Dejection: A Mode
The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing—draw emotions from me, a woman two centuries their junior...
How-to self-care at court: 1540-1619 Edition
The Discourse, practical instructions one might find in a self-care listicle on the Internet today (“6 easy steps to succeed at court!”), is flanked by...
“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, posits that Thomas More’s self-formation...
It’s all in the family (business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior In King Lear, Act 3
“Thou think’st ‘tis much that this contentious storm invades us to the skin. So ‘tis to thee, But where the greater malady is fixed the...
Othello and the Drama of Basic Cable: A Lesson Plan
Preface: Playwrights and journalists tell stories; reality is for the courts to decide. The question of OJ's guilt or innocence will be tested by various...