Sentences with phrase «when shakespeare»

How did you get the word out when Shakespeare Society was new?

In the interview Ian McKellen said: «When Shakespeare was writing his plays — 37 of them — 400 years ago, he didn't publish the scripts, they were for the actors.

And, clearly, a lot is lost when Shakespeare is rewritten.

What happens when Shakespeare's greatest love story gets redone by animated garden gnomes.

But this is Donald Olson's theory, that maybe, you know, this star westward from the pole was inspired by a thing that happened when Shakespeare was a youngster.

She marries a guy from Stratford, from Shakespeare's hometown, a guy named Thomas Russell, and we know that Russell is a friend of Shakespeare's, because when Shakespeare is writing his will he entrusts Russell to be one of the executors of his estate.

The poem hangs on the berry - bush, When comes the poet's eye; The street begins to masquerade, When Shakespeare passes by.

Not exact matches

When I got there I had a resumé and 10 years doing half of Shakespeare's canon.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

When it comes to using writing to tame your stressed out brain, you don't have to be Shakespeare — there are no points for style.

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.»

Though savvy investors, like Shakespeare's Antonio, have long understood the benefits of diversification, it was not until the 1950s when an academic named Harry Markowitz introduced research on what he called modern portfolio theory that people were able to understand diversification in an objective, mathematical sense.

When cheap imports dropped the bottom out of that industry I picked up a fast - food manager training program, and three years later wound up in college where I did very well (including, of all things, enjoying learning about Shakespeare and Henry Clay!)

In an English class, students were reading Shakespeare's «Macbeth» when the shooting began, and a Code Red was declared.

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 fear that I have not done it justice, rather as if I had said, «There are some interesting facets of English and Roman history, and many details of world geography,» when writing of the plays of Shakespeare.

Surely William Shakespeare did not set out to write great literature, nor Handel to write classical music; nor did the mother of John and Charles Wesley, when she spanked them for mischief, say to herself, «I am training up the leaders of Methodism.»

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.

As for my own conclusion, I have to protest at the way Miola seems resolved to pin me down to matters of purely biographical interest, when we are all agreed that very little is known for certain about Shakespeare and his religion.

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.»

When we consider the vast transformations of politics, culture, science, technology, and daily life since 1600, it is astonishing that we can read Shakespeare's sonnets and the King James Bible so easily.

When I was an undergraduate at Yale University, students flocked to Alvin Kernan's lecture courses on Shakespeare.

They also show why Lincoln in his own distinctively American way had the quality John Keats defined as forming â $ ˜ a Man of Achievementâ $ ™, that quality â $ ˜which Shakespeare possessed so enormouslyâ $ ¦ Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.»

Well, Harts - home will reiterate that possibilities, however restricted, fall short of the definiteness of actuality, and he will remind us that when we speak of Shakespeare we are referring to actuality (actual states of a man).

Bellow's novels convey this sense of fun — the same, one suspects, that Shakespeare felt when he was getting up his play on Midsummer's Eve, and that Oscar Wilde felt arranging a conversation over some cucumber sandwiches, and that Strauss felt when he wrote the notes for Klagenlied für der Rosenkavalier.

They also show why Lincoln in his own distinctively American way had the quality John Keats defined as forming â $ ˜ a Man of Achievementâ $ ™, that quality â $ ˜which Shakespeare possessed so enormouslyâ $ ¦ Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasonâ $ ™ â $ (p. 15)

Peter Levi, the classicist and poet (and former Jesuit), echoes this view when he observes that Shakespeare's «personal religion, so far as his plays reveal it» which is not very far» seems to have been something like Montaigne's with a touch of neo «Platonism....

Harold Bloom makes much the same (almost Christological) point in The Western Canon when he says with his usual lapidary precision that «the miracle of Shakespeare's universalism is that it is not purchased by any transcending of contingencies.»

Both Orwell and Shaw thus have a point when they accuse Shakespeare of having a philosophy that rarely transcends the hackneyed, time «tested saws of folk wisdom.

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

Then there is his pace of production: according to commonly accepted dating techniques» using the known dates of Shakespeare's forced retreats from London during the plague years, the year of his final retirement to Stratford, allusions to current events in the plays, and so forth» it seems that during his working life in London he wrote on average two plays each year until the death of Elizabeth in 1603, when the pace slackened to about one play per year during the Jacobean reign.

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.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

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.

Keats is saying something similar in one of his letters: «At once it struck me what quality went to make a man of achievement especially in literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

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.

In praising the unique skills of its secular author, Bloom has demoted the author's chief subject matter to the lowliest estate, «less mature and sophisticated than the aristocratic ironist J.» It is an odd day when the Bible is commended as a readable classic — on par with Shakespeare!

I'd hesitate to make that claim about Shakespeare generally, but I agree with Brantley when it comes to that odd beast Twelfth Night.

But what shall we do when Joseph Pearce comes along to say, in essence: «You're all stupid to think that Shakespeare is just like you.

When it comes to Shakespeare, new evidence is hard to find, and everyone is interested....

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In literature, Shakespeare employed them as a metaphor in «Henry IV, Part I» («Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...») This «sticky» comparison comes from the plant's nature to sting when raw.

When school is out, Shakespeare is in!

Actually Elneny made a career mistake rejecting Leicester who would've made him a regular and this is when he will evolve as a player rather than playing scared like he is now too worried where he'll be next week on the other hand Shakespeare of Leicester knows too well that Elneny can grow to a serious beast in this position that's why he went for him and believe will try again in Winter

Leicester City are searching for their third manager in the space of eight months after Craig Shakespeare's brief reign was brought to an abrupt end when he was recently sacked.

Shakespeare was only four months into a three - year contract when the board decided to act after losing faith following a poor start to the season.

Leicester City will be looking to continue their good run under Craig Shakespeare when they host relegation - threatened Sunderland at the King Power Stadium.

Will Shakespeare once wrote in rhyme and high jinks That the Fans they doth protest too much, me thinks Fans driven to despair by a Prince who became King In all but name, he controlled everything It was eleven years hence I remember the hour When Arsene the Prince had expanded his power -LSB-...]

When Craig Shakespeare replaced Claudio Ranieri in February he took the floundering Foxes back to those principles and steered them to safety while reaching the Champions League quarter - finals.

Leicester were struggling prior to Shakespeare's arrival and when the going got tough Mahrez, along with most it must be said, went amiss.