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This week, our #PoliticalStudiesProgram fellows consider Shakespeare's depictions of tyranny and kingship—here they are on the way to the Folger Shakespeare Library! Learn more about Week II of the #PoliticalStudiesProgram: https://lnkd.in/egqsyZt4

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! 📜 Let it be known that episode 8 of "Better Know Cincy's Arts," featuring the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, has arrived! In this episode, we chat with Candice Handy, Director of Education, about the importance of arts education for students in the region. Check it out below! #CincyArts #betterknowcincysarts

"To be or not to be, that is the question" is a famous line from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In the context of the play, it reflects Hamlet's contemplation on life and death, specifically whether it is better to exist and face the challenges of life or to cease existence altogether. It delves into the approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will and the human struggle with mortality. Overall, it raises philosophical questions about the nature of existence and self-determination. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today is the Shakespeare's birthday and World Book Day !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Felt worth highlighting the legendary. His wisdom has contributed immensely to the progress of humanity.

Session 6: Rough Magic: Shakespeare on Power Johns Hopkins University https://lnkd.in/g6fGTJnR

My next video explores another popular GCSE text. This time it's all about Shakespeare, and I take a look at the character of Lady Macbeth. https://lnkd.in/eZSEDAs8 #macbeth #gcseenglishliterature #shakespeare #classicliterature #englishliteraturestudent #ladymacbeth #englishliterature

Session 1: Rough Magic: Shakespeare on Power Johns Hopkins University https://lnkd.in/gPF4sfj8

🔎 Dive into a Discerner's comprehensive comparison of William Shakespeare's Henry V Act 1 to other Shakespeare works. Explore line by line comparisons and enrich your understanding today! #ShakespeareMeetsAI #Discerner 📚🤖

More from the RSC on learning Shakespeare and the process of acting his plays: https://lnkd.in/g-vRdcZU

Austin Tichenor has a good, brief article on Shakespeare's repurposing of sources. He writes: "Charlotte Artese, author of Shakespeare and the Folktale, explained on the Folger’s Shakespeare Unlimitedpodcast that Shakespeare frequently refers to things that have little meaning to us now but would have been familiar to his audience then. Among her many examples, Artese cites Ophelia’s odd-seeming non-sequitur “They say the owl is a baker’s daughter” from her mad scene in Hamlet as referring to a folktale in which Jesus turns a baker’s daughter into an owl for giving him a meager portion of bread..." And as I've argued before, the tale of the baker's daughter changed to an owl might best be considered as a repurposing/transformation of the gospel tale about the rich man and the beggar Lazarus - which is referred to by the ghost regarding his "lazar-like" skin after poisoning - and also referred to by Horatio in 5.2 as a paraphrase from the requiem Mass about Lazarus welcomed into heaven: "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” So Shakespeare transforms and repurposes sources that had already represented transformations of earlier sources. In Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus speaks of a similar repurposing: "And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Tichenor begins with the example of Ovid's Metamorphoses: It was only within the last two years that I realized Gertrude drinking from the cup poisoned by Hamlet's uncle/stepfather might be a transformation from the Metamorphoses of King Aegeus knocking from the hand of his son the cup that had been poisoned by his stepmother, Medea. There are many commonly cited allusions in Shakespeare, but perhaps others still remaining to be noticed... #Shakespeare #drama #literature #theater #repurpose #transform

460 years ago this week, playwrite William Shakespeare was born. One of our newly joined content partners dives deep into Shakespeare's many plays, including an excellent segment that explores the unique language of his works. Some are words and phrases invented by Shakespeare himself; others are words that pre-date the Bard and whose origins have been forgotten by many of us. Did you know that the word "engrained" can be traced back to cactus bugs? Watch the video: https://lnkd.in/dBAnz_b2 #k12 #digitallearning #videolearning