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, Language, War and Madness

Posted on October 17, 2014 by jimmie

“Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is’t but to be nothing else but mad” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) That language continuously evolves needs no demonstration. It is commonly overlooked, however, how certain words or expressions – mostly injected into the lexicon by the regime media – suddenly rise to prominence Read More

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100,000 Visitors to Your Daily Shakespeare

Posted on October 1, 2014 by jimmie

“To solemnize this day, the glorious sun Stays his course, and plays the alchymist; Turning, with splendour of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.” King John, act 3, sc. 1 Yesterday, Sep 30, 2014, this site welcomed its unknown but appreciated one hundred thousandth visitor, in about two and a half Read More

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Shakespeare & the Dizzying Number of US Enemies

Posted on September 30, 2014 by jimmie

“…I know, to divide them inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory” Hamlet, act 5, sc. 2 That America has enemies is a truth ascertained by the eminent George W. Bush in 2001. However questionable and suspicious the whole 9/11 business was (and still is), he said it happened because “they envy our freedoms.” The Read More

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Shakespeare, Geography and Education

Posted on September 16, 2014 by jimmie

EVANS. I pray you, have your remembrance, child; Accusativo, hing, hang, hog. MISTRESS QUICKLY. Hang hog is Latin for bacon, I warrant you. (Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4, sc.1) Even the regime media had a good time in reporting the comments of an unnamed, though well-placed senior State Department High Priest who, when in Read More

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Shakespeare, Injustice and Careers

Posted on September 12, 2014 by jimmie

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.” (Measure For Measure, act 2, sc.1) On September 5, 2014, Henry McCollum and his half  brother Leon Brown left their North Carolina prison– where they spent 30 years for a Read More

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Shakespeare, New-speak, Double-think & Black-white

Posted on September 1, 2014 by jimmie

“A crafty knave does need no broker” (KHVI p2.1.2) Readers of this blog will no doubt have independently observed the current and ever-increasing instances of “Orwellian moments” in the speeches, utterings and “new-speak” declarations by regime pundits, or in sundry statements printed on the regime media. “New-speak” is too familiar to require explanations. But as Read More

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Shakespeare, Ferguson and Crowds

Posted on August 19, 2014 by jimmie

“I will no more trust him when he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses.” Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 1 Dr. Johnson used to say that the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and Read More

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Shakespeare & Murder at Sarajevo, part 2

Posted on August 11, 2014 by jimmie

“… hie thee from this slaughter-house, Lest thou increase the number of the dead” (King Richard III, act 4, sc. 1) In Aug 1914 millions of young people marched to their death as merry as the singers in the stars. Hamlet would say, “…I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a Read More

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Shakespeare and Murder at Sarajevo

Posted on August 4, 2014 by jimmie

“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” (Macbeth, act 1, sc. 5) Part 1 During this summer of our discontent, much has been said and written about the massacre of the Palestinians in Gaza, the civil war in Ukraine and the downing of the Read More

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Shakespeare, Communists and Watermelons

Posted on July 26, 2014 by jimmie

“…and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth” (Macbeth, act 5, sc. 1) When to the session of sweet silent thought, we summon up remembrance of things past…  we may recall the name of Rachel Carson, marine biologist, writer and author of the epoch-making “Silent Spring”.

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