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POSTED May 18, 10:06 AM

Today I will going to the Shakespeare Theatre's performance of Julius Caesar with a few students and several other teachers, so it's fitting that the quote below comes from that play. My column for Monday calls my current students my best ever (which is true), so you know I could never say this to them. But there have been (very rare) class moments over the last couple of decades when I would have liked to have been able to say:

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! (Julius Caesar)

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 15, 10:09 AM

We all can picture a politician who fits the contempt expressed in this quotation from Henry lV, Part 1:I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hearOf this vile politician.Choose your own example!... Read More

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 12, 10:16 AM

This quotation from Taming of the Shrew might come to your mind as you realize that many schools, including George Mason University where I teach, have just announced a tuition increase of close to 10% for next year:O, I am undone, I am undone!... Read More

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 6, 2:53 PM

This quote is from a review of Hamlet by Voltaire--who saw a performance in 1768, 167 years after it was written:It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy...one would imagine this... Read More

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 5, 4:32 PM

While I am on a roll with Henry IV (Falstaff is clearly the greatest comedian of all time--maybe alongside Lucille Ball), the Shakespearean quote of the day is: There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. Henry IV, Part 1... Read More

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 3, 10:41 PM

Today's quote comes from the marvelously funny Falstaff, who proclaimed, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men":'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish!... Read More

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Shakespearean Quote of the Day

POSTED May 1, 8:56 AM

The quote of the day is from Coriolanus, one of Shakespeare's best undiscovered plays. "More of your conversation would infect my brain." I can think of dozens of times I would have loved to use this line but I didn't discover... Read More

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Erica Jacobs
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.