Tag Archives: Midsummer Night's Dream

Summer Solstice Unleashes Dark Forces

Early works of Brit Lit used summer solstice imagery to explore clashes between Christian England and its pagan past.

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Poems for Keeping the Home Fires Burning

I’m currently into cutting wood. Frost offers some cautions.

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i thank You God for most this amazing

In his joyous poem “i thank You God for most this amazing,” e.e. cummings uses his distinctive style in service of expressing God.

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Dreaming of Travel during Covid

A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.

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The Bard Answers Pestilence’s Challenge

In Emily St. John Mandel’s dystopia “Station Eleven,” people turn to Shakespeare in a world that has been devastated by pandemic.

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Desire vs. Law in Shakespeare, Euripides

If a play turns comic or tragic often depends how how the clash between law and desire is negotiated.

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Check Out the Bard for Halloween

Shakespeare does a great Halloween. Check out Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Shakespeare Hated Bullies

Tuesday Last week a reader accused me of anti-Semitism for defending Merchant of Venice. While I’m always willing to learn new things about myself—personally, I think I have more trace elements in my system of sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, and ableism than of anti-Semitism—the response sent me back to early recollections of the play. For […]

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Teaching Lit in Ljubljana

I share my experiences teaching Shakespeare and post-colonial literature in Slovenia.

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