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Monday, March 15, 2021

Something About Eight Guys Who Killed Julius Caesar

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Superb banquets, indeed.

Something About Twelfth Night

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To Sir Toby!

Staging "Twelfth Night"

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The third in a series of articles about Bellairs performing with the College of Saint Teresa Drama Department.

Study Shows Shakespeare As Ruthless Businessman

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This April 1 Associated Press article's description of William Shakespeare - "hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger" - says these words aren't usually how we think of the famed dramatist. Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue we should:

Alternate Histories in Children’s Literature

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An email appeared late last week regarding an entry at the Academic Call For Paper Database seeking scholarly papers on the subject of alternate history in the children’s literature genre:

Historical fiction as a genre within children’s and young adult literature has been traditionally viewed by some as unpopular. Alternate History is fiction where something has changed in the historical timeline: take a known and tweak it. The resulting story can be about that change or the backdrop for a story, where the “what if” is less about the Changed World Event and more how that Changed World Event changed the world, people, culture and their points of view. It can also be great fun for the person who is familiar with the history, to find references to famous people, places, and things that are now just a bit different.

Was Shakespeare's Ghost Writer ... Shakespeare?

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My introduction to the Shakespeare authorship question was Joseph Sobran's 1997 book, Alias Shakespeare. I don't remember much about the book now - except one of the proposed candidates was Christopher Marlowe, who I remembered as the "great reckoning in a little room" guy from The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull - but I still keep an eye open when stories and theories appear.

Including this April 26 article from CNN: