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Shakespeare on Facial Expression and Non Verbal Communication

Posted on July 27, 2012 by jimmie

“… there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour” (Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use.  We all draw initial impressions and indications from the facial expressions of people we meet. Use the line to effect when your interlocutor seems hesitant in answering a Read More

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Shakespeare on Power, Arrogance and the Arrogance of Power

Posted on July 18, 2012 by jimmie

“… man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.” (Measure For Measure act 2, sc. 2) Tips for Use. Include the lines in a resignation email when you Read More

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Shakespeare on Love as a Fever and All-consuming Passion

Posted on July 13, 2012 by jimmie

“My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease…” (SON 147) Tips for Use. When you are consumed with passion and cannot give her up. Or to express the strength of your attachment. In his massive ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’, Robert Burton, writing about the prognostics of love says, “What Read More

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Shakespeare on Those Who are Thick with It

Posted on July 9, 2012 by jimmie

“…his wit is as thick as Tewkesbury mustard!” (King Henry IV p2, act 2, sc. 4) Comments.  Excellent comeback especially appropriate for people who think of themselves as being witty when they are not.  One such category is that of the critics, who, according to Anton Checkhov “…are like horse-flies which prevent the horse from Read More

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Shakespeare on the Benefits of Wine

Posted on June 26, 2012 by jimmie

“A good sherris-sack hath a two fold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the crude, dull and foolish vapours which environ it: makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of quick, nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which deliver’d over to the voice (the tongue) which is the birth, becomes Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 5, the Justice or Judge

Posted on June 18, 2012 by jimmie

“And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lin’d, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part.” (As You Like It, act 2, sc. 7) Tips for use.  Of course the justice referred to in the quote was in Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 4, the Soldier

Posted on June 12, 2012 by jimmie

“… Then a soldier, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation, Even in the cannon mouth.” Tips for use. “Bubble reputation” applies at large and not only to those who seek it in the military. In fact, a moment of reflection will show how easily reputation, often a euphemism for Read More

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Shakespeare on Silence and Nonverbal Communications

Posted on June 8, 2012 by jimmie

 “… There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gestures.” (Winter’s Tale, act 5, sc. 2) Tips for use. Describe the astonishment of a silent audience. Also, pull the leg of an audience (it could be an audience of one) that is completely silent once you have finished your piece or speech. Substitute Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 3, the Lover

Posted on June 8, 2012 by jimmie

“… And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad, Made to his mistress’ eyebrow” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2)) Tips for use. Sighs and ballads dedicated to the mistress’ eyebrow are but two of a multitude of symptoms attributable to love. Robert Burton (1577 – 1640), a contemporary of Read More

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Shakespeare on Ambition, Upstarts, Lowliness as Ambition’s Ladder

Posted on June 7, 2012 by jimmie

“…’tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s    ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.” (Julius Caesar act 2., sc.1) Tips for use.  Sadly, a Read More

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