Last night was the third time I participated in a Great Books book club. Our group was a bit bigger this time around with two new members and a third member who rejoined the group after missing out on Sophist and the Henriad. This evening we discussed Julius Caesar on the roof deck of The […]
Twelfth Night, the Henriad, and Hamlet: My Shakespeare Week
It is Shakespeare Week here at “Ross All Over the Map.”Last night my wife and I went to The New American Shakespeare Tavern to see a great performance of Twelfth Night with new Atlanta friends. Today I am finishing up the Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV, part one, Henry IV, part two, and Henry V) […]
The Comfort of Poetry during the Move to Atlanta
We have to wait for just the right day, and unfortunately for an English teacher trying to work with some sort of course plan, I cannot identify that day until it arrives on the lawn, buried in an assortment of leaves. In Sonnet 73, Shakespeare asks us to look out into autumn, a particular moment […]
Thankful not to be the Prince of Denmark
A final one today from the archives… [What follows is a Vespers talk from Asheville School] December 5, 2004 Readings: Psalm 23 Hamlet 2.2.318-333 That Hamlet is a pretty smart guy, and in the audience we know it from the first moment he speaks to us. Indeed his first line of the play is directed […]