From Shakespeare to Modern Ages

Electrifying Shakespeare: Modern Day Technology in a Renaissance Museum

Here's how it would work. You would be asked, in a computerized exhibit, to choose your favorite actor or a character in a specific Shakespearean scene. Then, a filmed image of the character or actor you chose would appear on a large wall screen and begin addressing his or her lines directly to you. When your turn to speak comes, all you would then do is to read out the lines scrolling by at th...

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Melville / Shakespeare

That Melville's Moby Dick contains nearly measureless references to the reading of Shakespeare is an old story featuring the whaling epic's persistent Shakespearean verbal echoes, the composition and sequencing of scenes, and the construction of Ahab as a tragic hero-villain, his shipmen as "knights and squires" and heroic commoners all caught in a tragic drama of the excesses and shortcomings ...

Wisdom across the ages and its modern day relevance.

Wisdom is derived (in modern language terms) from the Old English words wis ("of a certainty, for certain"; "Wisdom," 2015) and dóm ("statute, judgment, jurisdiction"; "Wisdom," 2015); wisdom is, at its broadest, defined as the "Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct; soundness of judgement in the choice of means and ends; sometimes less strictly, sound sense, esp. ...

Heuristics Ancient and Modern: Transport Scheduling Through the Ages