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July 2004

July 30, 2004
Some exceprts from Coppelia Kahn’s stimulating feminist study of Shakespeare’s Roman plays [ Roman Shakespeare:...
July 30, 2004
In Shakespeare’s play, Cleopatra’s outburst against Agrippa (who has suggested that Antony marry Octavia, Caesar’s...
July 29, 2004
Nigel Cameron, director of a Wilberforce Forum council on biotechnology includes the following in his...
July 29, 2004
Some of the following notes were taken from a longer introduction to Julius Caesar posted...
July 29, 2004
Some of the following notes were taken from a longer introduction to Julius Caesar posted...
July 28, 2004
Paul Nickell’s 1951 Westinghouse Studio One production of Coriolanus is fast-paced, well-acted, and, making allowances...
July 28, 2004
The stage history of Coriolanus is as interesting as the play itself. It has provoked...
July 28, 2004
Glory and Song, 2 Chronicles 5:1-14 INTRODUCTION As we close out this brief series on...
July 27, 2004
INTRODUCTION For Elizabethans, Rome was not only an ancient power but a very real contemporary...
July 27, 2004
I wonder: If we take Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as a play about both ancient and...
July 26, 2004
INTRODUCTION Though MSND is set in Athens, there is little in the play that is...
July 26, 2004
INTRODUCTION Though MSND is set in Athens, there is little in the play that is...
July 26, 2004
ELIZABETHANS AND GREECE Today, many view ancient Greece, and especially ancient Athens, as the fountainhead...
July 26, 2004
Gilbert Highet has a wonderful chapter on translation in the Renaissance in his book, The...
July 25, 2004
I suggested in Against Christianity that worship can be understood as a sequence of postures:...
July 25, 2004
Lk 9:10-17 The Lord?s Supper has been celebrated in many different ways through the centuries....
July 25, 2004
Rom 6:1-4 Today, we?ve looked at several passages in Romans that display Paul?s interest in...
July 25, 2004
Our chief goal in organizing the worship of God is to conform to Scriptural patterns...
July 24, 2004
It is traditional, and true, to say that the resurrection of the body is still...
July 22, 2004
INTRODUCTION Coriolanus is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, and has often been criticized as...
July 21, 2004
Following is a set of notes for a lecture given at the Biblical Horizons conference,...
July 20, 2004
Present Your Bodies, Romans 12:1-21 INTRODUCTION As we’ve seen in previous sermons in this seriees,...
July 16, 2004
Ackerman points to an intriguing phenomenological difference between our dependence on air and our dependence...
July 16, 2004
Proverbs 9:1-6, 13-18: Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars;...
July 16, 2004
The always-interesting Diane Ackerman gives this wonderful list of aphrodisiacs: “Looked at in the right...
July 16, 2004
hordes rushing at me armed to the teeth from the future
July 15, 2004
Robert S. Miola’s article on Shakespeare’s Rome in the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays...
July 15, 2004
Robert S. Miola’s article on Shakespeare’s Rome in the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays...
July 14, 2004
The following is an abstract for a conference paper that I will be presenting in...
July 14, 2004
Here are some quotations from Clifford Ronan’s fascinating study of Roman plays in early modern...
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