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		<title>Stratford, the Hamlet of Shakespeare, and Book Photography</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2010/07/08/stratford-the-hamlet-of-shakespeare-and-book-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the outskirts of Stratford Ontario lies the hamlet of
&#160;
Shakespeare. Between Shakespeare and Stratford, lies this
&#160; 
mail box, and in Stratford itself, in addition to the Festival, this Book:
&#160;
&#160;
Stratford, the Hamlet of Shakespeare, and Book Photography is a post from: NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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		<title>Great Shakespearean one-liners</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2010/02/25/great-shakespearean-one-liners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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Image from here.
&#160;
&#182; If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 
	
&#182; Hell is empty and all the devils are here. 
	&#182; He that loves to be flattered is worthy o&#39; the flatterer. 
	&#182;&#39; Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. 
	&#182; They do not love that do not show [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2010/02/25/great-shakespearean-one-liners/">Great Shakespearean one-liners</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Thwaite, Grief, Hamlet and Suicide</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2010/01/28/thwaite-grief-hamlet-and-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Everett Millais: Ophelia
Mark Thwaite treats us to a moving, personal take on his struggle with grief, and how reading Hamlet has helped.&#160;

	
He ends with these beautiful paragraphs:
	

In my own minimal madness, I read &#34;Hamlet&#34; and I heard Hamlet call. Heard him speak to himself, of himself and half-realise he could hardly keep up with [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2010/01/28/thwaite-grief-hamlet-and-suicide/">Thwaite, Grief, Hamlet and Suicide</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Narrative, Evolution and Self Preservation.</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2009/10/22/narrative-evolution-and-self-preservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I wrote a post on Jerry Coyne&#8217;s contention that James Wood thought evolutionary biologists who venture into the literary jungle &#8216;a pack of morons.&#8217;&#160; William Flesch, author of a book on the evolution of co-operation [ Comeuppance, Harvard, 2007] commented that Coyne&#8217;s remarks were puzzling, given that Wood had included Comeuppance on [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2009/10/22/narrative-evolution-and-self-preservation/">Narrative, Evolution and Self Preservation.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>MacBeth and what was in the Witches Brew</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2009/10/02/macbeth-and-what-was-in-the-witches-brew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Knotweed
&#160;  Eye of Newt, and toe of frog,
&#160;&#160;&#160; Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
&#160;&#160;&#160; Adder&#8217;s fork, and blind-worm&#8217;s sting
&#160;&#160;&#160; Lizard&#8217;s leg and howlet&#8217;s wing
Pretty gruesome stuff, but likely just herbs by other names&#8230;.names designed to gross out the masses, to stop them from practicing magic. Here are some&#160; translations: 

Eye of Newt Mustard [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2009/10/02/macbeth-and-what-was-in-the-witches-brew/">MacBeth and what was in the Witches Brew</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Flowers, Shakespeare, and the horror of bad smells</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2009/09/19/flowers-shakespeare-and-the-horror-of-bad-smells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NB Flowers
I first came across the Alcuin Society Awards for best Canadian book design several years ago when researching for this interview with multi award winner C.S. (Scott) Richardson. I recall being rather pleased that I actually had several award winning books in my collection, including Atmospheres Apollinaire by Mark Frutkin (Porcupine&#8217;s Quill, 1988). Ever [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2009/09/19/flowers-shakespeare-and-the-horror-of-bad-smells/">Flowers, Shakespeare, and the horror of bad smells</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Audio Interview with Prof. Joseph Khoury on: Succession in King Lear and Hamlet</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2009/08/20/audio-interview-with-prof-joseph-khoury-on-succession-in-king-lear-and-hamlet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles H. Cameron as King Lear (1872) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, Photo by
Julia Margaret Cameron
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet before James l came to the throne. Events in the play reflect many of the real world concerns that&#160; Englishmen had about being ruled by a foreigner. At the play&#8217;s end, Denmark&#8217;s line of&#160; rulers [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2009/08/20/audio-interview-with-prof-joseph-khoury-on-succession-in-king-lear-and-hamlet/">Audio Interview with Prof. Joseph Khoury on: Succession in King Lear and Hamlet</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s MacBeth Angry and Awful</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2009/01/04/chicagos-macbeth-angry-and-awful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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&#160;
Here&#8217;s an immediate, not entirely considered&#160; &#8212; yes, exactly what bloggers are excoriated for by haughty traditional media types &#8212; gut level response (one that may be re-visited) to last night&#8217;s MacBeth, performed by the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre:
It knows only one emotion. Every character on stage spits and seethes with anger.&#160; When news that fathers [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2009/01/04/chicagos-macbeth-angry-and-awful/">Chicago&#8217;s MacBeth Angry and Awful</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Serpent Flower</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/08/13/serpent-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo from here.
&#34;Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under&#8217;t.&#34; Macbeth (Act I, Scene V)
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		<title>The coolest man in the history of the world.</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/07/04/the-coolest-man-in-the-history-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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Amazing what a simple pair of shades can do. 
The coolest man in the history of the world. is a post from: NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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		<title>Sovereign eyes, golden faces</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/06/23/sovereign-eyes-golden-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Darek Smid&#8217;s Photo. &#160;
XXXIII.
Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
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		<title>Audio Interview with Author Margot Livesey: On Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/06/03/audio-interview-with-author-margot-livesey-by-nigel-beale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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&#34;Margot Livesey grew up in a boys&#8217; private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. After taking a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England she spent most of her twenties [in Toronto] working in shops and restaurants and learning [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2008/06/03/audio-interview-with-author-margot-livesey-by-nigel-beale/">Audio Interview with Author Margot Livesey: On Shakespeare</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>William on William: Hazlitt on Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/05/31/william-on-william-hazlitt-on-shakespeare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

Is Shakespeare vanishing? 
&#34;&#8230;this tragical Titan, who storms the heavens, and threatens to tear the world from off its hinges; who, more terrible than Aeschylus, makes our hair stand on end, and congeals our blood with horror, possessed, at the same time, the insinuating loveliness of the sweetest poetry. He plays with love like a [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2008/05/31/william-on-william-hazlitt-on-shakespeare/">William on William: Hazlitt on Shakespeare</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>The Role of the Fool</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/05/21/the-role-of-the-fool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louise McConnell]]></category>

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&#34;Whereas the comedy of the clown arises from the broad comedy of slapstick or bawdy, or the unintentional misuse of words&#8230;the wit of the fool is more deliberate, his punning and riddling sharp and witty. Traditionally melancholic, the fool rarely intervenes in events. He usually remains emotionally disengaged from the other characters and his detachment [...]<p><a href="http://nigelbeale.com/2008/05/21/the-role-of-the-fool/">The Role of the Fool</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nigelbeale.com">NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS</a></p>
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		<title>Speaking of Hamlet: William Shakespeare as Raymond Carver</title>
		<link>http://nigelbeale.com/2008/05/18/speaking-of-hamlet-william-shakespeare-as-raymond-carver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 02:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Beale</dc:creator>
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Editing Hamlet: Hugh Laurie as Shaky Rowan Atkinson as Gordon Lish (via bibliothecary)
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