Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.
James ShapiroTags: shakespeare biography literary-style malone life-writing
Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.
Daniel TammetTags: science shakespeare maths essay
Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Alex St. ClairTags: shakespeare
I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.
William ShakespeareTags: shakespeare
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
Hector BerliozTags: shakespeare hamlet culture
And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.
Aldous HuxleyTags: shakespeare modern-adaptations
I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
Tags: love shakespeare heart
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis.
Jeanette WintersonTags: art shakespeare enchantment spells
No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.
Harold BloomTags: shakespeare
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
Kim AskewTags: humor shakespeare young-adult
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