I have two pieces in today’s Regina LeaderPost. On the front page of the Weekender section you can read my article on the science of autumn, which comes complete with a rather odd picture of me holding up a leaf and looking slightly deranged. Then, in the Arts and Life section, I’ve got a review …
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Preview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online
My preview of Globe Theatre‘s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online now at the LeaderPost. An excerpt: For audiences, it’s not physical vocabulary but Shakespeare’s 400-year-old verbal vocabulary that may intimidate. But Geoffrey Whynot, who plays Theseus and Oberon, points out that “in real life we don’t necessarily hear every word someone speaks. …
What I Just Read: Midnight Never Come
I recently (before I started blogging books) read Bill Bryson’s excellent short biography of William Shakespeare, and so I was well-prepped to enjoy Midnight Never Come, a fantasy novel by Marie Brennan, predicated on the notion that Queen Elizabeth’s court and rule over England above was mirrored by a fairy queen of equal power and …
Shakespeare doth prod the brain most wonderously
Of course, Shakespeare would have said it better than that. Here’s the gist of this new study: Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands …
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