At St. Mary School in Pine Bluff, Holy Family Homeschool students have been busy rehearsing Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, which follows two sets of identical twins in a series of humorous misidentifications.
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Memorial Mass for Frank Shakespeare
On August 17, a Memorial Mass was celebrated for the repose of the soul of Ambassador Frank Shakespeare at St. Patrick Church in Cottage Grove
Shakespeare and the fading Catholic world
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Last week the world marked the 400th anniversary of the death of the greatest writer in the English language and one of the three or four most significant artists the human race has produced. William Shakespeare simply contains so much.
In the manner of Dante, Homer, Michelangelo, James Joyce, and Aquinas, he seems to encompass the whole: every texture of feeling, every nuance of thought, the tragedy of sin, the most exquisite longings of the soul, the most confounding confusions, heaven, hell, and everything in between.
St. Ambrose lecture focuses on Austen and Shakespeare
MADISON — Arguably two of the greatest writers in the English language — Jane Austen and William Shakespeare — share more than their greatness.
Austen, the master and perfector of the novel, and Shakespeare, one of the greatest of playwrights and wordsmiths, share an understanding of suffering, self-knowledge, and the transforming power of love.