True Complaint--Shakespeare, Law, and Other Whimsies

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising F...

Maturity can always be depended on. Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green. I spoke horticulturally. My metaphor was drawn from...

The title of this post comes from a song featured in a one-woman, quasi-autobiographical musical by another Gretchen ( I'm Getting My Ac...

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Richard II , Act V, scene 5 Do you ever get the urge in the middle of the night to dig up a c...

April 23, 2014 was the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare, the man who may well be responsible for Shakespeare’s incomparable oeuvre of p...