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do not go gentle into that good night

rage, rage against the dying of the light

@jstor just sealed itself in my heart as the coolest resource ever by combining my two greatest loves - Digital Humanities and Shakespeare - to create an AMAZING site called Understanding Shakespeare.

It works like this (hold on to your seats, this is so cool):

Say you reach a line in a Shakespeare play where there’s a reference or symbol you don’t understand and/or would like to know more about. Usually, it would take a substantial amount of time to figure out the meaning, find the key theme, search through research databases, and maybe hit something that references your line.

But no longer!

Because with Understanding Shakespeare, you can go to the line and look at all the scholarship published on JSTOR that features or references to it! Oh my god!!!

An example:

So I really love Richard II’s “graves, worms, and epitaphs” speech, it’s one of my very favorites, and I’d love to learn more about it and the symbols of death and historical references contained within it. So I go to the line in Richard II:

Click on the first line and voila! There’s a ton of articles that quote this line, and several of them look really interesting and relevant!

arthur makes the gigachad face at the green knight

the green knight says "all i see are lily livered bitches" and gawain replies with "the only bitch i see is thou"

all the knights hop around with hobby horses whenever they need to be riding a horse. gawain is seen driving a car with gringolet in the passenger seat but then he hobby horses across a busy road to chik fil a

gawain gets offered drugs by someone wearing a plague doctor mask and a dressing gown

gawain is given an enchanted sword which is just a soggy baguette from a lake

"cometh at me bro"

a scientologist monk almost gets kicked to death

"these are no ordinary breeches they come from the land of (checks label) old navy"

bertilak hunts a teddy bear and a pineapple which are attached to strings like puppets

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.