News tagged with shakespeare
Shakespeare's skill 'more in grammar than in words'
William Shakespeare's mastery of the English language is displayed more in the grammar he used than in his words, according to a researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Doctors could learn from Shakespeare's deep understanding of mind-body connection
Shakespeare was a master at portraying profound emotional upset in the physical symptoms of his characters, and many modern day doctors would do well to study the Bard to better understand the mind-body connection, concludes ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Programmer has fun with monkeys typing Shakespeare theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just have to shake your head at some experiments done in the name of science, and go with the flow, or as Jesse Anderson puts it on his blog, “Keep Calm and Carry On.” He’s conducting an experiment, for fun, to see if he ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Exhumation of Shakespeare to determine cause of death and drug test
(PhysOrg.com) -- Director of the Institute for Human Evolution, anthropologist Francis Thackeray has formally petitioned the Church of England to allow him to exhume the body of William Shakespeare in order ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Professor's research allows audience to hear Shakespeare's words in his own accent
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like an archeologist reconstructing the fossilized skeleton of an ancient species, a University of Kansas theatre professor has pieced together the bones of a form of English that has never been heard in ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday word
William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2009 |
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New Shakespeare Archive launched
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Egypt to search 3 sites for Cleopatra's tomb
(AP) -- Archaeologists will begin excavating sites in Egypt next week in an attempt to solve a mystery that has stymied historians for hundreds of years: Where is the final resting place of doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 15, 2009 |
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To be or not to be
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scholar from Oxford's English Faculty has discovered that a painting lauded as the only known portrait of William Shakespeare painted from life is almost certainly of somebody else.
Mar 23, 2009 |
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From the works of Shakespeare to the genomes of viruses (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- What does uncovering the true authorship of plays attributed to Shakespeare have to do with identifying our genetic ancestors or classifying new life forms? All involve the comparative analysis ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 11, 2009 |
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