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Shakespeare Book Club | Antony and Cleopatra

2 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I have read a few (abridged) Shakespearean plays from Orchard Classics this year. Little did I expect that the book that made me want to read the original was “Antony and Cleopatra”. I didn’t even know this play exists. I think the main reason why I...

Shakespeare in the Park

28 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

The Singapore Repertory Theatre is well-known for staging interesting adaptations of Shakespearean plays. Last year, they put on A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Fort Canning Park. You can tell that it was performed at night, with appreciative theatre en...

Which Shakespeare play would you recommend?

21 May 2024 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei

I work as an English teacher. However, in Singapore, English language is taught as a different subject as English Literature. (Unlike the States in which language arts fuses both language and literature aspects.) Moreover, I have always studied Scien...

Shakespearean English: Those that Proclaim "It's Greek to Me" Protest Too Much and Make Much Ado About Nothing

8 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I am, admittedly, one of those strange individuals whom actually enjoys reading Shakespeare's works, perhaps because I understand the words or look for definitions/explanations when I don't. (Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair.) I read his p...

Sanity and Quiet

17 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Here's a piece out of my journal, when I first moved into Steve's and the week before Lindsay moved in: I don’t have the exact date, but towards the end of September I moved to Steve’s empty pad with a telephone call and spent the first days there...

(JaiChai) Science Fiction: "Well, Well, Dear JaiChai!" - "Crestfallen Reflection" Collection

5 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

    "Well, Well, Dear JaiChai!" - from the "Crestfallen Reflection" Collection #1 of 3   (The antithesis of "Alas, Poor Yorick!")   About "Alas, Poor Yorick!" - From Shakespeare's famous play "Hamlet"; "Alas, Poor Yorick!" refers to the fleeti...