English at ArtsWest asks what is lost, or sacrificed, in translation seattletimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seattletimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Shakespeare did everything in style. Even sheltering in place.
When London was in one of its periodic plague lockdowns, in 1606, he didn t spend his time binge-watching Schitt s Creek. He wrote King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth. What s interesting, for a high school classroom, is for kids to think, Well, wait a second. I m living in a plague. How did Shakespeare deal with this? said Joe Di Prisco, founding chair of The Simpson Literary Project, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.
He, like many professors of Shakespeare over the past 12 months, has discovered that our COVID nightmare may be a teachable moment.
Shakespeare had his pandemic, too njherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from njherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.