Category Archives: Shakespeare

65

Posted on April 2, 2015 by jyourist

65 is the magic constant of a 5 x 5 normal magic square. The Silence of the Lambs is the 65th movie on the AFI’s list of best films. 65 is the smallest integer that can be expressed as a … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 73: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” by William Shakespeare

Posted on October 13, 2014 by jyourist

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see’st the … Continue reading →

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“Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayest in me Behold” by William Shakespeare

Posted on November 14, 2013 by jyourist

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see’st the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to the Bard

Posted on April 23, 2012 by jyourist

Theseus: The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt: The … Continue reading →

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Elusive Security

Posted on August 7, 2011 by jyourist

xxxxxx And you all know, security Is mortals’ chiefest enemy. xxxxxx-William Shakespeare, Macbeth XXXXX(words of Hecate: Act III, Scene V)

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Comedy of Errors

Posted on October 14, 2010 by jyourist

We just saw Court Theater’s version of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors directed by Sean Graney. This is one of Shakespeare’s earliest, shortest, and most “slapsticky” plays. A perfectly bawdy, ribald, punny way to spend a Thursday evening rolicking in complicated … Continue reading →

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