In recent years the orthodoxy that Shakespeare can only be truly appreciated on stage has become widespread. But, as with many of our habits and assumptions, lockdown gives us a chance to think differently. Now could be the time to dust off the old collected works, and read some Shakespeare, just as people have been doing for more than 400 years. Many people have said they find reading Shakespeare a bit daunting, so here are five tips for how to make it simpler and more pleasurable. 1. Ignore the footnotes…
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Dandelions by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Dandelions Welcome children of the Spring In your garbs of green and gold Lifting up your sun-crowned heads On the verdant plain and world As a bright and joyous troop From the breast of earth ye came Fair and lovely are your cheeks With sun-kisses all aflame In the dusty streets and lanes Where the lowly children play There as gentle friends ye smile Making brighter life’s highway Dewdrops and the morning sun Weave your garments fair and bright And…
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A torchon after Indigo Weller Some need some Body or more to ape sweat on some site. Bloody purl or dirty spit hocked up for to show who gets eaten. Rig Body up. Bough bow to breeze a lazed jig and sway to grig’s good fiddling. Pine-deep dusk, a spot where stood Body. Thus they clap — when I mount banc’, jig up the lectern. Bow to say, “it’s all good,” we, gathered, withstood the bends of dives deep er, darker. They clap as I get down. Sweat highlights my body,…
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