I’m looking at my notes for today’s lesson on the final two acts of King Lear in English Literature Survey course, and I believe that if I made a list of the six most interesting bits I wanted to get to, I’d have missed five of them.? I know we were there for seventy-five minutes, [...]
I realized while planning today’s lesson that, until some of the characters just go devilish on the audience, I have a hard time blaming anyone in King Lear for what comes to pass.? On one hand, Regan and Goneril don’t speak up when the old man insists on keeping a 100-man private army after ceding [...]
Arden: The World of William Shakespeare
Almost thou convincest me to be an online gamer.
I had read about this project, I believe in WIRED magazine, and Mary is taking a technology in education class for her Master’s degree work, so I figured I’d poke around until I found it, and here it is.? The original version, [...]
I’m finally starting to formulate a vocabulary to name the difficulties I have with new historical and other “hermeneutics of suspicion”-style treatments of Christianity. It’s not that there’s critique simpliciter–theologians and pastors critique parts of Christian thought and practice all the time. It’s that critical theorists treat the Bible and Augustine and such [...]
And so I’m going to Atlanta in April…
It looks like the three papers for our Merchant of Venice panel have gone through, and I’ll be able to add another conference paper to my CV. Now I’ve got to resolve this next summer to work up a paper for submission to journals.
Oh yeah… and I’ve [...]
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