Published: October 05, 2025
I have been studying Hamlet for almost a month and have enjoyed the experience. In total, I have been studying for nearly 21 hours (1,243 minutes), not counting the time spent writing about it. When I was a student, I remember calculating how many pages I would have to read each day just to study the works I was simultaneously…
Read more...Published: September 11, 2025
Damn. Damn. Damn. ("Good Times", Season 4, ep 1) Studying Hamlet made me think of my old professor, who wasn't that old when he was mine. I wanted to reach out to him to say, "I'm finally studying Hamlet lol" only to find that he had shuffled off this mortal coil (Hamlet 3.1.75) a mere 7 years ago. Professor Stephen…
Read more...Published: September 07, 2025
Background I am a recovering English Lit major. I graduated with a degree in information technology, not with a liberal arts degree in English literature. However, one of the classes that just killed me as an English major was Shakespeare. We had to read a thousand plays and sonnets and write papers about them -- papers like "compare and contrast…
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