

  
  I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT — Authority: 98
  Over the weekend, the ball and chain and I went to see the Queens production of A Midsummer Nights Dream . It was a fantastic show. So Im thinking about Shakespeare. And thinking about as I grow older--now that Im married I feel older already--I find myself liking Shakespeare. That seems insipid having written ...
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• Sonnet 78 - So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVIII. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse, And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poesy disperse. Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing And heavy ignorance aloft to fly, Have added feathers to the learnèds wing And given grace a double ...
  14 hours ago

• Sonnet 77 - Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVII. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy minds imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste. The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show Of mouthèd graves will give thee memory; Thou by thy dials shady stealth ...
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• Sonnet 76 - Why is my verse so barren of new pride (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVI. Why is my verse so barren of new pride? So far from variation or quick change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To newfound methods and to compounds strange? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth and ...
  16 hours ago

• ASL Shakespeare

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 137
  ASL Shakespeare. How cool is that? The ASL Shakespeare Project began in 1999 at Yale University. A team of four people, two deaf, and two hearing, came together to translate Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into ASL. This core team was later joined by other Deaf performers. It took over a year to translate and ...
  19 hours ago

• Sonnet 75 - So are you to my thoughts as food to life (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXV. So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground. And for the peace of you I hold such strife As twixt a miser and his wealth is found: Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then ...
  19 hours ago

• Sonnet 74 - But be contented when that fell arrest (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXIV. But be contented when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away; My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. When thou reviewest this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate to thee. The earth can have but earth, which is his due; My spirit is ...
  19 hours ago

• Sonnet 73 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXIII. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take ...
  19 hours ago

• Sonnet 72 - O, lest the world should task you to recite (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXII. O, lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me, that you should love, After my death, dear love, forget me quite; For you in me can nothing worthy prove-- Unless you would devise some virtuous lie To do more for me than mine own desert, And hang more praise upon deceasèd I Than niggard ...
  19 hours ago

• Sonnet 71 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If ...
  20 hours ago

• Sonnet 70 - That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXX. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slanders mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heavens sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater being wooed of time; For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou ...
  20 hours ago

• Sonnet 69 - Those parts of thee that the worlds eye doth (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXIX. Those parts of thee that the worlds eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due, Uttring bare truth, even so as foes commend. Thy outward thus with outward praise is crowned; But those same tongues that give thee so thine own, In other ...
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• Sonnet 68 - Thus is his cheek the map of days (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXVIII. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, Before these bastard signs of fair were born, Or durst inhabit on a living brow; Before the golden tresses of the dead, The right of sepulchres, were shorn away To live a second life on second head; Ere beautys dead ...
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• Sonnet 67 - Ah, wherefore with infection should he live (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXVII. Ah, wherefore with infection should he live, And with his presence grace impiety, That sin by him advantage should achieve And lace itself with his society? Why should false painting imitate his cheek And steel dead seeming of his living hue? Why should poor beauty indirectly seek Roses of shadow, since his ...
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• Sonnet 66 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXVI. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry: As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway ...
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• Henry VI, Part III on Wordle

  
  SCC English — Authority: 134
  No 19. in our Shakespeare Wordles series : Henry V I, Part III. Wordles are created by Jonathan Feinbergs online tool here ; the more times the word appears in the text, the larger the word. In our Shakespeare Wordles , the entire text, including the name indicators of the characters before they speak, is ...
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• Acuisitions: Dalis As You Like It

  
  Double-Breasted Dust-Jacket — Authority: 113
  You dont get a cover image for this one, and thats probably the only reason I got this book. This weekend, the Lake Agassiz Regional Library had one of their book sales,and we arrived at opening time — which, we knew, meant we were competing with book dealers, book collectors, and frugal packrats (of which we ...
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• News in Our Shorts: Save Our Budget, Lose the Professors

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 507
  The Beavers really slaughtered the Bears in this week’s game against Oregon State, but tailback Jahvid Best almost made it literal with his “serious concussion” he received after landing hard on the back of his head and neck. We wish you the best, Mr. Best. [ Daily Cal ] You know what would really help solve ...
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• San Francisco Opera: Verdi’s ‘Otello’ intoxicates with jealousy and glorious arias

  
  StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast — Authority: 438
  Otello, often considered one of Verdi’s grandest and most challenging operas, is based on Shakespeare’s play by the same name. San Francisco Opera’s enactment of Verdi’s masterpiece displays both the blinding power of jealousy and its tragic consequences.It was a ...
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• OSU hosts a talk with the Royal Shakespeare Company

  
  THEATER TALK — Authority: 476
  (Caption: Ohio teachers participating in a workshop exercise with the Royal Shakespeare Company last summer in England. File photo) As part of the Arts Initiative at Ohio State University, several leaders from Englands renowned Royal Shakespeare Company will participate in a public discussion and reception Nov. 19 in ...
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