Over the centuries Bermuda’s extensive coral reef system has become a graveyard for literally hundreds of vessels including a 300-ton 17th century English merchant ship which changed the course of the island’s history, as bernews.com reports. The “Sea Venture” was the flagship of Admiral Sir George Somers’ relief fleet dispatched from England in June, 1609 to…
The revised key, published on September 24, still has at least three incorrect answers. The National Testing Agency said it will not entertain any other 'challenge' to the answer key henceforth.
To coincide with the publication of
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, we talked to some of the contributors of the volume. We asked them what they hope students and teachers would gain from their chapter, and where they hope the field will go in the future. Read on for their responses…
Scott Newstok, Rhodes College
Chapter: How to Think Like Ira Aldridge
What we can learn from the first black Shakespearean to achieve international professional renown? From 1825 until 1867, Aldridge toured throughout Europe. Just before his death, he was on the cusp of a return to his native United States. His cosmopolitan life was marked by triumphs as well as persistently racist responses to his roles. My chapter surveys seven of Ira Aldridge’s strategies for succeeding on the nineteenth-century stage:
The State’s Planned Covid Hell Is Coming, and Death Is Coming With It!
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
~ William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA
Imagine a time of total isolation, of loss of family and familiar contact, of hiding away from life, of covering up all emotion, of psychological torture, of starving due to extreme poverty initiated and enforced by state thugs, of loss of all movement, of 24 hour a day surveillance, of death by state mandate, or imagine having to make a choice to take a poisonous, controlling, and deadly vaccine or be locked away from living. This dystopian nightmare is already here, but it has just begun, and if left to the desires of the evil controlling devils in power, it will only get worse every day.