Bardolatry

Bardolatry, the worship of Shakespeare, ought to be even more a secular religion than it already is. The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. They abide beyond the end of the mind's reach; we cannot catch up to them. Shakespeare will go on explaining us, in part because he invented us....

7.08.2008 (Bardolatry for all ages and grades)

3.08.2008 and 2.26.2008 ("Slings & Arrows")

3.17.2008 (Shakespeare on my MP3 player)

12.09.2007 (The Shakespeare-d brain)

11.04.2007 (Shakespeare and Pat Conroy)

9.29.2007 (Steinberg on Shakespeare's naughty bits)

6.24.2007 (Shakespeare... and Poppets?)

3.16.2007 (Fine Art Friday entry on "Ophelia," c. 1864 (George Frederick Watts))

3.02.2007 (An article on the playwright of the g/Globe)

1.29.2007 (Chapbook entry on The Taming of the Shrew and related commentaries, as well as a hearty recommendation of CST's Short Shakespeare! production)

1.26.2007 (Shrew(d) recommendations)

10.19.2006 (Horatio and the Terry Hands-directed Hamlet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

9.30.2006 (Teaching/learning Shakespeare; includes film and audio recommendations, selected bibliography, tips, and more)

9.04.2006 (Hamlet or Lear?)

8.30.2006 (The Shakespeare "debate")

7.30.2006 (A civilizing influence)

5.15.2006 ("When I read Shakespeare...")

4.17.2006 (Macbeth at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

3.15.2006 ("He reads much.")

1.04.2006 (Improbable fiction: Twelfth Night)

12.07.2005 ("Shakespeare was, of course, conversant with Galen’s theory of humors.")

12.06.2005 (Profound and pedestrian)

11.10.2005 (The Tempest)

10.28.2005 (Harold Bloom)

9.01.2005 (Lit-crit: Shakespeare is in there.)

7.28.2005 ("Was there anything so real as words?" Shakespeare is in there.)

7.14.2005 (The Comedy of Errors at CST)

7.06.2005 (Recommended reading)

5.11.2005 (Again with the bard)

5.06.2005 ("[A]wed all over again by the magnitude of the mind that hatched plays as diverse as Henry V, Twelfth Night, Hamlet and The Tempest")

3.08.2005 (The Gem Shakespeare Library)

1.21.2005 (A man not without his reasons: The Merchant of Venice)

1.17.2005 (Hurl a Shakespearean insult!)

1.08.2005 (Books on tape)

11.30.2004 (Ed Paschke's portrait of Shakespeare)

10.22.2004 ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.")
10.25.2005 (A repost of the above)

10.22.2004 (The Shakespeare Project of Chicago)

10.19.2004 (Richard II)

10.12.2004 (An "On the nightstand" entry with particular focus on Henry IV and Falstaff)

9.14.2004 (Will in the world)

5.03.2004 (Shakespeare alive!)

4.23.2004 (Brush up on your Shakespeare)

4.23.2004 (Book recommendations)

4.07.2004 (An M-mv reader rhapsodizes on the theme of Shakespeare)

4.05.2004 (For the kids)

4.04.2004 (The first appearance of this popular post.)
4.24.2005 (And the second)
4.25.2006 (And the third)

3.31.2004 (A Midsummer Night's Dream at CST)

3.25.2004 (Hell to pay at Agincourt)

3.25.2004 (Recommended reading)

3.21.2004 (Shakespeare redux)

3.14.2004 (Poniards!)

3.12.2004 (The Two Gentlemen of Verona in an "On the nightstand" entry)

3.10.2004 (To read or not to read Shakespeare: links)

2.18.2004 (The Atlantic's Shakespeare contest)

2.15.2004 ("This above all: to thine own self be true.")
6.29.2006 (A repeat of this popular (much-linked) post)

1.12.2004 (The Shakespeare Sessions)

11.10.2003 (The invention of the human)

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