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        <title>Coriolanus vs. Feanor vs. Achilles vs. Hamlet vs. You</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This Summer, a boy, whipped the trousers off Corioli's soldiers. This summer, a mother prevented her son from killing his mother.
This summer, Boston Common shook with Shakespeare, and I shook with it.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:26:25 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Happy Birthday, my dearest William</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Today, the 23rd of April, in an effort to maintain good culture, my students and I talked Shakespeare all day long. I went to purchase reasonable food supplies and then we proceeded to eat and drink his ever-lasting health. Each of them composed a poem in the rightful honour of the Poet.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:46:31 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Delicate Butterfly</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:12:13 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Live and Die a Poet</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[His birthday came, and there was great rejoicing. His death came, and the bosoms of his friends groaned violently within them.

Life was his playground and so was Death: neither could contain him. He was not meant for shallow waters: he was a mighty ship that did not disdain to carry us, poor intellects. This world was meant for him, and so God allowed him.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:41:34 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>The Cracked Pot</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tolkien got it right in his sweet Silmarillion (Ainulindale), where he stated clearly the superior power of Eru. It does not matter how defective the tool (Melkor) becomes, Eru has the power to draw straight lines with crooked writing materials. The Hamlet of Shakespeare too, at his end, understood this deep truth : There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
Therefore let us do our very best, leaving no room for mediocrity and pointless regrets, to push ever forward despite our sore shortcomings. The God Who made us will care for both the lily in the field and us.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:53:42 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Complete Hamlet</title>
        <link>http://www.tryshakespeare.com/articles.php?article_id=43</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Magnificent Play that begins with a question. Hamlet, the second most quoted work in the English Language, after the Bible? Yes, Hamlet! a majority argue that Shakespeare is the greatest writer in English, and that his Hamlet is the greatest piece of Literature ever written by human hand, ever! Concedo!  It is true that even you sometimes quote Hamlet inadvertently. So many lines have crept into the common lingo. Why not feed from the source right away?]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:34:49 -0500</pubDate>
        <category>TEACHING HAMLET</category>
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        <title>An Ugly World Without Children - Sonnet IV</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Our young man is called unthrifty loveliness because he spends and wastes nothing on anything but himself. Say, your father (or yourself for that matter) has some considerable wealth, both personal and inherited, and he sees fit to ensure that no one inherits a jot from him. He cuts off all his children, his wife and relatives. He is  possessed by a strange madness and goes far to plot their deaths.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:43:01 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Teaching Hamlet : Shakespeare Created the Most Complicated Character</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As of last week, we took a break from reading out loud in class. We went very far - I think up to the beginning of the very first scene. But the private reading has gone quite well. At least two have rounded up Hamlet in a corner, the other three I threatened with a gigantic Test if they did not get half done in two days. Wow! Hamlet in just one week, that is murder! of brain cells I mean.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:39:06 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Teaching Hamlet : Strategy 101 - Survival Series</title>
        <link>http://www.tryshakespeare.com/articles.php?article_id=38</link>
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        <description><![CDATA[After getting over my sentimental attachment to Hamlet and releasing myself from unknown holds, I went on to purchase, with great moneys, an adamantium spinal cord. I put it on and entered the class with mythical boldness. It must be known that I have no fear for humans, let alone my dear students, it is Hamlet, the Uber  who stares at me mysteriously through the blinds, thereby frightening me so.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:44:14 -0400</pubDate>
        <category>TEACHING HAMLET</category>
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        <title>I Hated My Teachers - Unlike Marcus Aurelius</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Marcus Aurelius, though offensive at times, can be a fine consolation to those who feel that leaders today, both in Church and State have grown grossly languid and empty in the brains; thereby adding to the favourite number of Solomon assigned to fools.]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:33:09 -0400</pubDate>
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