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Monday, April 1, 2019

An Easter Meditation on UnShakespearean Language

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Every April Fool's Day I used to post a joke article about Shakespeare that I thought was funny, even if nobody else did. The first on...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Borges on Shakespeare

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I spent three times as much money acquiring permissions to create this book as I got paid to do it. First there was Penguin U.S.A., which ...
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Friday, February 1, 2019

More Things People Should Stop Saying Because Shakespeare Wouldn't Like Them

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It's once more time for me to complain about words and phrases that I want people to stop using. Instead, people should read Shakespea...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Shakespeare, "Black Mirror," and Free Will

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I recently saw an episode of the British series Black Mirror in which a slightly-on-the-edge 1980s game-designer finds himself controlled...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

For Shakespeare, Being Is Behaving

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I'm getting tired of the truistic (my invented word) argument that Trump's golem-like behavior (sorry, that was an insult to golem...
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

"Expose Thyself To Feel What Wretches Feel": Mark Twain's Shakespearean Fiction

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Last month I plucked from our shelves a Mark Twain novel I had somehow never read: The Prince and the Pauper. Perhaps because its pair of ...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Words and Phrases I Hate That Shakespeare Would Have Too

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It's time for me to list more words and phrases that people should stop using because I don't like them. I will explain what is wr...