IV. Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So [Read more…]
III. Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy [Read more…]
II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now Will be a totter’d weed, of small worth held: Then being ask’d, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To [Read more…]
I. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, [Read more…]
In his fourth book, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche seeks to unmask the fictions and delusions of European values and of European morality in particular. The book was written up from a series of notebooks that he worked on when out walking. It is divided into 575 [Read more…]
A Lecture on Shakespeare and Machiavelli, delivered to Sekai O Miru Kai Aster Plaza Hiroshima April 2009 1. The Villainous Machiavel of the English Stage Eighty-five years after his death in 1527, Niccolò Machiavelli made his first appearance on the London stage in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s play, The [Read more…]
The town of Elsinore on the East coast of Denmark attracts thousands of visitors every year. Their destination is Kronberg Castle, or “Hamlet’s Castle” as it has come to be known. The castle was built by King Eric VII in the early fifteenth century. Its purpose was to command the [Read more…]
Almost every time I have a question about the plot of a Shakespeare play, I find that William Shakespeare had it covered. For example, when Othello confronts Desdemona with her supposed adultery she asks him to send for Cassio to “Let him confess a truth”. Othello tells her that Cassio‘s [Read more…]
The word “turbulent” occurs only three times in Shakespeare, once in Timon of Athens, once in Pericles, and once in Hamlet, when Claudius asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, And can you by no drift of circumstance Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days [Read more…]
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