Sentences with phrase «reading shakespeare»

The best releases can be understood by anyone, while the bad ones are the equivalent of reading Shakespeare in Morse code.

No one will be reading Shakespeare, or listening to Mozart or watching the latest tentacle porno online either.

It's the same trick English teachers use to convince us that reading Shakespeare isn't a colossal waste of our time.

On a mobile phone, this is almost a technical pilot because I don't see mainstream audiences reading Shakespeare on their iPhone.»

Whether you are reading Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Robin Cook's Coma, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, Suzanne Collins» Hunger Games or Steve Job's biography by Walter Isaacson, you are likely to encounter new words.

«The truth is, for many people, reading Shakespeare is hard,» said Professor David Kastan of Yale University, a special consultant to WordPlay Shakespeare, in a press release on the launch of the second title.

Overseen by his seventh - grade English teacher, Holling Hoodhood spends Wednesday afternoons reading Shakespeare, hunting rats, and learning the consequences of the Vietnam War.

Her long hair was streaked with gray, tangled and matted, and her eyes had sunk deep into their sockets, but still she reminded me of the mom she'd been when I was a kid, swan - diving off cliffs and painting in the desert and reading Shakespeare aloud.

And those Gypsy Supers and their loyalist employees can be wiring «New Brain Thinking» while parents still erroneously believe their child is learning science, history, or reading Shakespeare.

In this podcast, McKellen reminds us that much is lost in reading Shakespeare instead of hearing his work spoken and performed.

Hanna star Olivia Williams talks to Metro about her love for bears, reading Shakespeare with Joss Whedon and working with acting legend Kevin Costner.

They saw me reading Shakespeare on buses.

Conspicuous examples of such changes can be found by reading Shakespeare, the King James Version, and the Book of Common Prayer — in spite of the fact that alterations have been made in the last two.

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.

(«The idea that you benefit the insulted and injured by reading someone of their own origins rather than reading Shakespeare is one of the oddest illusions ever promoted in our schools.»)

«For many of us reading the Bible is like reading Shakespeare.»

Reading Shakespeare will do just as well if not better.

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

If you can not write in prose that has some measure of wit, best not to try at all... read some Shakespeare... he was a master of using the written word to express a wide variety of emotion and tone.

Just read Shakespeare in the original.

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.

It is assumed that if you have never read Shakespeare your life is less rich, since you may fail to appreciate the truths about life that his plays present.

But it is senseless to read Shakespeare using modern definitions for the words.

«It will be read by people who will possibly never read Shakespeare or Milton.»

A Harvard student will not so much be taught to read Shakespeare as learn how to «read» him, which means understanding the «dynamics of culture» encoded into his poetry and plays.

We don't just want to read Shakespeare in light of our assumptions about culture, history, and the human condition.

Tax thy brain, tear off every covering and lay bare the viscera of feeling in thy breast, surmount every barrier which separates thee from him of whom thou readest, and then read Shakespeare — and thou shalt shrink from the collisions.

You wouldn't expect a two - year old to read Shakespeare.

«I told her, «Summertime's a great time to read Shakespeare!»»

So that's one of the reasons I think that there haven't been like — you know, there isn't a whole list of books or, you know, works where people have tried to read Shakespeare's interpretation of the heavens from his works, because it doesn't — it's not something that pays off immediately.

Ricardipus: I doubt I encouraged anyone to take up genome sequencing, but maybe someone'll read some Shakespeare?

To ask students to read Shakespeare before hearing the words spoken — or before performing scenes themselves — is asking a lot.

When I was a teacher, my eighth graders and I read Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and discussed the similarities and differences between the sonnet and Bruno Mars» song «Just the Way You Are.»

This is a complete unit (part of the larger «Introducing Mr. William Shakespeare» package) that contains: 4 + pages on Shakespeare's life, world, works, and theater suitable as a handout or for use by you as the basis of a lecture; a set of research questions (with an answer key) keyed to the background sheets; reinforcement puzzles; a quiz with answer key, and a handout on how to read Shakespeare.

His teacher that year, Alan Osterweil, was dynamic and creative, encouraging him to read Shakespeare and memorize the leaders and capital of every country in the world.

I haven't read Shakespeare since college so my opinion means exactly less than zilch, but I have to say I'm curious.

You can read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as well as the famous Prophecies of Nostradamus in both French and English for FREE.

Having salespeople do data entry on a purchase order that is pulled from your store's point - of - sale system is like asking a third grader to read Shakespeare's Macbeth aloud.

Whether you are training him to sit or teaching him to read Shakespeare aloud without any trace of a dog accent, your pup will love the challenge and the extra treats.

You should read Shakespeare and then go take JavaScript, I guess.

You don't need to read Shakespeare or Dickens.

One only needs to read Shakespeare to understand how the English language has evolved.

Not exact matches

«I started to listen to music a whole lot,» he told Isaacson, «and I started to read more outside of just science and technology — Shakespeare, Plato.

Imagine for a moment that an English student proclaimed that after reading the cliff notes on Macbeth, he deemed Shakespeare to be overrated.

Perhaps it was a high - school English teacher, a woman who assigned her class Shakespeare plays to read and discuss for an entire year.

• Kalidasa, Śakuntala (Abhijñānaśākuntalam): As Kalidasa was «Sanskrit's Shakespeare» (though older than the Bard by around a millennium), and as this is his masterpiece, and as it was the German translation of this play that first inspired in Goethe the concept of «world literature,» one really should read it at least once.

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 crReading King Lear, I don't think about Shakespeare; reading Paradise Lost, my eye is not on Milton, but the crreading Paradise Lost, my eye is not on Milton, but the creation.

Sweet goodness and mercy, she was trying to think of something that nobody liked reading and came up with Shakespeare!

I was disappointed in reading Robert Miola's article on «Shakespeare's Religion» (May 2008) to see the truths of Shakespeare's plays muddled in the debate of whether they are Protestant or Catholic.

In order to best experience this «Star Wars» in its original, Shakespeare - penned form, I have decided to forgo seeing any of the cinematic adaptions until I read the play aloud, as intended by its author.