Twelfth nightMurray, Stephen

Twelfth night

by Murray, Stephen · first published 2007

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NickRandom · Jun 28, 2022 · Mentions

…Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s Tale. Average grades on them were between A+ to B's but dayamn! that olde timee englishee is hard to parse (even with the crib notes) and made me question…
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mcguire · May 27, 2017 · Mentions

Good article. Booth's Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night sounds intriguing, too. "Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen…
on “Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (2014)” ↗
anonymoushn · Oct 25, 2013 · Mentions

I'm not sure how to gauge whether I sound like a crunchy hippie, but I'll try not to. It's nice that children and hobbyists can read and perform Twelfth Night without paying gratuitous royalties to a company that is now completely unrelated to the long-dead William Shakespeare. It would be nice if, in 3013, children and hobbyists could read and perform The…
on “15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again?” ↗