Visiting the World’s Largest Shakespearean Library
After studying Shakespeare in our homeschool, we’ve wanted to visit the famous Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. At last, that day came.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: Shakespeare
Decoding Shakespeare led to War Cryptography: Spy Museum
In 1957, Friedman and his wife wrote The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, where they revealed flaws in Gallups work, debunking her premise.
William Strachey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Jamestowne
Strachey’s story had me on the edge of my seat, intensely caught up in his word choice that made the drama come alive…resulting in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Renaissance Masquerade Games, Intrigue, Spies, Danger
Representing 1469, 1484, 1513, 1572, 1587, and 1598, I’ll let you keep guessing who we are, since this is a masquerade. Then we will reveal who we are.
Rhetoric Literature: Ranking our favorite Shakespeare DVDs
Queried by friends who lent us videos, I’ve was asked which was our favorite. Commentary follows of our growing perceptions of Shakespeare favorites.
Rhetoric Literature: Casually performing Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare was meant to be performed, to hear the beautiful language with rhythmic iambic pentameter aka reading his plays is 2D but hearing them is 3D.
Did Shakespeare exit The Tempest with Prospero?
Due to timing of this play in Shakespeare’s final days, some think Prospero represents the Bard ready to retire from the stage.
Rhetoric Literature: King Lear, Cordelia, and Anne Shirley?
1660s England saw Parliament dissolved, their king beheaded, and Oliver Cromwell’s rise to power, and found King Lear too depressing. They needed it tamed.
Rhetoric Literature: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and James I
This tragic psychological play examines a man who seeks political power after hearning a prophecy he’d one day become king, and in the process becomes mad.
Rhetoric Literature: The darkness of Shakespeare’s Othello
Set in 1870 Cyprus, four hundred years later than the original storyline, the Royal Shakespeare Theater play was extremely dark in tone for this deep tragedy.
