Sentences with phrase «even shakespeare»

First, it's important to know that Bitcoin is currently split into two versions, and the drama unfolding in that space is of proportions even Shakespeare couldn't dream up.

Even Shakespeare made a lawyer joke when he had one of his characters say, «The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.»

Over the years, the hotel has been frequented by Elizabeth 1st, Nelson and even Shakespeare, and has acquired enough heritage to be awarded plenty of poetic licence to be as quirky as it likes.

«The digital - only model is cool for cats — and even Shakespeare» (Sam Humphrey, FutureBook) Humphrey argues that digital - only (or at least digital - first) is a good choice for literary works.

No one's book is 100 % unlike anything else, even Shakespeare's work is a version of the same stories told time and time again.

Even Shakespeare had two different kinds of plays.

Their scenes together lack chemistry and even Shakespeare has a hard time convincing us that they could fall in love so completely in, um, what is it?

I don't like it how people say that they don't like the comedic relief of the film (Kat Dennings) when they do nt realize that even Shakespeare had comedic relief.

Even Shakespeare wrote in Love's Labour Lost «had I but one penny in the world thou shouldst have it to buy ginger - bread.»

Supporting Arsenal is not for the soft - hearted, it requires fortitude and an ability to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (see Rasp — even Shakespeare believed in luck).

When we consider the racial or ethnic dynamics of the play, two points stand out: First, racial difference is a source of animosity, suspicion, and disdain; second, despite the animosity, suspicion, and disdain, not even Shakespeare's fictionalized Venice can be described as a racist society in the modern sense of the term.

Not exact matches

Even the Bible insists that we finish what we started (2 Corinthians 8:11) and I'm sure Shakespeare and Ben Franklin had a thought or two on the subject as well.

Then she went to the Yale School of Drama for her M.F.A and was a shining acting star even then playing roles in Shakespeare plays to musicals.

Even in Shakespeare's play, «The Merchant of Venice,» written more than 400 years ago, the character Antonio demonstrates his understanding of the concept when he says: «I thank my fortune for it — my ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year.»

He makes his case, and even recites a little Shakespeare.

When all is said and done, Shakespeare (or Goethe or Henry James or Proust — name your master) doesn't offer a religion — much less a «universal and unifying culture» — of which most people would care to be members, even if it would have them.

I even have a problem with «Literature as Literature»: Reading King Lear, I don't think about Shakespeare; reading Paradise Lost, my eye is not on Milton, but the creation.

Shakespeare included some laughs even in Hamlet.

His True Hallucinations might even lead one to suspect that McKenna could find a place in his psychedelic utopia for a hedonist like Shakespeare's Falstaff, provided the latter could tolerate the substitution of mushrooms for his beloved sack wine.

Interestingly he has nothing to say about the Shakespeare of the Sonnets, or even of Romeo and Juliet.

We humans are aware of change in personal development, as described in Shakespeare's «seven ages of man»; so we are used to planning for the next day, the next year or even for a lifetime as when, in early adulthood, we choose a career or a spouse.

In these words he disingenuously glides over the fact (known to himself) that the earliest of those «other works,» Shakespeare's Religious Background, was published as early as 1973, when Eamon Duffy was presumably merely a student and when he might even have been influenced by my book» in which I devote a whole chapter to the «English Jesuits.»

There's no denying that in Westeros the men wield the physical power, and often exert that sexually, but this is a very limited reading of a story that, like Shakespeare's Macbeth, demonstrates how women can often hold even greater power and influence.

But because Shakespeare rarely uses an actor whose sole role is to play the chorus, he avoids the danger of didacticism, and lets the wisdom embed itself in the action of the play (which is why so many of Shakespeare's characters, including even Iago, both seem and do not seem to express the playwright's viewpoint).

But even among those who have no desire to address the Bard using Juliet's term for her Romeo («thy gracious self, the god of my idolatry») and who also feel no desire to enroll in what Harold Bloom calls the School of Resentment, Shakespeare's achievement is extraordinarily difficult to specify.

While his authorial modesty might elicit our admiration, we should not attribute it entirely to Shakespeare's personality, even if we accept the sonnets as autobiographical, where the persona of the poet can at times seem to grovel, even to the point of self «contempt.

But Shakespeare thrived in this demanding environment, and precisely because he tended by nature, if the sonnets are any indication, toward self «effacement, even self «abasement.

But even more daunting, his own productivity and protean creativity so defy the imagination that one might almost sympathize with the Shakespeare «deniers if the candidates put forward in his stead were not themselves such pathetic blue «blood epicenes» not to mention the fact that the achievement would still remain inexplicable coming from any human being, whatever the color of his blood.

As is so often the case in Shakespeare, the irony is doubled: Shylock gives utterance to an impassioned plea for the common humanity in all men even as he is hardening his heart to exact a terrible vengeance; Portia eloquently extols the virtue of mercy in the hearts of kings and seems promptly to forget her own speech when she comes to exercise power herself.

What may have kept interest in the subject alive and even provided an occasion for the composition of Shakespeare's play was the notorious affair of Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had served as physician to Queen Elizabeth.

Second, using a quote for shakespeare as «proof» that when someone protests too much, it's a sign that they believe the opposite is asinine, even for you.

So I created one, and read all the works in 2013 — even the plays Shakespeare c0 - authored — in less than half an hour a day.

Do we really need one more article, tucked away in a refereed journal that even most of its subscribers do not bother to read all the way through, on sea imagery in Shakespeare?

Focusing on the anthropology of the individual, we might perhaps concede that something like «objective immortality» may possibly be granted to Plato, Caesar, and Shakespeare, but that this is scarcely valid for every human being and even less valid for lower forms of life.

If I say Shakespeare is difficult to understand, anybody with even a basic understanding of the English language would realize that does not mean that there is nothing in Shakespeare's writings that is easily understood.

Upon finishing his day's work in formulating the philosophy of revolution, he would go home to spend his evenings reading Shakespeare with his family.

This is pure John Dewey, an important part of the postmodern American intellectual's baggage: It is not the destination of the march that counts but the bravery displayed along the way Deweyism (as even Lionel Trilling admitted) is not characteristic of the literary masterpieces of the West that are generally rich in «wise answers» — Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoevski, and, in fact, Percy.

However, even the biggest defender of half and halves would surely agree that a Craig Shakespeare and Tony Pulis combo was a step too far.

Even Leicester with Shakespeare were only undone, because the ref put on the glasses that moved the penalty area by nearly a yard to award Atletico a penalty!

Riyad Mahrez has also been seemingly ignored by Arsene Wenger because of the high price demanded by Leicester, but it seems that Roma have now decided to give Wenger some competition with a bid for the Algerian international, although, as confirmed by Craig Shakespeare, the bid was too low to be even considered.

The former Chelsea and Holland boss claims he even recommended Ranieri's assistant Craig Shakespeare as a worthy successor at Leicester.

To quote Shakespeare this is for Barcelona match called «To be or not be», and Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas, Pedro, are players who still make big difference and they know how to play big games under pressure.This season Barcelona dropped 18 points, 16 away from home, and just two at tome.However even if he know how important this match is for them, as Real Madrid still need to play away matches against Bilbao, and Atletico Madrid, and home ones against Valencia and Sevilla he still continues to play down hopes for the title.

And there was a St. Audrey in the 6th Century - she even made it into Shakespeare's «As You Like It.»

Juno is in tons of historical literature, even in works of Virgil and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare even used Ralph in Henry IV and it was also used The Portrait of A Lady, but despite Ralph's history, it has yet to make a comeback and will most likely get shot down by dad pretty quickly.

Even Juliet's wet - nurse (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) weaned her young nursling at three years old by putting a bad - tasting cream on her nipples.

Duh, forgetting my Shakespeare, even.

If you look at literature like Shakespeare, and at some historical figures like Sir William Johnson (a prominent pre-revolutionary leader in New York), you get the impression that it used to be normal for men, even much older men, to be interested in teenage girls.»

Whereas ejaculation is a somatic phenomenon, orgasm (as Shakespeare implies) is a phenomenon of the spirit, and even in human males a strict correlation between mind and matter hasn't been established.

Be it Shakespeare in the Park or sunset on the terrace, this unbelievably simple salad of fresh green beans, yellow tomatoes, and red onions makes the perfect accompaniment to your next enchanted evening.