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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Monday, October 26, 2015

Questions about "The Bard"

Also, many of you had questions for me about Shakespeare and while I try to answer them I'm far from a Shakespeare expert.



I invite you to contact David Crystal. He (and his son) wrote the Shakespeare dictionary we have in class. He's a brilliant scholar, but very into getting in touch with people and being a public figure. You might mention again that you're writing from Bogotá, Colombia. As I said, he´s visited so he might make a connection with you based on that visit.

Questions about "Barnes" by Edmundo Paz Soldán

I was thinking about what many of you said about the character´s name in this short story. Why not email the author? He´s a professor at Cornell. I invite you to send questions to him there. I would be sure to mention that you´re a student living in Colombia. He might be more apt to respond. Here´s his  profile page at Cornell. 

Tonight's Assignment

Continue to work on Task 3, as assigned by the Earl of Leicester. I will be pulling you aside and asking you to interpret one line, and explain your delivery of that line.



Complete your logs for Act III.i.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Shakespeare Is Catholic (or Not)

Some of us were talking about Shakespeare´s religious views. I found this Wikipedia article that cleared up a lot of mixed-up notions I had.