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...departmental offerings satisfy Literature and Arts requirements. Any course—be it under a department or under some extra-departmental administration—should satisfy either requirement if it contains substantial engagement with that category’s subject matter. For instance, English 124d, “Shakespearean Tragedy,” should unreservedly satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement, while Music 1a, “Introduction to Western Music from the Middle Ages to Mozart,” should likewise count for Literature and Arts B. Courses that contain both literary and non-literary components, such...
...contemplates the age-old question, “What are the chances that three chimps in captivity on typewriters will reproduce ‘Hamlet?’” The humor comes from a myriad of literary references, including the chimps’ constant, oblivious mutterings of Shakespearean lines.Playing the three monkeys, Jay D. Musen ’09 was head-on with every deadpan joke while Kathleen E. Hale ’09 and Rory N. Kulz ’08 both brought over-the-top physical comedy to the performance. With such fertile material to work...
...look at how the spirit of the country has changed after the terrorist attacks. His uneven but captivating rumination on the intersection of divorce, terrorism, and national unity perfectly describes some of the darkest machinations of the American soul with an odd muddling of insight bordering on the Shakespearean and sardonic litotes befitting Jon Stewart...
...week" of coup plotting and leaks. That was self-serving, but it also captured a powerful truth. Unless the post-Blair Blairites are disciplined enough to show Brown more loyalty than Brownites have shown to Blair, Labour could find itself paying a steep electoral price for allowing the strange Shakespearean struggle between Prime Minister and Chancellor to run so long...
...entire tragedy almost takes on Shakespearean dimensions," says David Berg, a Houston attorney who authored The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win. "His fall from power was so great that it just destroyed him. In some ways, you would think that Ken Lay would rather have died than spent a moment in prison." Lay, who was awaiting sentencing in the fall, faced imprisonment for possibly the rest of his life. "On some subconscious level, it's a polite form of suicide. He was not going to let himself be imprisoned...