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
SPRING AND DEPTH IN HOKKU
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And again — spring. Yes, by the old hokku and agricultural calendars, today
spring has begun. We have reached Candlemas — or by its more ancient name,
Imbo...
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