Author Archives: James Harriman-Smith
Word of the Day: Carbonado
After a slight hiatus, the Word of the Day returns to its favourite, culinary, hunting grounds with a word, drawn from Spanish and Italian, which means “A piece of meat or fish scored across and grilled over coals.” As the … Continue reading
Success in Inventare il Futuro Competition
By James Harriman-Smith and Primavera De Filippi On the 11th July, the Open Literature (now Open Humanities) mailing list got an email about a competition being run by the University of Bologna called ‘Inventare il Futuro’ or ‘Inventing the Future’. … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Qualm
Nowadays, we use the word qualm to mean a misgiving or pang of conscience, best seen in such phrases as “He had no qualms about taking candy from children”, and so forth. You might suspect a similar meaning in Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Dickens
This is not an article about the famous Victorian author, nor about the four cities in the USA all called Dickens, nor even the World War II battleship, the USS Dickens; rather, I write about a word that appears only … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Harbinger
This is an unusual English word, having undergone a remarkable evolution from its medieval latin roots. It began, according to the OED, as the verb heribergare, meaning to provide lodgings for, and thus, from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries a … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Philomel
This is an article on the daughter of Pandion I and Zeuxippe, raped by her sister Procne’s husband, Tereus, in the Thracian woods and transformed, along with Procne, into a bird. It is not an article about a little-known string … Continue reading
David Pearce, Freedom of Narrative
David Pearce is an actor and producer in The Propaganda Company theatre group, an ensemble of artists working and experimenting with performance and modern technology to express current issues and contemporary society. His article draws on this experience to discuss … Continue reading
Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim, Good Night, Tweet Prince
The authors of this article run the website Everyday Shakespeare (@EverydayShakes on twitter), which has been brightening many a Shakespearean’s life since October 2009. They have both kindly agreed to publish their work here under a Creative Commons 3.0 SA … Continue reading
Word of the Day: Pelican
Many of the colleges that make up Cambridge University, founded in more pious times, have religious names: Trinity, St John’s, Peterhouse (as in ‘The House of Saint Peter’, and thus never to be called ‘Peterhouse College’), and others are all … Continue reading
Erin Weinberg, Why do I blog about Shakespeare? It’s a Choice
This contribution from Erin Weinberg is published under a Creative Commons 3.0 SA BY licence and is another example of the same lively writing on Shakespeare and literature that can be found on her sites Why I love Shakespeare and … Continue reading