Bard – NapaShakes

Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare

napashakes December 21, 2018 December 25, 2019Dramaturgy, Education, Influences On Other Authors, Literature, Poetry, Robert Burns 0

In anticipation of our upcoming Burns Night Supper on January 25, we share an article from 2016, reprinted with permission from “The Conversation” written by Gerard Carruthers,the Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Bard blood. Wikimedia Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow January 25, 2016 1.19am EST While Robert Burns…

The Bard Abides

napashakes August 11, 2015 August 11, 2015The Sonnets, Will's World 0

Was Shakespeare a Stoner? Recent evidence suggests: maybe. From CNN in London, United Kingdom: Was playwright William Shakespeare stoned when he penned masterpieces like “Hamlet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? New correspondence published in the South African Journal of Science highlights how an analysis of…