And you too, Brutus?" is what students read in a new genre of study guides that modernize the Elizabethan English found in "Julius Caesar" and other plays by William Shakespeare.
"Translations can be used as a wonderful tool to get students excited," she said, "but it does not replace Shakespeare's poetry."
"Beware the ides of March."
— Act 1, Scene 2.
"Beware of March 15."
— Same scene, "No Fear Shakespeare" translation.
Shouldn't that be April 15? Oh, wrong ides.
from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
2 weeks ago
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