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On Shakespeare and Puking
January 22nd, 2013 | Shakespeare | journalpulp | 2 Comments
Of the nearly 18,000 written words in Shakespeare’s oeuvre, over 1,700 are seen for the first time in his works. This doesn’t necessarily mean he coined all those words — and in fact many of them most likely existed in other languages, like Latin, for a very long time before Shakespeare anglicized them. New words [...]
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Unsex Me Here
May 6th, 2012 | Shakespeare | journalpulp | 5 Comments
This is a famous and often misunderstood line from Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5), spoken by the unforgettable Lady Macbeth, who says: The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to [...]
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Heart Of My Heart
April 3rd, 2012 | Shakespeare | journalpulp | 3 Comments
Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield. Wrote Charles Dickens. Where does that phrase “heart of hearts” come from? Well, nowhere. It’s a perversion of Shakespeare’s heart of heart, which appears in Hamlet (Act 3, scene 2, 71-74): Hamlet: Give me that [...]
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Shakespeare Glimpsed?
March 20th, 2012 | Shakespeare | journalpulp | 4 Comments
William Shakespeare — who’s remarkable for so many things that it’s easy to forget the thing he’s perhaps most remarkable for: the fact that he doesn’t reveal himself in any of his plays — was born in 1564, in Stratford, a tiny village which at that time had a population of approximately 1,500 people. In [...]
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The Ides Of March
March 15th, 2012 | Shakespeare | journalpulp | No Comments
Ceasar: The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone. – Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1. But is Shakespeare really all that? Click-click
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