Another of those exhortations to read more dead white men and less frivolous modern trash crossed my desk this evening. Graeme Whiting, the headmaster for The Acorn School (a...
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Tag: Shakespeare
Infographic: Fourteen Amazing Shakespeare Facts (Including a False One)
Saturday marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. In honor of that milestone, CBC Books pulled together an infographic consisting of fourteen "of the wackiest, weirdest and...
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Video: How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English?
English is a crazy language with irrational and illogical syntax which is largely due to a history stemming from Norman conquerors trying to hookup with Saxon barmaids. It has stolen bits and pieces from...
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Game of Thrones Actor Puts Gay Twist on Shakespeare in Audible’s “Romeo and Jude”
Audible UK has been producing original works since at least 2008 (*), and its latest original production is a clever twist on the historical footnote that in Shakespeare's time, all the actors were men....
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Infographic: Forty Sayings We Owe to Shakespeare
It's going on 400 years since Shakespeare died, but his impact is still felt in modern English. The following chart details close to 40 different sayings that are credited...
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YOLO Juliet Improves on Shakespeare By Adding TextSpeak
Over the past 400 years Shakespeare's works have been staged innumerable times, with each new performance making subtle alterations to the original. Few of those productions, however, have made changes quite as...
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