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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances and of essays on Shakespeare's plays and on the editing of the plays.Paul Werstine is Professor of English at... Read full bio

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Deer Park Broadcaster & Progress, March 12, 2010
...comet discoverers, Dr. David Levy, will present “Poetry of the Night: The Night Sky in the Time of William Shakespeare” on Tuesday, March 22, at the San Jacinto College (SJC) South campus. Levy has discovered 22 comets and works with the Jarnac...
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...and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore: 1984 by George Orwell A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Animal Farm by George Orwell Atlas...
USA Today, March 3, 2010
...readers: Little Vampire Women by Alcott and Lynn Messina (May 1) and Romeo & Julia & Vampires by William Shakespeare and Claudia Gabel (Sept. 1), HarperTeen. 'This genre can do well, as long as publishers are willing to keep it fresh,' says David Bryce...
News24.com, February 26, 2010
...A British antiques dealer has pleaded not guilty to stealing a rare first edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Raymond Scott appeared on Friday in a court in Newcastle in northeastern England. He is charged with theft, handling stolen goods and...
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...A British antiques dealer has pleaded not guilty to stealing a rare first edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Raymond Scott appeared Friday in a court in Newcastle in northeastern England. He is charged with theft, handling stolen goods and...
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...A British antiques dealer has pleaded not guilty to stealing a rare first edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Raymond Scott appeared Friday in a court in Newcastle in northeastern England. He is charged with theft, handling stolen goods and...
Maximum PC, February 25, 2010
...according to Bloomberg News.The cart will contain some of the best literary works from the likes of William Shakespeare and Mark Twain . Though only out-of-copyright e-books will be on the cart, it will be far from free. The title that will add crude...
Top Tech News, February 25, 2010
...library. Launching on June 14 and priced at $20, the offering includes 100 works from authors such as William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. Nintendo said readers can adjust the size of text, place bookmarks, and even download new...
Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2010
...is coming to America. The set will include 100 classic works of literature, including books by Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle. Another new Nintendo arrival will be the oversized DSi XL hand-held player. Set to...
Tech Herald, February 25, 2010
...will provide DSi XL owners with a wealth of literary content to enjoy on-the-go from authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and Mark Twain. Already available to Nintendo DS owners...
Southern Daily Echo, February 21, 2010
...writers while shutting a city library. Southampton is to host the touring display featuring a world-famous portrait of William Shakespeare never before seen outside London. The Chandos portrait, named after a previous owner, is usually housed in the...
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...d like to acknowledge those who've inspired this fable: Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Sholom Aleichem, William Shakespeare, Judy Blume and the Brothers Grimm. About Outskirts Press, Inc. Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom...
The Australian, February 17, 2010
...Poor old William Shakespeare, closing in on 400 years dead and still fighting to clear his name. Makes Rubin Carter look like a bit of a moaner, really. The Shakespeare authorship debate is...
Suite101.com, February 16, 2010
...both learning and research. Here is a roundup of some of the most used and useful websites about William Shakespeare and his plays. Scans of Original Editions of the Plays is part of the British Library's Treasures in Full website. It contains 107...
Helium, February 15, 2010
...are ultimately those in power. However, female characters may have some form of power by Jeffrey A. Moore William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello is considered to be one his most admired plays. It was derived from a sixteenth-century tale by Giraldi...
InSing.com, February 15, 2010
...the many-colored voice, the multiple sensibility’, which Smith illustrates using the likes of Eliza Doolittle, Cary Grant and William Shakespeare. Her default pronoun is always ‘we’, even if her reference points are hers alone. Writing about Zora...
Helium, February 13, 2010
...Tragedy of Macbeth is set mostly in the dark, reflecting a sleeping by David Aaron White Throughout Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the word 'sleep' many times, and often through Macbeth himself. When someone commits a crime, he or she is usually...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, February 12, 2010
...in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' -- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’m sure there are plenty of book clubs with ordinary names and plenty with no names at all and while I am sure they are...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, February 12, 2010
...in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' -- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I’m sure there are plenty of book clubs with ordinary names and plenty with no names at all and while I am sure they are...
Kitsap Sun, February 11, 2010
...and maybe a book or two while you’re here. *Perhaps the most famous writer of all time, William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are considered some of the best works ever written in the English language. Shakespeare’s works as well as his...
Pembroke Mariner, February 11, 2010
...my Kindle with 1,500 books, but if I can’t, I would bring the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (no kidding!) because that contains everything: psychology, poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, and more words and ideas than I can possibly learn in one...
Mail Online UK, February 10, 2010
...hostile debate between Anti-Stratfordians - those who deny that an ill- educated grain merchant and actor such as William Shakespeare could possibly have produced such a stunning oeuvre - and outraged traditionalists. Now, however, the tantalising...
Variety, February 10, 2010
... Arab screen icon Omar Sharif is set to tackle William Shakespeare's 'King Lear,' in a feature adaptation that migrates the bard's classic tragedy to modern-day Egypt. Project will be the first feature developed and produced by Frederic Sichler...
Wicked Local Milford, February 10, 2010
...analyzing two sonnets: "How Do I Love Thee," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Sonnet 130," by William Shakespeare. Here is something for the children to do on a cold winter day or during February vacation: Enter the "TIME For Kids" Poetry Contest! The...
Hindustan Times, February 10, 2010
...Mr Roy was an additional superintendent of police who spoke English with style and was an admirer of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and Guy de Maupassant. He often advised his son to have a dictionary as his best friend. The father’s...
Axis of Logic, February 10, 2010
...U.S. Military Workers & Labor The World World View The 2008 US ElectionsVenerable Verse ( 0) Print This William Shakespeare They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as...
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 2010
...Is it better to read 'Love Story' by the late Erich Segal, who died last month, or 'Hamlet' by the really late playwright William Shakespeare? The answer seems obvious to most educated people. 'Hamlet' is the world's greatest tragedy; 'Love Story' is...
Searchenginewatch, February 7, 2010
...compress four years of experience into a 4-hour workshop. If you have ever seen 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),' which runs 88 minutes, then you know what's it's like to watch Hamlet rush by at the world-record speed of 43 seconds....
PopEater, February 6, 2010
...on-camera kiss preceded her first one in real-life. Then she played star-cross'd lovers with Leonardo DiCaprio in 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.' Later, she had a real-life romance with 'Stage Beauty' and 'Princess Mononoke' co-star Billy Crudup....
Philly.com, February 1, 2010
...Is it better to read Love Story by the late Erich Segal, who died earlier this month, or Hamlet by the really late playwright William Shakespeare? The answer seems obvious to most educated people. Hamlet is the world's greatest tragedy; Love Story is...
Korea Times, January 31, 2010
...in Korea and Beyond,” a book that introduces Korean interpretations of Shakespeare dramas. By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter William Shakespeare's works are timeless and universal masterpieces that are endlessly being recreated around the world. Korean...
Helium, January 27, 2010
...One of the most renowned Elizabethan sonneteers is William Shakespeare. His sonnets cover many themes, but one of the most common is love. 'Sonnet ll6' is one such sonnet, in which Shakespeare depicts love's constancy and eternal nature...
Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2010
...by artist Jim Rugg. The list of authors stretches across millennia and writing styles; a sampling includes Homer, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Mitchell, Mickey Spillane, J.R.R. Tolkein, Thomas Pynchon, Judy Blume and Don...
Swans Commentary, January 27, 2010
...that languages are anthropocentric. She is working in Parma on a theatre work on Hamlet's foolishness of William Shakespeare, cooperating with the Director Tapella in the creations of the dramaturgical text with the use of a borderline language as mirror...
Varsity, January 22, 2010
...made obvious by her adoption of certain uncomfortable Americanisms. As when she compares Will with Barack. That’s William Shakespeare and Barack Obama. It’s not as bad as it sounds. But this inter-continental shape shifting is symptomatic of the...
George Town Record, January 18, 2010
...students. Here are excerpts from what Dispenza, alias Ariel, President of FETA, Female Employment Theatrical Agency, wrote to William Shakespeare. Dear Baldie, &I know you are manager of the Globe Theatre and as manager you get to cast the plays which...
Mid Day, January 18, 2010
...was the top and Antonio his loving bottom. Case dismissed! Treason, treason! Do I hear? Did someone say William Shakespeare was gay too? Well, I wouldn't be surprised! Half of his main male characters were huge sore drama queens anyway and who can ever...
Suite101.com, January 9, 2010
...were asked to name the most famous author of English literature, most of them would likely think of William Shakespeare, and with good reason. Shakespeares works, especially his plays, have become some of the best-known and easily recognized of all...
Suite101.com, January 9, 2010
...One of the most famous poets in the world is William Shakespeare, renowned sixteenth-century writer of plays, sonnets, and poems which are still enjoyed by people around the world. In his home country of England and elsewhere in the English-speaking world...
Yahoo! News Australia, January 7, 2010
...s ancestors, and the locations that inspired his novels.Visit: www.nps.gov/upde/historyculture/zanegrey.htm.6. Shakespeare:Ashland, Oregon. William Shakespeare's work will come alive for the family with a visit to this charming Oregon town where festival...
stuff.co.nz, January 6, 2010
...birthplace, Zanesville, Ohio, a town founded by his mother's ancestors, and the locations that inspired his novels. William Shakespeare's work will come alive for the family with a visit to this charming Oregon town where festival activities devoted to...
AllAfrica.com, January 5, 2010
...Kampala Death is inevitable. As William Shakespeare put it, he that dies this year is quit for the next. But the death of Austin Ejiet, author and newspaper columnist could go down as the greatest tragedy...
Helium, January 2, 2010
...William Shakespeare composed one of the largest sonnet sequences of his period - 154 poems - and he famously mocked love poetry and sonnets in his plays! Shakespeare made the beloved...
Arlington Advocate, January 2, 2010
...Books. From popular fiction novels by Nora Roberts and James Patterson, to classic works from Mark Twain and William Shakespeare, our digital library spans nearly every genre. You can download bestselling fiction novels, popular biographies,...
Korea Times, December 31, 2009
...of “Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and Beyond,” a book that introduces Korean interpretations of Shakespeare dramas. Staff Reporter William Shakespeare's works are timeless and universal masterpieces that are endlessly being recreated around the...
New York Daily News, December 29, 2009
...on the actual Twitter, each Tweet contains a maximum of 140 characters. The result of this microblogging-meets-masterpiece experiment? William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' is summed up as: '@Peopleof Denmark: Don't worry. Fortinbras will take care of thee....
PRLog, December 26, 2009
...writing, as his novels explored the human condition and the human psychology of the times of his novels. William Shakespeare – Probably one of the most familiar names in great literature, William Shakespeare’s nickname is The Bard (or The Bard of...
Guardian.co.uk, December 23, 2009
...in her vampire series was not released until 2005. Longevity does not always guarantee a high placing, however. William Shakespeare just creeps into the top 50 at 45, only one ahead of Carol Vorderman. Author Books Sold (Value) 1 JK...
Buffalo News, December 21, 2009
...an unlikely array of voices to Browns ruminations, from Zane Grey and Karl Marx to Thomas Hobbes and William Shakespeare. The author acknowledges a debt to the late architecture critic Reyner Banham, and repeatedly refers to A Concrete Atlantis, his...
Yahoo! Canada, December 21, 2009
...the series Shakespeare Without the Potholes, Hamlet Without the Potholes provides one of the thirty-seven updated versions of William Shakespeare's generally recognized plays. This book, like the rest of the series, modernizes some of the outdated...
Guardian.co.uk, December 17, 2009
...Blyton is in the top 10 most purchased authors of the decade (and the only dead one, besides William Shakespeare). At first glance, it's surprising. But Blyton has more in common with most of the writers on the list besides the fact that she has never...
Trend Hunter, December 15, 2009
...Bookity transformed an old book of William Shakespeare’s plays into a beautiful string of Christmas ornaments. The recycled book ornaments garland consists of 8 curvaceous clumps of cut-up, gilded pages printed with his famous plays The...
Lincolnshire Echo, December 13, 2009
...Christmas. Classic personalised novels: Dracula – Bram Stoker A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Romeo & Juliet – William Shakespeare The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz – Baum L Frank (Lyman Frank) The Hound Of The Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan...
Wicked Local Rockport, December 11, 2009
...At times, Quitnot’s only confidant is her dear friend Willie, as she calls him, otherwise known as William Shakespeare. Caulfield begins each chapter with a well-fitting quote from a Shakespeare play, namely, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear. “The themes...
Suite101.com, December 11, 2009
...to subtle judgments, implications, or untruths. “To exist or not to exist? I ask this question.”–translated Hamlet, William Shakespeare Language Influences Perception Compare “E-Prime is best,” with the E-Prime translation, “I prefer...
STV.tv, December 11, 2009
...Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen to give Scotland a distinctive liturgy and printed in 1509-10. A copy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, published during Shakespeare's lifetime and presented to the university by poet William Drummond in...
Leitrim Observer, December 10, 2009
...Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen to give Scotland a distinctive liturgy and printed in 1509-10. A copy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, published during Shakespeare's lifetime and presented to the university by poet William Drummond in...
Matangi Tonga, December 6, 2009
...the writer and reader can play with meanings of words and phrases artistically. Masters of the classics like William Shakespeare, for example, made his tragedies on stage marvelously enjoyable even several centuries later. His poetry uses metaphors...
Caspio Net, December 5, 2009
...to his brilliant translation skill, the characters of Guy de Maupassant, Chingiz Aitmatova, Lev Tolstoy, Ivan Bunin and William Shakespeare started to speak Kazakh. Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan Senate Speaker'The great Kazakh steppe brought up a lot...
Silver Bullet Comics, December 5, 2009
...Col to publish their original comic book series, Kill Shakespeare. The twelve-issue series is a dark take on William Shakespeare and his work, pitting his greatest heroes against his most menacing villains in an epic adventure. Called 'easily one of the...
Times Online, December 1, 2009
...Hughes to be included. If granted, a plaque recognising him would be laid in the South Precept, joining William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake and T. S. Eliot, among others. A spokeswoman for the Very Rev Dr John Hall, the Dean of...
Times Online, December 1, 2009
...Hughes to be included. If granted, a plaque recognising him would be laid in the South Precept, joining William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake and T. S. Eliot, among others. A spokeswoman for the Very Rev Dr John Hall, the Dean of...
Telegraph, December 1, 2009
...choice, always and everywhere. Tags: buzz, George Elliot, JRR Tolkien, keebra.com, Lord Macaulay, Robert Caro, Robertson Davies, William Shakespeare...
Helium, November 26, 2009
...Shakespeare's Sonnet 138, When my love swears that she is made of truth, is a dark, pun-filled discussion of a sexual relationship between a no longer youthful speaker and his faithless mistress. The general situation is stated by Alex Storey When, my...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, November 20, 2009
...And Shakespeare Buy the Book: My Name Is Will follows two seemly separate lives, Willie Shakespeare Greenberg and William Shakespeare, through women, drugs, and politics. My Name is Will is Jess Winfield’s debut novel. In the 1980s a struggling thesis...
Suite101.com, November 20, 2009
..." offers many other examples, including: Elizabethan and Neo-Classical Literature Often, writers from the Elizabethan era, such as William Shakespeare, and the Neo-Classical era that followed, with Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, used the oxymoron for...
Cape Gazette, November 19, 2009
...has appeared in two off-Broadway productions, and at more than 20 Delaware libraries as Shaw, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare. He performed as Shakespeare at the Delaware Chatauqua in Lewes last June. In period costume, Plummer brings Shaw’s...
Helium, November 7, 2009
...Explication of William Shakespeare's 'My Mistress' Eyes are nothing like the Sun' Even though this poem by Shakespeare was first published in 1609, it is still very relatable today not unlike most...
Helium, October 31, 2009
...overt poetry was highly fashionable. They were read for their artful construction and intrigue they contained, and in William Shakespeare's hand they advanced to new levels of expression. However his sonnets remain, to this day, shrouded in ambiguity....
IXPLORA, October 28, 2009
...impressed by Gustave Doré’s depictions of Cervantes’s delusion-plagued hero. He also owned the collected works of William Shakespeare, published in German translation in 1925 by Georg Müller as part of a series intended to make great literature...
News24.com, October 23, 2009
...Chicago - Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students who have written a book of Twitter entries that summarise and satirise works of literature.Twitterature: The...
Reuters UK, October 23, 2009
...CHICAGO/LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students who have written a book of Twitter entries that summarize and satirize works of literature. 'Twitterature: The...
Suite101.com, October 16, 2009
...chance to learn more about the each performer, their selected poet, and their chosen piece be it classic William Shakespeare (The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet) or the haunting lyrics of Eric Bogle (And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda), and Hank...
Chicago Reader, October 15, 2009
...puts me off time travel is medicine. Particularly dentistry. Sixteenth-century dentistry, I don't care if you're William Shakespeare, that would be hell."...
FilmForce, October 12, 2009
...helmer spoke about his future plans to take on two iconic authors: Isaac Asimov and the Bard himself, William Shakespeare. It was announced in January that Emmerich, whose forays into science-fiction include Stargate and Independence Day, was developing...
UCLA News, October 12, 2009
...William Shakespeare's characters could be described as "adulterous," "depraved," "scandalous" and "miraculous," but the Bard himself did not use those words until they appeared in a 1603...
Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2009
...s discovery of the telescope. -- Carolyn Kellogg Photo: This 1623 copy of the first folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays went up for auction in 2006; it is not included in the donation to the Clark Library. Credit: Matt Dunham / Associated Press...
The Australian, October 12, 2009
...Article from: The Australian THE 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect plagiarism. Brian Vickers, an authority on...
Scoop, October 12, 2009
...of Spring Awakening and The Crucible, thirteen young actors of Long Cloud Youth Theatre present Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare as part of the Compleate Workes of Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare?s most blood thirsty spectacle will be performed...
Telegraph, October 7, 2009
...in the run-up to Christmas. Published: 12:01AM BST 08 Oct 2009 Joanna Lumley will be heard reading William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, which will be backed by Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 Photo: PA The poetry is backed by music and voiced by acclaimed...
AllAfrica.com, September 28, 2009
...not influenced by money but for the development of the language,' he said. Madadzhe described Madima as a William Shakespeare whose writing remains consumable for generation after generation. Be the first to Write a Comment! More News on allAfrica.com...
Sowetan, September 28, 2009
...not influenced by money but for the development of the language,? he said. Madadzhe described Madima as a William Shakespeare whose writing remains consumable for generation after generation. ?Though he has passed on, his writing will remain forever....
Suite101.com, September 17, 2009
...and sword plays' and dramas of passion. The finest of them is El divino Orfeo (Divine Orpheus.) Unlike William Shakespeare, his stage productions were active and indispensable to the action. Therefore, it called for clear sets. His characters were...
MyIris, September 17, 2009
...in India, CoralHub.com offers the largest selection of classic titles and complete works of renowned authors like William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, James Joyce and others. It also offers wide range of rare-to-find...
Individual.com, September 14, 2009
...singled out Literature in English as one of those 'redundant' subjects, wondering what one could do after studying William Shakespeare. "Shakespeare said this in this year, so what?" the sarcastic President asked...
Deseret Morning News, September 13, 2009
...offering a lot.' The offerings include 'Tuesdays With Morrie,' 'The Woman in Black' and 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).' 'Tuesdays With Morrie' is based on Mitch Albom's best-selling book of the same name and the best-selling...
American Chronicle, September 12, 2009
...a speech or essay with a pithy saying. This treasured resource has quotations from such intellectual giants like William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. It is sacrilegious to include a quotation from Paris Hilton is this sacred tome! Surely this is a sign...
Russia Today, September 11, 2009
...Wednesday. Among the magnificent seven will be James Joyce, Johann Goethe, Miguel de Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare and a French author whose name will be announced later. The first festival is planned for 2010 in Yasnaya...
Blogcritics.org, September 11, 2009
...I slurred around the tongue firmly adhered to the lining of my cheek, the work in question is William Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet. I have recently read several online discussions regarding a trend toward a purportedly excessive use of realism in...
Times Higher Education Supplement, September 10, 2009
...Wisconsin. He used to cite the similarities between Richard Nixon and Richard III as a way of making William Shakespeare's history plays more relevant - until he realised the reference was having the opposite effect on students who were nine years old...
Metro Spirit, September 9, 2009
...materials that have made his previous adventures special, Heylin returns with a breathtaking account of the Sonnets by William Shakespeare. The author of ?The Da Capo Book of Rock and Roll,? ?All Yesterdays? Parties? and ?Behind the...
Internet News, September 8, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Cyber India Online, September 8, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Ireland Business World, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
CNBC, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Business Spectator, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Economictimes, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Yahoo! UK and Ireland, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
Economictimes, September 7, 2009
...books online. The EU has launched its own online register, Europeana, which includes books and images ranging from William Shakespeare to pictures of French actress Brigitte Bardot. But most European countries have been slow in scanning and publishing...
The Hindu, September 5, 2009
...you buy his idea of the original. The second, alternating story of the book is of the young William Shakespeare in Stratford on Avon in 1582, flitting from maiden to maiden, and not doing much writing. His own war on drugs is the Queens war on...
Web Commentary, September 1, 2009
...gradually his characters get dismantled every moment and then later unite. Reading Shakespeare Kathmandu, Nepal, September 19 ? William Shakespeare's work revolves around love, life, failure, conflict and companionship. No wonder he is hailed as one of...
Forbes.com, August 28, 2009
..., 7:00 PM ETBERKELEY, Calif. - Google Books has the contents of 10 million volumes--and some amazing howlers. Speaking at a seminar Friday on Google's book search service, Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of...
Enid News and Eagle, August 26, 2009
...series of lessons. Future lectures will take place in Montgomery Hall at 7 p.m. and will include William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar,' Oct. 12; Homer's 'The Iliad,' Nov. 9; Machiavelli's 'The Prince,' Jan. 11; and Elie Wiesel's 'Night,' Feb. 8. Fears'...
GlobeNewswire via Yahoo!, August 25, 2009
...NOWRA, Australia, Aug. 25, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It's undeniable that Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English language. From his plays to his sonnets, his works have always been influential. More and more people are finding insights that...
Suite101.com, August 18, 2009
...Shakespearean Theatre » Some Argue the Bard of Avon Was Not Who He Appeared © Michael Waterson While William Shakespeare is called the greatest writer in the English language, some speculate that the real author remains unacknowledged. The notion of a...
Telegraph, August 17, 2009
...produce, reflect a bygone age. To the north-east is the whole rich heritage of literature and architecture surrounding William Shakespeare...
Oprah.com, August 10, 2009
...Books to Read When You Need a Mood Boost By Marjorie Garber The Winter's Tale By William Shakespeare In this romance written late in Shakespeare's career, a king who believes his wife died as a result of his misguided jealousy is shown a 'statue' of her...
The Age, August 9, 2009
...THE mystery of William Shakespeare's true identity could be solved by the contents of a sarcophagus. The 17th-century monument was built by the writer Fulke Greville, a contemporary of the Bard who some...
Asiaone, August 7, 2009
...in the Kindle 2, many audiobooks are free especially those whose copyrights have expired like the works of William Shakespeare. And if you have to buy an e-book, they typically cost about 40 per cent less than new physical titles. Zittrain's book for the...
Reuters, August 4, 2009
...carry a suggested digital list price of $2.99. The broad selection of titles includes favorites such as William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. -- Fun, plain-spoken analysis from experts...
Columbus Business First, August 4, 2009
...carry a suggested digital list price of $2.99. The broad selection of titles includes favorites such as William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. -- Fun, plain-spoken analysis from experts - Shmoop writers are...
Evansville Courier, August 1, 2009
...will include Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown?s ?Parade,? Moss Hart?s ?Light Up the Sky? and William Shakespeare?s ?The Winter?s Tale.? ?Courtship? and ?Valentine?s Day,? which focus on the unfolding love between a man and...
NOLA Live, July 29, 2009
...we loved that. And we've read 'The Soul of An Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare,' by Jonathan Bate. And Harold Bloom's 'Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human.' It's so great. Even if you don't read Shakespeare, you should read that. He...
Salt Lake Tribune, July 26, 2009
...Bingham Creek Library invites children 5-12 to learn more about one of the world's most important authors, William Shakespeare, and get a chance to participate in one of The Bard's plays. When Aug. 1, 3 p.m. Where Bingham Creek Library, 4834 W. 9000...
Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2009
...Of the many ironies surrounding William Shakespeare's plays, none is more compelling than the fact that the man esteemed today as England's national poet never in his lifetime authorized publication of any of his...
Deccan Herald, July 19, 2009
...tomes ? Charles Dickens? A Tale of Two Cities, Ruyard Kipling?s Kim Ana Sewell?s Black Beauty, William Shakespeare?s Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet & The Tempest, H G Wells? The Time Machine, Sinbad The Sailor, Ali Baba & Forty Thieves, The...
Newsday, July 16, 2009
...was used to purchase six Playaway books on iPod for the building?s library. These titles, mostly by William Shakespeare, are an excellent addition to the fifteen Playaway books that were already owned and used by English teachers as well as Special...
Motorbar, July 11, 2009
...and destructive love triangle that consumed one of the finest poets and playwrights ever to have lived ? William Shakespeare...? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS THE MOST ICONIC name in the history of literature. During his troubled middle years, he was...
Davis County Clipper, July 3, 2009
...comprehend the messages within the writings. Talbot supports the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, which looks at the identity of William Shakespeare as an issue for research and publication, claiming not enough is known of the man William Shakespeare to...
Missoulian, June 28, 2009
...shelves enough to hide between, and books aplenty to get lost in. You can check out Harry Potter, William Shakespeare, or Drummond: Ranch Life In the West. To be surrounded by books...
Davis County Clipper, June 23, 2009
...comprehend the messages within the writings. Talbot supports the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, which looks at the identity of William Shakespeare as an issue for research and publication, claiming not enough is known of the man William Shakespeare to...
Davis County Clipper, June 23, 2009
...comprehend the messages within the writings. Talbot supports the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, which looks at the identity of William Shakespeare as an issue for research and publication, claiming not enough is known of the man William Shakespeare to...
Davis County Clipper, June 23, 2009
...comprehend the messages within the writings. Talbot supports the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, which looks at the identity of William Shakespeare as an issue for research and publication, claiming not enough is known of the man William Shakespeare to...
Media For Freedom, June 22, 2009
... Reading Shakespeare Kathmandu, Nepal, â' William Shakespeare's work revolves around love, life, failure, conflict and companionship. No wonder he is hailed as one of the greatest poet and writer of all times. The play 'Romeo...
Earthtimes.org, June 12, 2009
...audio CramCasts covering the following works of literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Macbeth by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper...
New Canaan Advertiser, June 11, 2009
...Professor Mark Schenker will lead a discussion on William Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, June 14, in the New Canaan Library?s Adrian Lamb Room. Schenker, of Yale University, will discuss...
Broadway World, May 25, 2009
...include beloved OSF veterans and newcomers to OSF.' The 2010 season will be anchored by four plays by William Shakespeare, and in a nod to OSF's first season, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, directed by RAUCH, and TWELFTH NIGHT directed by TRESNJAK, will open in...
The New Republic Online, May 21, 2009
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Hollywood Life, May 20, 2009
...William Shakespeare. Aleksandr Pushkin. Paulina Porizkova. Lauren Conrad. Presidents' dogs. These are the names we count on when we search for novels, those weighty pamphlets that smell like grandmother's final...
Voices News, May 16, 2009
...WOODBURY - 'Much Ado About Nothing,' adapted from William Shakespeare's delightful romantic comedy by the same name, will be shown at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in the Woodbury Public Library's ongoing series 'Don't...
Peterborough Examiner, May 14, 2009
...new to DVD, both inspired by British literary giants. One is devoted to Charles Dickens; the other to William Shakespeare. Both are major productions with fascinating casts that range from a young Sean Connery to a maturing Gillian Anderson. New this...
Hampton Union, May 13, 2009
...that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.' Thus wrote William Shakespeare in 'Hamlet,' which you can catch May 15 through May 24 presented by The New Hampshire Theatre Project Senior Repertory Company at 959 Islington St....
Washington Post, April 28, 2009
...SOUL OF THE AGE A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare By Jonathan Bate Random House. 471 pp. $35 'Soul of the age' is Ben Jonson's coinage, but 'A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare'? That's...
AllAfrica.com, April 27, 2009
...as a symbolic date of world literature, coinciding with births or deaths of world renowned writers such as William Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Maurice Druon, K. Laxness and Josep Pla. Copyright © 2009 The New Times...
Rwanda New Times, April 24, 2009
...as a symbolic date of world literature, coinciding with births or deaths of world renowned writers such as William Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Maurice Druon, K. Laxness and Josep Pla...
AOL UK, April 24, 2009
...Katherine Kelly thinks William Shakespeare would write 'Coronation Street' if he were still alive. The actress - who plays barmaid Becky Granger in the soap - said she loves the 16th century bard's...
Knox Village Soup, April 23, 2009
...DAMARISCOTTA (April 18): Skidompha Public Library and Heartwood Regional Theater Company have chosen William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' as the next offering in their collaborative Literature Comes Alive program. The program combines the reading and...
Tempo, April 22, 2009
...is significant for the world of literature because it was on this day in 1616 that Cervantes Saavedra, William Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de le Vega died. It is also the day that the world of literature comemorates either the birth or death of such...
The Bookseller, April 17, 2009
... Victoria Gallagher Little, Brown has paid a five-figure sum for a fictional account of William Shakespeare as he writes a play that never existed in reality - that of the founder of the Tudor line, Henry VII. Editorial director Richard Beswick secured...
The News International, April 15, 2009
...Maurice Druon, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Haldor Kiljan Laxness, Manuel Mej!a Vallejo, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and William Shakespeare. The day is remembered to pay tribute to books, the authors who wrote them and the copyright laws that protect...
Wichita Eagle, April 13, 2009
...She has selected poems from such classic authors as T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, and even her own mother, writing as Jacqueline Bouvier. Poems for children and adults are included, making this a...
Raleigh News & Observer, April 13, 2009
...She has selected poems from such classic authors as T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, and even her own mother, writing as Jacqueline Bouvier. Poems for children and adults are included, making this a...
Book Reporter, April 10, 2009
...earlier Lady Julia Grey novels. Each chapter is headed with intricate floral design followed by a quote from William Shakespeare?s works that pertains to the action appropriate to that particular section. To the reader, anticipating the coming events...
Examiner.com, April 9, 2009
...Among those with a reputation for being cat haters Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Dwight D. Eisenhower and William Shakespeare. One section of the book is devoted to weird laws about cats. They include these gems: ? In Sterling, Colorado, it...
MyContentBuilder, April 8, 2009
...idea of washing your mouth out with soap the Goblin's too would learn their lesson. Imagine if William Shakespeare's 'Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?' too was overruled by inspiration form soap. Picture how the summer imagery would be soapier...
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 2009
...it's always being produced by somebody, somewhere. The same Delaware Theatre Company performed The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) last season, Theatre Horizon presented it a few months ago, and Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is...
Voices News, April 1, 2009
...SOUTHBURY - The Southbury Public Library will celebrate William Shakespeare's 445th birthday with W.H. Angelic Master Poets' Dr. Timothy Ross Whelan at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4, in the Kingsley Meeting Room. Dr. Whelan will...
The Easterner, March 29, 2009
...over 100,000 works of fiction, with over 28,000 being complete books. Readers can find anything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen to George Orwell. An easy way of finding what you're looking for is to use the search feature that finds books by...
Cafebabel, March 27, 2009
...- If you think about it, some of the titles in the catalogue seem easy enough to guess; William Shakespeare?s King Lear (1603- 1606) and Leo Tolstoy?s War and Peace (1865-1869) would lend themselves pretty well to images. However, you start to get...
Blue Print, March 23, 2009
...scholar from Oxford?s English Faculty has discovered that a painting lauded as the only known portrait of William Shakespeare painted from life is almost certainly of somebody else. Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones, who has written a biography of...
American Thinker, March 22, 2009
...the fact that he is a merciless self-caricature of Joyce himself.) The 'man of genius' referenced is thus William Shakespeare. But it requires no great intuitive leap to infer that Daedalus considers himself included in the ambit of genius, and also...
CathNews, March 20, 2009
...This assessment would sound hollow and artificial in the kind of biography that we have become so accustomed to reading, where the same knowns and unknowns are repeatedly examined only to frustrate the reader with the paucity of the evidence. Bate ably...
Toys And Gadgets, March 19, 2009
...Sony Readers for free. Yeah, so you can get all your favorite Mark Twain, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare among others. While the number sounds impressive, it begs the question of ?how many people are actually going to be excited about...
Reading with Tequila, January 7, 2010
...to be Lorelai Classics Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo Othello by William Shakespeare Modern Classics The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien Non-fiction The Second Sex by Simone du Beauvoir Other The House of...
VOA News: Top Stories, January 5, 2010
...On EXPLORATIONS: William Shakespeare's writings have influenced culture all over the world for more than four centuries. First of two parts...
All Booked Up, January 5, 2010
...to finish the following books: Old Man's War by John Scalzi A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare This week I'm planning to read: Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson. I know I started reading it before, but the book got accidentally packed...
All Booked Up, January 5, 2010
...A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Editor: Peter Holland This edition: 2008 978-0199535866 Amazon.com blurb: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare...
Random Good Stuff, January 4, 2010
...This is the real deal – Best part … no need to a bookmark anymore. Reading in bed is the new going out. Sort of. And with so many great authors out there you’re spoilt for choice: from Jeffrey Archer and Jordan to Chekhov and Dostoevsky. Yes, we...
Homeschool Distractions, January 2, 2010
...and then read two in each. Some category ideas are by author (ie. C.S. Lewis, Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Ann Rule), by type (mystery, true crime, historical fiction, autobiography), by subject matter (cats, antiques, cooking), and any other...
By Singing Light, January 2, 2010
...somewhere in the middle. Nonetheless, I can’t quite get it out of my head. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: I was in a Shakespeare course in London, so I had the chance to revisit this play. The Nigel Hawthorne/Ben Kingsley/Toby Stephens film...
FASHIONABLE INDIA, January 1, 2010
...free. This is really free library books. From the great collection of Charles Dickens to the flavors of William Shakespeare all are here. So what are you waiting for just visit it and Download the favorite of yours Free of cost....
eclectic / eccentric, December 31, 2009
...the cultural messages and insights inherent in each are different. J.K. Rowling rocks my world, but William Shakespeare changes it. I'm very proud that I have a 50-50 split this year. In the past two years it's been more like 80% guilty...
The Awesomeness of Amy, December 30, 2009
...JK Rowling 10. Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin 11. Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier 12. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 13. Magic’s Child by Justine Larbalestier 14. If I Stay by Gayle Forman 15. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William...
on the black hand side, December 30, 2009
...about. When the unit is on and hasn't been used a screensaver comes on. Usually it's William Shakespeare or some other caucasian person. No James Baldwin or Alice Walker or Maya Angelou or any other person of color. Imagine my surprise to see this...
Becky's Book Reviews, December 29, 2009
...is the fact that William is so strongly attached to all-things Shakespeare. He carries his Complete Works of William Shakespeare around like it is the biggest treasure ever. He reads it to himself. He reads it aloud to his siblings. He quotes from it. He...
Passages to the Past, December 29, 2009
...Good luck to all! SYNOPSIS: As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to William Shakespeare just days before he was forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway. Here, Anne Whateley takes up her pen to tell the intimate...
Annette J Dunlea Irish Author's Literary Blog, December 23, 2009
...Star John L Sarna A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti December John Clare   Joseph U.A. Fanthorpe Winter William Shakespeare For The Children Or The Grown-ups? Anon P.S. To Santa Ivor Davis Holy Night Elizabeth Barrett Browning   Christmass John Clare...
Unreasonable Faith, December 21, 2009
...Charles Dickens Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing. William Shakespeare People who like bondage. Mark Twain Liars. Thomas Aquinas Premature ejaculators. H.P. Lovecraft People who can quote the...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home, December 21, 2009
...by Terry Pratchett Naked in Death by J.D. Robb Humans by Robert J. Sawyer Collected Comedies by William Shakespeare Collected Tragedies by William Shakespeare Sonnets by William Shakespeare The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery A...
Lion & Lamb Love // A Twilight Fansite, December 20, 2009
...Pratchett 5. Jamie Oliver 6. Dan Brown 7. Enid Blyton 8. Bernard Cornwell 9. Alexander McCall Smith 10. William Shakespeare Source. Congrats Stephenie!...
bookofjoe, December 20, 2009
...of the Americas Before Columbus" – by Charles C. Mann 3. "1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare" – by James Shapiro   4. "1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft,...
Breathing Twilight - Look After My Heart I've Left, December 18, 2009
...Pratchett 5. Jamie Oliver 6. Dan Brown 7. Enid Blyton 8. Bernard Cornwell 9. Alexander McCall Smith 10. William Shakespeare Källa: http://thetwilights.blogg.se/...
k'telontour of the World, December 16, 2009
...Pratchett 5. Jamie Oliver 6. Dan Brown 7. Enid Blyton 8. Bernard Cornwell 9. Alexander McCall Smith 10. William Shakespeare Have to say it's good to see Enid Blyton (#7) mentioned- happy memories of childhood reading that appear to be standing the test...
TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends, December 15, 2009
... (TrendHunter.com) Bookity transformed an old book of William Shakespeare’s plays into a beautiful string of Christmas ornaments. The recycled book ornaments garland consists of 8 curvaceous clumps of cut-up, gilded pages…...
eclectic / eccentric, December 12, 2009
...King Emma by Jane Austen Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Hamlet by William Shakespeare Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling In Cold Blood by Truman Capote...
RollingLogBlog, December 11, 2009
...savant who no one wanted to know.  I was also was troubled about the esae in assuming Shagspur and Shake-speare meant William Shakespeare and … was Hathaway.  But what-the- hell,  Harvard professors know what they are talking about. Then I...
Deadline Press & Picture Agency, December 9, 2009
...and can still be read despite its age. Other exhibits going on show include a rare copy of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet published during Shakespeare’s lifetime. And two more firsts for Scotland are featured, including the first book...
Uberi.com, November 20, 2009
...Kindle Book Download: Complete Works of William Shakespeare for $0.99 November 20th, 2009 | Categories: Books and Magazines Tags: Kindle , Literature Trackback Download Kindle Book: Complete Works of...
Mad Bibliophile, November 1, 2009
...off coupons. Who could resist? Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte The Sonnets and The Lover’s Complaint – William Shakespeare Mansfield Park – Jane Austen The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James Discount coupons are always a great time to pick...
TechBlogger, October 23, 2009
...CHICAGO/LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students who have written a book of Twitter entries that summarize and satirize works of literature. Original...
TIME.com: Today's Most Emailed Articles, October 20, 2009
...that he had found dozens of love letters, unpublished manuscripts and annotated volumes written by none other than William Shakespeare. (He claimed he discovered them in an old chest given to him by an "anonymous friend.") But Ireland's ego finally...
Popped Culture, October 18, 2009
...send me an invite already? (Link via @chrisboutet ) Previously on Popped Culture... Extra Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction Wonderland William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction Labels: Google , movies , Pulp Fiction...
50 Book Challenge, October 16, 2009
...Book #77 -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 66 pages.Dryden's All For Love is next on my list to read for the Harvard Classics. When I read the introduction and it talked about...
Frontier Blog - No one ahead, no one behind, October 16, 2009
...Lord of the Rings [trilogy] J. R. R. Tolkien Library holdings: 40,907 Bibliographic records: 685 #9 Hamlet William Shakespeare Library holdings: 39,521 Bibliographic records: 2,008 #10 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Library holdings:...
Culture Monster, October 12, 2009
...  A trove of volumes related to William Shakespeare and dating as far back as the 15th century is headed for a new home at UCLA . The collection, which will be stored at the university's Clark Library...
Inform, October 12, 2009
...THE 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer...
Pappy's Balderdash, October 4, 2009
...my poems on poetry. Poetry. Euphony. Dark, light. Rhymed, not. Metered, free. Long, brief. Symphony I Salute You William Shakespeare If I could just remember who wrote what, and what they said, I would quote them in my poetry, the living and the dead. I...
The Literary Cat, October 4, 2009
...W. Somerset Maugham Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri; abandoned p. 48 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Melanctha by Gertrude Stein, abandoned p. ~50 ...
BrontëBlog, October 2, 2009
...Steinbeck Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Odyssey by Homer Hamlet by William Shakespeare Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Walden and...
50 Book Challenge, October 1, 2009
...claim asylum, Dude follows them and wages war, Dude gets his comeuppance. 108. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare             A really funny comedy/romance.  I could've cared less about Hero and Claudio, but Beatrice and Benedick...
Barnabas Ministries UK, October 1, 2009
...books. Having said that, we need to distinguish sharply between those two masterpieces: the plays and poems of William Shakespeare are arguably the work of the world’s greatest poetic genius; but the Bible is a whole library spanning fifteen hundred...
Culture Scout Blog, October 1, 2009
...with all the visual appeal of Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare , they are densely packed and relentlessly boring to the eye. How many people read like that any more? My grandmother, maybe. More and more...
Culture Scout Blog, October 1, 2009
...into a coffin. Formatted much like Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare they are densely packed and relentless. How many people read like that any more? My grandmother, maybe. More and more I'm using my...
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources, September 28, 2009
...his death in 1593 and lived out his life writing plays that we attribute to some bloke named William Shakespeare. It's an interesting theory, although I haven't gotten to the part where he fakes his death and therefore don't know how Bolt accounts for...
the notorious J*O*E*, September 28, 2009
...to art as pop music can get, right? her eloquent words can only be rivaled by the greats.... william shakespeare, gore vidal, , gertrude stein, franz kafka, william faulkner .... not everyone can be born with the talent for fine grammar and a mastery of...
Special 2 me, September 28, 2009
...The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S . by Lawrence...
Lally's Alley, September 27, 2009
...and IN THRALL by Jane Delynn JACK’S BOOK by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee KING LEAR by William Shakespeare LUNCH POEMS by Frank O’Hara, LET’S GO! By Otto Rene Costillio, LIGHT YEARS by Merrill Gilfillan and LIGHTS OUT by Geoffrey Young...
The Mind of Evil and Fluff, September 26, 2009
...agent pays him an extra 15% for the privilege of saying “I’m Neil Gaiman’s agent.” 8. William Shakespeare once came back from the dead to ask for Neil Gaiman’s autograph. 9. Neil Gaiman is the reason nobody teaches “I before E except after...
peebs, September 25, 2009
...Weight is Hazardous to Your Health - Paul Campos 11. Atonement - Ian McEwan 10. The Tempest - William Shakespeare 9. Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner 8. Watchmen - Alan Moore 7. Factotum - Charles Bukowski 6. Better than Life - Grant Naylor 5. Red...
50 Book Challenge, September 25, 2009
...under the mistaken belief that his son had raped his step-mother, Phaedra. 95. The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare          A truly funny Shakespearan comedy, since it doesn't rely on Elizabethan jokes.  The play is about two pairs of...
Heather's Books, September 16, 2009
...opinion who are the 10 most influential writers of all time. Great question! I'd have to say William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, JRR Tolkien, Stephen King, Poe, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Emily Bronte to name a few. 7....
LA Observed, September 15, 2009
...December 2009 release, "Twitterature" answers the burning question -- what if the likes of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, William Shakespeare and Jack Kerouac had had Twitter accounts? While Emmett and his co-author were busy compressing the great...
HTMLGIANT, September 14, 2009
...Amanda Lofland (top right): Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; Mary Johnston (top, 2nd from right) Twelfth Night , by William Shakespeare; etc.] This got me thinking about a few things: 1) Our assumptions about readers, audience, etc. [In workshop, Lee K....
AMERICAN DIGEST, September 10, 2009
...more wisdom and quotable lines than any other single book aside from the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Gerard Van der Leun has extracted scores of wonderful lines from the text, and they are a joy to sample. On jealousy, for example, Holmes...
The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog, September 8, 2009
...by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. #192. The World’s Greatest Books Volume 2. #197. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. #204. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. #209. The Game by Jack London. #233. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. #239. ...
blankanvas, September 5, 2009
...James Joyce and William Shakespeare are two of my favourite authors of all time, even though they can be quite a pain to score a distinction for in Literature. I thought these author pencils...
Becky's Book Reviews, August 31, 2009
...House. 278 pages. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. 1905. Signet Classics. 248 pages. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. 1608(ish). The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Number of Verse Novels: 1 Tricks by Ellen Hopkins. 2009....
Alexandria, August 30, 2009
...You will only make matters worse). — John Cage. In brief, sir, study what you most affect. — William Shakespeare. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he...
Savvy Verse & Wit, August 22, 2009
...review of her book, check it out here . Today's poem is a return to the classics with William Shakespeare : SONNET #21 O is it not with me as with that Muse Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse, Who heaven itself for ornament doth use And every...
10 Hot, August 20, 2009
...R.L. Stevenson 11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain 12. The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare 13. The Call of the Wild – Jack London 14. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 15. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Posted in...
Becky's Book Reviews, August 19, 2009
...two smuggled to safely? Did they live out their lives in hiding? Is Richard III a monster like William Shakespeare portrayed him? Is Richard III evil incarnate? Or has history done him a great injustice? This one offers a little history and mystery which...
All Manner of Thing, August 18, 2009
...be fairly clear.  I also have not added commentary, because I simply haven’t time. Okay: 1. William Shakespeare 2. Dante Alighieri 3. Jane Austen 4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 5. Charles Dickens 6. Miguel Cervantes 7. Geoffrey Chaucer 8. Virgil 9. Thomas...
All This Is That, August 18, 2009
...a lot of history and nonfiction. NF - nonfiction; F - Fiction; M - mountaineering/expedition The Tempest - William Shakespeare (F - more or less, in verse and play form) The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier - Bruce Barcott (M)...
persistent cookie, August 13, 2009
...Main | The Good-Night » Thursday 13 Aug 2009 One book you love Thu, August 13, 2009 | filed in books In an attempt to employ the social media for personal good rather than perpetual annoyance, I asked people to name one book they love....
Thrifty Jinxy, August 11, 2009
...making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon . The future Bard's...
Haiku Amy, August 1, 2009
...95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute () 96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas () 97. Hamlet - William Shakespeare () 98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X) 99. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo () Ah, ha there were only 99 if you go to the...
The Book Nest, August 1, 2009
...Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer (library book) The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (library book) Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (got from bookmooch) Life As We Knew It (Moon,...
Shelf Love, July 29, 2009
...A few years after William Shakespeare’s death, his business partners, actors John Heminge and Henry Condell, approached the printer William Jaggard with a proposal that he publish a complete collection of Shakespeare’s plays...
Just a Catholic country boy, June 15, 2009
...H. Orberg Anthology of Latin Prose; Russell Latin Prose Composition; Bradley Dante’s Paradise; Anthony Esolen Eight Dramas; William Shakespeare Church Reading of Paul; Brevard Childs Compendium to the Catholic Catechism Jesus of Nazareth; Pope...
My Techbox, June 12, 2009
...guide applications on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. They include Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.  Five individual apps, the first in a series of more than forty, provide character, theme and plot summaries and analysis,...
Powell's Books: Review-A-Day, June 2, 2009
...Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate, a review from The Nation by James Longenbach...
Wikibooks - Recent changes [en], May 23, 2009
...on theatre and acting can be found here . Introduction Tragedy Comedy Romance Histories [ edit ] Significant Figures William Shakespeare Mark Twain Charles Dickens The Wikibook on Catullus' poems can be found here The Wikibook on Shakespeare's works can...
If You Write It, May 16, 2009
...rhetoric! He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that’s he: I shoot thee at the swain. William Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost–Sorry, what did he say again? Bill Bryson is one of my favorite authors, though I don’t always love what he...
Proof Positive, May 11, 2009
...one of my favorite movies was on the other day. So we'll have a little poetry today. William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And...
Wikiquote - Recent changes [en], May 6, 2009
...Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland All the Names by José Saramago All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare American Gods by Neil Gaiman The American Scene by Henry James Ancrene Wisse Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Animal...
Unwashed Depressive, May 1, 2009
...those. Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play. William Shakespeare...
This Much Is True, April 30, 2009
...I end, as usual, with my favorite poet: Sonnet 138 When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutored youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that...
Writing and Ruminating, April 30, 2009
...3. The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats 4. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) 6. To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick 7. Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord...
Living Without School, April 29, 2009
...We read about two people today. St Catherine of Siena, saint for today, Doctor of the Church. William Shakespeare, who would have had a birthday last Friday. As I was reading about St Catherine and her role in The Western Schism , Anthony regaled us with...
News from Monday Books, April 28, 2009
...UK publishing 'took a beating' last year, according to figures from the Publishers Association released yesterday. The second half of 2008 was a shocker, with 20 of the final 26 weeks of the year down on 2007. Not all that surprising, I suppose. Here's...
A library is a hospital for the mind..., April 25, 2009
...On this day... 445 years ago, William Shakespeare was born. Happy birthday to the bard. And so, in honor of his birthday, I thought I'd post the following meme, which I found over at the blog...
Davidjoseph's Weblog, April 23, 2009
...great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”–AP Thought for the Day, “Twelfth Night,” William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Born on this day, he is now 445 years old. Shirley Temple Black is 81, Lee Majors, 70, Bernadette...
Announcements, April 22, 2009
...Although we don't know his exact birthday, many scholars believe that April 23rd is William Shakespeare's birthday. In honor of the 445th anniversary of Bard's birth, April 23, 2009, why not talk like Shakespeare for a day? Need help with Elizabethean...
Stingray: a blog for salty Christians, April 21, 2009
...You are probably familiar with Ephesians 2:8-10, which says that we are God’s workmanship. However, did you know that the word translated in various versions of the Bible as workmanship, handiwork   or masterpiece is the Greek word poemia , from which...
For the Love of Writing, April 20, 2009
...blog, this week we're celebrating April literary babies such as Maya Angelou, Barbara Kingsolver, Charlotte Bronte, and William Shakespeare. Today I kick off the party with a tribute to one my home state author celebs, Harper Lee. Put on your pointy hat...
Doggerybaw, April 20, 2009
...And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. – William Shakespeare...
Babson Library News, April 20, 2009
...On April 23rd, we celebrate WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S birthday. It is unlikely that anyone reading this blog entry will not know who William Shakespeare is. As the “ Encyclopedia of World Biography ” (accessed through the Biography Resource...
Jesus Crisis's MySpace Blog, April 15, 2009
...Smoking Tensions in Prison Crisis Chronicles Online Library: Sonnet XII - When I do count the clock (by William Shakespeare) El Hombre (by William Carlos Williams) Tesseract (by J.E. Stanley) - video Bhagavad-Gita (a poetic translation by Sir Edwin...
Gypsy Scholar, April 11, 2009
...comes from a chapter on Elizabethan pronunciation in Richard Grant White's 1862 edition of The Works of William Shakespeare (Boston, Little Brown and Company), which would be rather authoritative since it was published merely five years after Hughes...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty, April 10, 2009
...3. "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course ." ~ William Shakespeare 4. The warming of the temperatures, seeing my cats and dog lazing in the sunspots around the house as well watching them take pleasure in playing...
itisi, April 10, 2009
...stuck to me because it's horrible. Really! I still remember one scene with a shudder. MacBeth by William Shakespeare ~ Not sure if it counts as a book, but I did read it in a book so I'm saying it does. Anyhoo, this was the book that...
Scribd Feed, April 9, 2009
...Poetry Introduction 1. 2. 3. The Peacock Sujata Bhatt Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds William Shakespeare Coming Philip Larkin (Haiku)1 2 10 19 37 56 62 85 99106 107 109 111 113...
The Willesden Herald, April 9, 2009
...April 09, 2009 Interviewing books #1: Complete works of Shakespeare Sean Brijbasi interviewing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, brought to you by Cafe' Hopeless Labels: literary , video...
Kid Mercury's Blog, April 7, 2009
...Bill Shakespeare you know, The Bard would have made a terrible web writer. He never gave a thought to keyword density and didnt even know what strong text was or how to use it in web writing. Go to Full Article...
Kid Mercury's Blog, April 7, 2009
...Bill Shakespeare you know, The Bard would have made a terrible web writer. He never gave a thought to keyword density and didnt even know what strong text was or how to use it in web writing. Go to Full Article...
Becky's Book Reviews, April 6, 2009
...As a few of you might remember, I read Eyes Like Stars in March. This wonderful-wonderful YA fantasy novel isn't due to be published until the summer--July, I believe. But I was fortunate to have Lisa Mantchev, the author of Eyes Like Stars , drop by for...
Time's Fool, April 5, 2009
...be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Labels: national poetry month , shakespeare sonnet 116...
Beyond the Rhetoric, April 3, 2009
...Yesterday, we started our discussion on why math shouldn’t be an elective and why even the quadratic equation can be useful years after graduation. Today, we continue the discussion by approaching high school English classes and why figuring out the...
A Work in Progress, April 3, 2009
...Mistress Shakespeare , Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will just days before he...
Just a Catholic country boy, April 1, 2009
...Gregorian Missal; Solesmes Collected Works; Robert Frost The Confessions; Saint Augustine Dante’s Paradise; Anthony Esolen Eight Dramas; William Shakespeare Atheist Delusions; David Bentley Hart Aquinas on Friendship; Daniel Schwartz Decrees of the...
Simply Left Behind, March 30, 2009
...s body of work. 2) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams 3) Hamlet - William Shakespeare (I'm claiming book by dint of the edition I read, which was annotated) 4) A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 5) Flatland: A Romance of Many...
In the Shadow of Mt. TBR, March 29, 2009
...five authors” list? Do I hafta limit it to five?!?! Waaaah! ‘kay, I’ll try:   Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, C. S. Lewis and…. Dr. Seuss. 4. What book have you faked reading? LOL… I’m guessing this means What book did I...
One Ghana, One Voice, March 28, 2009
...favorite poets are Willie James King, Wole Soyinka, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove Alice Walker, William Shakespeare and Yusef Komunyakaa in order of preference. Willie James King, an African-American from Alabama, Wole Soyinka...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, March 27, 2009
...fade away. At Contrariwise, users send in photos of their literary tattoos, and readers vote on their favorites. William Shakespeare and Kurt Vonnegut are the two most popular authors so far, and some of the ink work is truly beautiful. Here's one tattoo...
Sarah Browning, March 25, 2009
...of Hip Hop, I explore the ways that MCs have transformed the poetic tradition, extending the legacy of William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks. I argue that over the last four decades rap has helped bring about a...
Blogcritics, March 25, 2009
...feedback of your own! Buy from Battlestar Galactica - Season Three DVD, Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Book, Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library) Arthur Miller Book, Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Book,...
In the Shadow of Mt. TBR, March 24, 2009
...it a vigor and range of expression that was to prove a strong influence on his contemporaries, including William Shakespeare. FAUSTUS : “ The reward of sin is death? ” That’s hard. Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas. “If...
JerseySmarts.com, March 23, 2009
...two different anthologies of Shakespeare titles. In the mean time, Google Book Search has the entire works of William Shakespeare available for full download. Full download! Come on! I could easily be in a few thousand dollars LESS of student loan debt...
mingledsoil, March 22, 2009
...A reader would do very well to ask himself, having read this anthology, how he defines a sonnet. Certainly, Hilson provides little help for this task. His introduction to the volume rails against others of its kind, accusing them of deliberately ignoring...