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Shakespeare on Facial Expression and Non Verbal Communication

“… 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 Supersonic Speed Leading to Excellent Performance Review

“I’ll put a girdle around the earth In forty minutes.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 2, sc. 1) Tips for Use.  A good answer to the question, “When will you be back?” – especially if the questioner expects you to be back promptly and with mission accomplished. Clearly Shakespeare anticipated the space age and the concurrent Read More

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Shakespeare on the Power of Personality and Personality Type

GLOUCESTER The trick of that voice I do well remember: Is ‘t not the king? KING LEAR  Ay, every inch a king (King Lear act 4, sc. 6) Comments.  Confirm the exceptional standing of a person. You can change ‘king’ to ‘queen’, ‘prince’ or other equivalent (preferably monosyllabic) titles with equal effect. Equally effective in Read More

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Shakespeare on Thank you, Thank you notes, Comebacks and Insults

“Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds” (Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 5) Tips for Use. Perfect repartee for insincere social expressions and an elegant way to invite the other party(ies) to cut to the chase. Particularly applicable when the thanking appears insincere or when you wish to deflect with some humor Read More

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Shakespeare on Feminism, Women Power and Free Speech

 “Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2) Tips for Use. This line is specifically addressed to and usable by the members of the gentle sex. It also shows that feminism was not totally foreign to the mode of thought of Read More

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Shakespeare on Love as a Fever and All-consuming Passion

“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 Love as an Antidepressant, Effects of Love

 “…thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings” (SON 29) Comments. If just a thought can have this effect then it is not necessary to look for other symptoms (of love). Talking about changing one state’s with kings, King Henry VIII kept a lively and romantic Read More

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Shakespeare on Sex and Aging

“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?” (King Henry IV p2, act 2, sc. 4) Comments. Applicable to any aging Romeo. A modern equivalent is, “I still run after women but no longer remember why.” In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton, reflecting on the general cure for love-melancholy, says, Read More

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Shakespeare on Opinion and Performance Appraisal

“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.” (Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 2) Comments. Perfect answer to the question, “What do you think of him?” when your opinion of the subject in question is negative. It is an insult that takes away the coarseness without removing the sting. You may Read More

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Shakespeare, Independence Day and the Occupy Wall Street Movement

“Till now you have gone on and fill’d the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice; till now myself and such As slept within the shadow of your power Have wander’d with our traversed arms and breathed Our sufferance vainly: now the time     is flush, When crouching marrow in the Read More

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