Is Jaques Bipolar?
Before clinical depression was first diagnosed, a person afflicted with the condition was referred to as melancholy. It was believed that our physical and emotional states were determined by the...
View ArticleLies Like Truth
So, this article has been getting a lot of attention on the Internet, and I feel I need to respond: In a radio programme to be aired today, Scots historian Fiona Watson and literary expert Molly Rourke...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: Sonnet LV
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rime; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time. When...
View ArticleGreek Tragedy 24
I was planning to post a Greek Tragedy 24 as a follow-up to last month’s Shakespeare 24, but it turned out to be much too derivative. Part of the problem seems to be that the two genres being parodied...
View ArticleArrested Development: A Freudian Analysis
With rumors of an Arrested Development movie in the works, contrary to earlier rumors that it was not, it seems like a good time to look back at the amazing TV series America discovered just a bit too...
View ArticleUnder the Influence
I’ve been asked by the good folks at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to participate in a project with other bloggers in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday. The idea is to describe in a blog post how...
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The Hartfordian Theory
The release of the birth certificate certainly proves that someone named Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. But Hartfordians don’t deny that Barack Obama exists; we just don’t believe that he is...
View ArticleTop Ten Shakespeare Retrochronisms
Don’t worry if you don’t know what a retrochronism is. I just made the word up. But feel free to throw it around at the dinner table and the water cooler; it’s a thing now. Let’s say an author from an...
View ArticleHow Real is Richard?
It’s been exciting to see Shakespeare so much in the news lately. The confirmation of the discovery King Richard the Third’s skeleton last week has thrust our beloved Bard back into the international...
View ArticleShakespeare Song Parody: We Love the Plays of Shakespeare
This is the last in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. So far, we’ve had one parody for each of Shakespeare’s 38 plays and one for the sonnets. We finish the Shakespeare Top 40...
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