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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the form of a student petition asserting that a "Major English Poets" curriculum requirement features too many major poets from England who are white and male. The petition
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The month of May marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. His harrowing tragedy, Macbeth, depicts the fall of a once valiant general into a paranoid, murderous tyrant. In the play, Shakespeare warns his audience about the destructive force of unchecked power. He shows that tyrants abhor freedom;
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Four hundred years ago, on April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes died in Madrid. A former soldier who had fought bravely and been wounded at the battle of Lepanto, a captive for five years in Algiers, an impoverished tax collector who had troubles with his accounts and twice wound up
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Singing Valentine's cards have become a big hit on the web, but they're still missing a crucial component — and that's a human face behind the Valentine. For this Valentine's Day, we thought it would be more dynamic to bring some romantic verses
Shakespeare
The New Year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. This momentous occasion invites us to explore one of his most beloved characters, Sir John Falstaff. The wayward, hapless comic character was so popular that Shakespeare included him in three plays, and mentioned him in a fourth. He
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