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A Comedy Where Gossip Does the Sword Work and Love Trips Over Its Own Feet Welcome to Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s festival of misunderstandings, accidental villainy, accidental romance, and accidental intelligence. This is the play where people fall in love by arguing, fall apart because someone coughed suspiciously in the bushes, and repair everything […]
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A Forest, A Banished Duke, A Lovesick Poet, And Enough Disguises To Confuse The Gods Welcome to As You Like It, Shakespeare’s backyard picnic of chaos where everyone escapes into the Forest of Arden, believing trees can fix emotional damage. This is the play where love happens with reckless speed, disguises multiply like rabbits, and
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A Love Story, A Loan Agreement, And A Courtroom Drama That Could Give Any Lawyer Insomnia Let us talk about The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s charming little cocktail of romance, wit, borrowed money, and casual racism that he wrote long before HR departments existed. This is the play where Venice behaves like the original financial
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KING LEAR: HOW TO LOSE A KINGDOM AND YOUR SANITY IN FIVE EASY ACTS “Nothing will come of nothing.”Thus spoke a king who had everything — except common sense. At the ripe old age of eighty (or as modern HR departments might call it, “past retirement with extreme prejudice”), King Lear decided it was high
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A Satirical Journey Through Ancient Pride and Modern Vanity What ABS Believes Satire walks into a room quietly but exposes everything loudly. Jonathan Swift did not approach intellectual quarrels the way timid scholars did. He walked straight toward them with the confidence of a man who knew he was about to expose everyone. When he
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Reimagined, Retold, and Ruthlessly Roasted Where We Politely Step Into the 18th Century and Immediately Regret It Picture London in the early 1700s.Everyone smells like rosewater, ego, and inherited entitlement. Tea has replaced oxygen. Coffee houses pretend to be intellectual hubs while hosting men who believe Latin is a seasoning. Women are expected to flutter,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: When the Soul Poses for a Portrait There are sins that roar and sins that whisper. Dorian Gray’s whispered beautifully. He began as a sketch of innocence, admired, adored, and almost unreal. By the time the canvas caught its final shade, innocence had become memory, and beauty had learned to
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“When Original Sin Became the Ultimate Startup Launch” In Hell’s headquarters, Satan pitches “Operation Eden” like a CEO, flanked by his infernal board of directors. The year is eternity minus one. The place: Pandemonium, headquarters of the most infernal board meeting ever held. The décor: gothic chic, with fire pits doubling as coffee machines. Around
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“Where Arrogance, Ambition, Jealousy, and Indecision Share a Table” The room is candlelit, the table long, the wine poured. Aristotle, somewhere in the heavens, checks his notes and wonders whether he should have included a chapter on dinner parties in The Poetics. Tonight is no ordinary feast. Tonight, the four great tragic heroes of Shakespeare
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A Diary of Life’s Little Survival Hacks 1. Monday Mornings Smell Like Espresso and Regret Proof that the only thing stronger than caffeine is collective denial. There are many theories about why human civilisation is in crisis. Some blame politics, some blame capitalism, some blame climate change. Personally, I blame Mondays. Nothing has ruined more
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