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Tag Archives: Drama
Your Knight and Vagabond
Conversation starter kept on a echo of same things said. Mostly, I suppose cause it’s what’s stuck in my head lately. How does one move beyond square one when to move requires another to have the confidence needed to make … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, Belong, Connection, Dance, Drama, Faith, Fear, Find, Future, Good Enough, Hand, Hard, Home, Hope, Knight, Know, Light On, Love, New World, North Star, Pain, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Shadow, Side By Side, Sorrow, Sorry, Special, Step, Story Book, Strength, Strong, Sympathy, Together, Tomorrow, Truth, Vagabond, Wish
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Dryden – All For Love, Act III
It is said that Mark Antony offered Cæsar his crown at Rome on February 15, 44 B. C. We have previously discussed the life and legacy of English poet and playwright, John Dryden. We have also discussed All For Love. This … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged All For Love, Caesar, Drama, Harvard Classics, History, John Dryden, Rome
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Euripides – The Bacchae
Born in approximately 480 BC, the Athenian tragedian Euripides from who approximately 18-19 extant plays of his approximately 92-95 dramas have survived. He along with Aeschylus and Sophocles are most of what we know of ancient Greek drama. Euripides has … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Athens, Dionysus, Drama, Euripides, Harvard Classics, Pentheus, Sensuality, Spirituality, The Bacchae, Thebes, Tragedy
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Shoemaker’s Holiday – Thomas Dekker
The English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, Thomas Dekker, was born in approximately 1572 and lived until August 25, 1632. During his busy life, he was a versatile and prolific writer for several decades. This brought him into the lives of … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Wilhelm Tell – Friedrich von Schiller
The legendary date on which Tell shot an apple off the head of his son with an arrow was November 18, 1307 “Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Crossbow, Drama, Friedrich von Schiller, Goethe, Habsburg Empire, Harvard Classics, Independence, Playwright, Swiss, Switzerland, Wilhelm Tell
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: All For Love – John Dryden
John Dryden dominated the literary life of the Restoration Period of England so much so that some refer to this period as the Age of Dryden. He was an English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. In fact, he was … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: A Blot in the ’Scutcheon – Robert Browning
Robert Browning’s story is one of a journey from success to near obscurity to success again. From this a lesson may be drawn. Never give up, never surrender. There is another lesson to which so many successful persons teach us. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Blot In the 'Scutcheon, Character, Drama, Harvard Classics, Irony, Monologue, Playwright, Poet, Robert Browning
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