Ben Crystal

Reinventing Shakespeare: Why His Stories Are Timeless

2 weeks ago LitStackEditor

I often wonder what Shakespeare would think of his legacy. It would be difficult to imagine what ambitions he had...

Shakespeare and the Original Pronunciation

3 years ago LitStackEditor

Check out this very cool clip on the original pronunciations of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. From Open University: An introduction...

The Artist and Shakespeare: Performing and Understanding Shakespeare

8 years ago LitStackEditor

Performing and Understanding Shakespeare The first performance of a Shakespeare play was Henry VI Part II, staged sometime between 1590...

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On this day, July 30, in 1818, Emily Brontë was born in the village of Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The middle child of the three literary Brontë sisters, Emily was extremely shy and had very few friends or acquaintances beyond her family, often leaving the household only to go to church or to take walks in the surrounding countryside. Her only novel was Wuthering Heights, a surprisingly passionate book to have been written by such a shy and retiring soul. She never was able to realize the success of her book, for she died of tuberculosis a year after its publication, at age 30.

Ben Crystal

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Shakespeare and the Original Pronunciation

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