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10 Nov 2021, 9:24 am
As it turns out, Shakespeare was wrong. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 9:05 pm by Danielle A. Schulkin
Even in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the Roman senator Cassius makes an attempt to convince Brutus of the public’s support by faking letters “in several hands … as if they came from several citizens. [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 8:13 am
"IN THE COMMENTS: J Oliver writes:Marlowe died in 1593, so he said nothing quotable in 1602, unless you believe his death was faked and he lived on in Italy writing Shakespeare plays. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 11:14 am by Eugene Volokh
Conversely, producers of a traditional production of Othello would choose a white lead actress and a black lead actor to achieve their artistic goal of faithfully representing Shakespeare's original work. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 12:13 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
In the aftermath of the November 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection, attention is increasingly being paid to the role lawyers played in the run-up to and aftermath of those events. [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 8:35 am by Keith E. Whittington
[The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes Michigan for its handling of Bright Sheng case] Music professor Bright Sheng showed his class at the University of Michigan the 1965 film of William Shakespeare's Othello in which Laurence Olivier plays the Moor in dark make-up. [read post]
16 Oct 2021, 1:08 pm
Chambers O let the Muse attend thy march sublime And with thy prose caparison her rhyme.More famously, there's this, from Shakespeare's "As You Like It": Good my complexion: dost thou think, though I am caparison'd like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my disposition? [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 10:39 am
Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Shakespeare in the Courts77 Journal of the Missouri Bar 132 (May-June 2021). [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 10:37 am by Christine Corcos
Abrams, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Shakespeare in the Courts77 Journal of the Missouri Bar 132 (May-June 2021). [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 5:01 am by Stephen Halbrook
Real-world events like Adams' speech and the habits of prominent Founders discussed in my initial post provide an important backdrop against which to evaluate the Founding-era understanding of archaic and ambiguous language such as that contained in the Statute of Northampton, which was enacted over two hundred years before the birth of Shakespeare. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 6:41 am
 Thus on the night of October 24, 1415, King Henry V gathered his troops, and as told by Shakespeare, gave this speech: If we are mark’d to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour....That he which hath no stomach to this fight,Let him depart; his passport shall be madeAnd crowns for convoy put into his purse:We would not die in that man’s companyThat fears his fellowship to die with us.This day is called the… [read post]
10 Oct 2021, 5:02 am by SHG
Supremes are often Shakespeare fans, so of course they are familiar with the phrase “doth protest too much, methinks. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 3:14 am by SHG
It was Sir Laurence Olivier playing Shakespeare’s Othello. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 10:29 pm by JR Chaves
Como recordó Shakespeare «El necio se cree sabio, pero el sabio se sabe necio». [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 5:17 am by Charles Sartain
Judge Wiener ended his dissent by describing Judge Ho’s concurring opinion with a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 7:39 am
" The "you" in that song is, the singer asserts, the Colosseum, the Louvre Museum, a symphony by Strauss, a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet, Mickey Mouse, etc. [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 7:44 am
Folklorists have suggested that 'fairies' arose from various earlier beliefs, which lost currency with the advent of Christianity.....Lots more at the link (to Wikipedia), including material about the King of the Fairies, Oberon, familiar to us from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (my favorite Shakespeare play). [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 5:01 am by Fred Shapiro
Thus William Shakespeare and Donald Trump coexist in these pages. [read post]