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“Who besides Shakespeare can continue to inform an authentic idea of the human?”
Conclusion to The Play’s the Thing Part One By Dennis Abrams It’s hard to believe it’s been two and half years since we started our journey through Shakespeare’s plays. For me, it’s been incredibly...
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“We look back at Shakespeare and regret our absence from him because it seems...
Conclusion to The Play’s The Thing Part Two By Dennis Abrams ———————————- Honestly, I can’t believe it’s over. For two and half years, We’ve been reading and talking and thinking about Shakespeare. And...
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‘”Henry VIII’ is an elegy for Shakespeare’s world-altering achievement in...
Henry VIII (All Is True) Act Five By Dennis Abrams ——————————— Act Five: The new Queen is soon pregnant, but the news only antagonizes the King’s secretary Gardiner, who vows to attack her and...
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“My love is as a fever, longing still/For that which longer nurseth the...
Shakespeare Sonnet #147 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ93Cduq_D4 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The...
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“His purposes here are very enigmatic, he abandons his career-long concern...
The Two Noble Kinsmen An Introduction By Dennis Abrams After the political intrigue of Henry VIII, it would be difficult to imagine a play more different than the one which followed it onto the stage....
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“Than I will trust a sickly appetite/That loathes even as it longs.”
The Two Noble Kinsmen Act One By Dennis Abrams MAJOR CHARACTERS Prologue and Epilogue Palamon and Arcite, cousins (the two “noble kinsmen”), both nephews of King Creon. Theseus, Duke of Athens...
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“I saw her first.”
The Two Noble Kinsmen Act Two By Dennis Abrams Act Two: In jail in Athens, Palamon and Arcite are busy consoling themselves with the closeness of their friendship when Palamon suddenly sees the...
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“Only a little let him fall before me,/That I may tell my soul, he shall not...
The Two Noble Kinsmen Act Three By Dennis Abrams Act Three: Separated from the royal party while out celebrating May Day, Arcite is suddenly confronted by Palamon. The two argue over Emilia once again,...
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“It is a falsehood she is in, which is with falsehoods to be combated.”
The Two Noble Kinsmen Act Four By Dennis Abrams Act Four: The Jailer’s Daughter, now completely mad, is reunited with her father. Observing her behavior, the Doctor advises that the only possible...
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“My love is as a fever, longing still/For that which longer nurseth the...
Shakespeare Sonnet #147 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ93Cduq_D4 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The...
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