Tag: Shakespeare

July 28, 2014

A City-Sized Prison-House

With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat, …

Current Affairs, Middle East Studies
April 23, 2014

The Bard’s Birthday Quiz

Think you know Shakespeare? Think you know what famous philosophers would say about Shakespeare? Centuries after Shakespeare first put quill to paper, his plays continue to provoke philosophical questions that run the gamut from sexual ethics to narrative form. In 2009 Comp Lit professor, Paul …

Literary Theory