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The British Bard and Bollywood
Poetry editor Aayushi Agarwal shares her encounters with Shakespeare through Hindi film adaptations, begging the question: how can movies be used as a tool of cultural empowerment and reclamation?
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Shakespearean Sonnet Shenanigans
By Alex Mika It’s been two weeks since Valentine’s Day appeared on our tear-away calendars, and as the pink dust settles and the flowers start to wilt, you may be wondering, “What did I get myself into?” You may even begin to think that the comedy of errors that is…
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Was “Shrek”s Lord Farquaad based on Shakespeare’s “Richard III?”
(If you’ve never seen Shrek (2001) or read Shakespeare’s play Richard III, let me warn you: Spoilers lie ahead! If you have seen Shrek, welcome to my conspiracy theory.) This theory started when I was taking an Introduction to Shakespeare course last year, and one of the assignments was to…
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Putting Shakespeare in the Schoolyard: Celebrating movie adaptations
When reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it may be difficult to understand why it’s such an insult that Mr. Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth. Or it may not seem like a big deal for Lydia to run off with a soldier, or it may be confusing when…
Writer Crush Wednesday – Ian Doescher
I’m the kind of person that doesn’t really have a favorite author or a favorite book because that status is always changing. That being said, my current flavor of the month is Ian Doescher, an only recently published author, known for his bestselling debut novel, “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A…
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—*
Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread….
I don’t “get” Poetry.
What is there not to get? I often hear the expressions I don’t like poetry/I’m not a fan of poems /I don’t care much for poetry from English majors, and people who consider themselves fans of literature (blasphemy to my ears). It is seldom, or actually never the case where…