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Happy birthday to William Shakespeare! Although his exact birthdate is unknown, many scholars believe he was born on April 23. Today also marks the 400th anniversary of his death, and many celebrations will occur around the world to honor the playwright and his work. You can find this 1640 edition of Shakespeare’s poems and other resources at the Beinecke Library!http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/
Over the course of Shakespeare's career, the myth of the bloodthirsty Muslim (found in "Titus Andronicus") is eclipsed by a more sensitive depiction in "Othello"
Today we commemorate William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death...
"Shakespeare makes modern culture and modern culture makes Shakespeare."
--from "Shakespeare and Modern Culture" by Marjorie Garber
--from "Shakespeare and Modern Culture" by Marjorie Garber
Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare. READ an excerpt here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/…/57929/shakespeare-and-modern-c…/
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