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How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, William Shakespeare, Al Pacino, Hamlet, Richard III, Shakespeare, Othello, Chaucer, Shakespeare Birthday, Culture News

When you finally meet William Shakespeare on his own turf, his language begins to open new doors in your consciousness.

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Poet Ted Hughes Will Be Honored Alongside Chaucer

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Ted Hughes Poets Corner, Ted Hughes, Poets' Corner, Poetry, Ted Hughes Poetry, Westminster Abbey Poets' Corner, Chaucer, Culture News

LONDON — British poet Ted Hughes is being honored with a memorial stone in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, joining a line of great British w...

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A Pound Of Flesh: Extraordinary Literary Debts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: David Graeber, Debt, Crime and Punishment, Canterbury Tales, Literary Debt, Merchant of Venice, Charles Dickens, Faust, Shakespeare, History of Debt, Chaucer, Books News

Today marks the release of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In this red-bound tome, Graeber explains the concept of debt and c...

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Unlikely Heroines In Literature

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Joan Didion, Unlikely Heroines in Literature, Canterbury Tales, Anna Karenina, The Gin Closet, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, David Copperfield, Heroines, The Wife of Bath, Chaucer, Books News

Sometimes even the most literary among us need some suggestions. And who better to oblige than the authors themselves? Welcome to Bookshelf, wherein w...

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Royal Wedding Questions

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 06.30.2011

Read More: Wedding Vows, Catherine Middleton, Royal Wedding Vows, Chaucer, World War I, Jane Austen, Kids, William and Catherine, Bronte Sisters, Hats, Westminster Abbey, Rudyard Kipling, Troll, Royal Wedding, Dickens, Abbey, Style News

Well, I don't know about the rest of you but I'm weddinged out. There hasn't been this much media coverage of an event since Lindsay Lohan's last arre...

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A Brief History Of The Word 'Sh*t-Faced'

Slate Magazine | Paul Collins | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Sh*T-Faced, Oed, Etymology, University of Texas at Arlington, Allen Ginsberg, Oxford English Dictionary, Chaucer, Books News

Some years ago, Slate contributor Paul Collins became curious about the history of the word bonkers. After a letter to the editors of the Oxford Engli...

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Reading As An Equalizer: What James Joyce, Shakespeare Can Teach Us Today

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Declan Kiberd, Democracy, Critical Thinking, James Joyce, Education, Marilyn Monroe, Toni Morrison, Literacy, Chaucer, Ulysses, Miguel De Cervantes, Classics, Mark Twain, Reading, Shakespeare, Education News

Kiberd reminds us to hold on to, and honor, the truly democratic project that education must be.

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The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness

Philip Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Pursuit of Happiness, Declaration, Declaration of Independence, John Templeton Foundation, Shakespeare, Happy, Thomas Jefferson, Happiness, Emory University, Chaucer, Religion News

How should we construe the right to pursue happiness? The problem is that the words "happy" and "happiness" are used today in variety of interrelated but distinct senses.

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Monty Python's Terry Jones -- Renaissance Man

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, John Cleese, John Oliver, Robin Williams, Allison Telford, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, The Daily Show, Proust, Ann Dudley, Norman Mailer, Monty Python, Anna Soderstrom, George Bush, War on Terror, Absolutely Anything, Tony Blair, The Royal Opera House, The Oxford Revue, Labyrinth, Lindbury Theatre, Iraq, Oxford, Evil Machines, Monty Phython and the Holy Grail, The Royal Grammar School, Chaucer, Jennifer Connally, David Bowie, Erik the Viking, Ripping Yarns, Entertainment News

Whether taking on Chaucer, challenging Ireland's most doggedly held beliefs of the Middle Ages, or having a child out of wedlock with a woman more than half his age, Terry Jones is not afraid to take on the establishment.

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How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shakespeare, Al Pacino, William Shakespeare, Chaucer, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, Richard III, College News

When you finally meet William Shakespeare on his own turf, his language begins to open new doors in your consciousness.

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13 Books Nobody's Read But Says They Have (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Don Quixote, Books, Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Infinite Jest, Famous Books, Chaucer, Bestsellers, James Joyce, Lying About Books, Proust, Slidepollajax, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Books are a funny thing. For hundreds of years, reading has been considered one of the highest forms of enlightenment. Because of the meaning and valu...

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Top 10 British Pubs In Literature

The Guardian | Richard Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HG Wells, Chaucer, English Pubs, Literary Pubs, The Waste Land, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Ts-Eliot, Graham Swift, Pubs in Literature, Thomas Hardy, Books News

After setting his latest novel in an English pub, Richard Francis drops in on his favourite literary drinking dens, from the Tabard in Chaucer's Cante...

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An Academic Outpost of Heaven

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

There's a particular alternate reality experience that I highly recommend. It happens to take place at an academic outpost of heaven. Forty five minu...

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Individual Stories, Universal Truth: 'One Amazing Thing' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaucer, Story-Telling, The Canterbury Tales, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Book Review, One Amazing Thing Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, India, Books, One Amazing Thing, Books News

Divakaruni portrays in beautiful prose, haunting characters, and a luminously and ominously developed plot, the universal and individual qualities of the search for meaning in life, as well as the search's timelessness.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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Gypsy Brides on Sale and the Money Side of Traditional Matrimony

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Matrimony, Medieval, Traditions, Money, Gypsy, Love, Family, Chaucer, Healthy Living News

Marriage compromises love because marriage is a commercial arrangement; it can involve an exchange where people are considered as commodities.

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Ranking The Best Poets Ever

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Top 10 Best Poets, William Blake, John Milton, The Inner Life, Top Poets, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Chaucer, Best Poets, 10 Best Poets, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, John Keats, Maya Angelou, Dante, Healthy Living News

In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...

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