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by Eric Stephenson
October 14, 2014
in Analysis, Ten Reasons, Weekly Features
tags Drama, Eric Stephenson, Harold Bloom, James Shapiro, Shakespeare, Ten Reasons, Weekly Features
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Ten Reasons to Enjoy Shakespeare’s Works

by Eric Stephenson
October 14, 2014
in Analysis, Ten Reasons, Weekly Features
tags Drama, Eric Stephenson, Harold Bloom, James Shapiro, Shakespeare, Ten Reasons, Weekly Features
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In Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom argues that Shakespeare did more than just shape the structure and content of the English language—he created human nature as we understand it today. As James Shapiro explains, “Shakespeare remains so popular and his most memorable characters feel so real because through them Shakespeare invented something that hadn’t existed before. Bloom defines this as ‘personality,’ inwardness, what it means to be human.

by a featured contributor
October 13, 2014
in Drama
tags Arts & Entertainment, Casablanca, Drama, We'll always have Paris
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We’ll always have Paris.

by a featured contributor
October 13, 2014
in Drama
tags Arts & Entertainment, Casablanca, Drama, We'll always have Paris
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Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you’re getting on that plane with Victor where you belong. Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I . . . I . . . Rick: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! You have

by a featured contributor
October 10, 2014
in Drama
tags Agincourt, Drama, Henry V, History, Military, Shakespeare
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Henry V before the Battle

by a featured contributor
October 10, 2014
in Drama
tags Agincourt, Drama, Henry V, History, Military, Shakespeare
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Westmoreland: O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! King: What’s he that wishes so? My cousin, Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

by Cheri Arfsten
May 31, 2014
in Creative Writing, Drama
tags Affected, Cheri Arfsten, Creative Writing, Drama, Horror
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Affected

by Cheri Arfsten
May 31, 2014
in Creative Writing, Drama
tags Affected, Cheri Arfsten, Creative Writing, Drama, Horror
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SCENE I Dell is returning from a business trip and is shown tiredly walking to her car at Reagan National airport. She fumbles for her keys, unlocks the car, throws her suitcase in the back seat, collapses into the driver’s seat, shuts her door, then silence. Snow falls lightly outside her window. She starts the car and waits for it to warm up. Large circles of light are visible in

by a featured contributor
March 27, 2014
in Creative Writing, One Good Paragraph
tags Drama, Hamlet, One Good Paragraph, Shakespeare
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Hamlet’s Problem

by a featured contributor
March 27, 2014
in Creative Writing, One Good Paragraph
tags Drama, Hamlet, One Good Paragraph, Shakespeare
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I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.