Post-Gazette.com - Homer, Shakespeare, Cervantes – whatever their genres, the great authors were always great storytellers. Victorian novelist Charles Dickens…
If meeting three strange ladies in the swamp Seems ample cause for murthering the king To take his crown, turn…
"To take a song like Honky Tonk Woman and study it for its literature is fair enough, but if you…
Students in my Shakespeare class will be attending this play. Student actors at Seton Hill University are off on a…
Sure, Marty McFly Day is interesting and all that, but Oct 25, 2015 marks the 600 year anniversary of the Battle…
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I'm preparing to teach Shakespeare again this fall. Seton Hill offers the course every other year, so each time it comes around,…
The image (by Magee and Griffin) is an excerpt from a rough draft; a slightly different version is available as…
Blog ten-beat lines of verse, like Shakespeare wrote. But lazy bloggers, fill you not your posts With words transpos’d, poetic more to seem.…
In the past few years, I have noticed more students are applying the word "novel" to any text they might…
Jerz > Writing > Grammar and Syntax > The short version: "based off of" is slang. Use "based on" instead. When I first started noticing…
Do the spellings of cough & rough, pony & bologna bug you, too? English evolves organically, without our permission. Words…
The robots are quickly and surely coming for our jobs, and we've comforted ourselves thus far with a palliative that…
Now that Blockbuster Video has officially closed, I welcome Chuck Tyron's Storify aggregation, which turned up this goodie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM When…
King Henry rallies his troops just before the decisive Battle of Agincourt. From this day to the ending of the…
But luckily for you, one does not need to go to the Folger Library in DC to see these pieces…
For years, Shakespeare has been thought to deploy greater linguistic variety than contemporaries like Marlowe, Kyd, and Jonson; scholars have…
"It's not really fair to say, 'Look at this guy who died 400 years before I was born. He certainly…
The name "Bottom" in A Midsummer Night's Dream is already funny, but I expect my students will likely snigger at…
Does anybody know of any local (within an hour or so of Greensburg) professional or college productions of Shakespeare this…