Just as much as fiction or drama, history and biography have the power to take us out of our time, place and solipsistic egos and open our eyes to other ways of being – good and bad, crazy and sublime. … Continue reading
Tag Archives: The Year of Lear
In “The Year of Lear,” about how the events of 1606 are reflected in the works Shakespeare produced during that year, we are told about an Elizabethan divine who preached in 1577 during a time of plague, when the poet … Continue reading
In our silicon age of technology where money, power, fame and respect go to quantifiers, can anything be said for the lowly, ill paid, unmonetizable humanities, or even for science not practiced in pursuit of corporate or state interests? Well, … Continue reading