Category Archives: Presentation Ideas

Shakespeare is an inexhaustible source of presentation themes and ideas, including starters, epilogues and quotes that can revive the spirit of the audience. A well placed quote at the beginning of a presentation catches the attention and at the end it may be what triggers the applause. Relatively few people realize that in a presentation you cannot have form without substance, but substance without form can kill the effect. In the book “Your Daily Shakespeare” there are more than 10,000 instances of how to adapt a Shakespearean quote to any situation, including, of course, hundreds of examples usable in presentations.

Shakespeare, Crowds in St. Peter’s Square and the Pope

Posted on March 14, 2013 by jimmie

“… is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?” (King Henry IV, part 1, act 5, sc. 3) Comment. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was a French sociologist famous for his study of the behavior of crowds. His book “The Crowd – A Study of the Popular Mind” is instructive. As it is the case with Read More

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Shakespeare, Primroses, Austerity and Hypocrisy

Posted on March 13, 2013 by jimmie

…. The primrose path of dalliance threads And recks not his own rede” (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 3) Comment. If yesterday it was daffodils, today it is primroses (primula vulgaris, for the botanists), another floral emblem of Spring. Equally laden, furthermore, with symbolic and metaphorical meanings, pertinent to Laertes’ (as it’s the case here), as Read More

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Shakespeare and the Physics and Mathematics of NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by jimmie

BIRON. By Jove, I always took three threes for nine. COSTARD. O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living by reckoning, sir. (Love’s Labours Lost, act 5, sc. 2) Comment. As it often happens, when an earth shattering episode becomes a myth, no rational discourse is any longer possible. This is the Read More

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Shakespeare, Chavez and the Associated Press

Posted on March 9, 2013 by jimmie

“Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch” (KHVI p2.4.2) Comment. Among the large volume of nonsense uttered in the US corporate media regarding the death of Hugo Chavez, one of the most extraordinary prizes for stupidity (and that is being kind) must be assigned Read More

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Shakespeare, Obama and the Right to Assassinate US citizens within the US

Posted on March 7, 2013 by jimmie

“That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a colour for his death: ‘Tis meet he be condemn’d by course of law.” (King Henry VI, part 2, act 3, sc. 1) … so says Cardinal Beaufort who wants to assassinate the Duke of Gloucester. But, as you see, the Cardinal and his Read More

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Shakespeare on the Overwhelming Power of Illusion

Posted on March 4, 2013 by jimmie

“Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses” (Macbeth act 2, sc. 1) Comment. In a previous post, see Feb 28, “Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox…” there is a reference to a very long video by a Danish Professor, interviewed Read More

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Shakespeare on the Growing Suspicions about 9/11

Posted on February 28, 2013 by jimmie

“Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne’er so tame, so cherish’d and lock’d up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.” (King Henry IV, part 1, act 5, sc. 2) Comment. Almost 12 years after the event, we should think that Read More

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Shakespeare, Macbeth and Obama’s Jokes on Death by Drones

Posted on February 23, 2013 by jimmie

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5) Comment. During a White House Correspondents Dinner, President Read More

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Shakespeare and Useless Expectations on Education and Everything Else

Posted on February 21, 2013 by jimmie

“…the raven doth not hatch a lark” (Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3) Comment. Comes a point when whatever is said (on the current national-international conditions) terribly sounds as deja-vu, or to be more accurate, deja-dit, not only by the  redactor of this site but by just about everyone else. Take the case of the so-called Read More

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Shakespeare on the Power of Imagination (or lack thereof)

Posted on February 16, 2013 by jimmie

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them into shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” Midsummer Night’s Dream ((act 5, sc. 1)  Comment.  Many would agree that it is not Read More

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