Spark Publishing in the USA have translated nineteen Shakespeare plays into modern language. The series is published under the No Fear imprint .
Carlin Romano over at the Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at some of the texts and illustrates why the task fails miserably and how it should never have been undertaken.
I’ll confine myself here [...]
In the Kenyon Review, Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky discusses this strange beast we call America, and the role of fiction in our lives.
I’ve always assumed that one of the basic needs that literature serves is to allow us to imagine experiences we may never have and solicit our empathy for those whose lives are unlike [...]
Robert Fulford in the National Post discusses why art is his religion. The cons and the pros.
. . . we also can’t claim that immersion in the arts will create a lively mind. Art education has produced armies of learned bores. I knew a man who had Shakespeare, Verdi, Beethoven and the rest of the [...]
The term, functional shift, refers to the way one part of speech is made to serve another; often a verb shifting or altering its nature to become a noun. The line in King Lear for example, where Edgar compares himself to the king: “He childed as I fathered”, sees nouns shifting to verbs. There are [...]
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