Rikita Tyson
Rikita Tyson received her PhD in English from Harvard University in May 2012. Her dissertation focused on modal verbs, rhetoric, and the display of subjectivity in Shakespeare's comedies...
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play: romeo and juliet play: macbeth play: hamlet rhetoric no fear shakespeare words words words
On Juliet, matrons, and apostrophe
19 December 2020
“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, / Toward Phoebus’ lodging; such a waggoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the west, / And bring in cloudy night immediately.”...
1 April 2020
Here’s what I’m thinking about, on my first day of virtual classes, seeing my students and yet not seeing them – or only seeing them, I suppose, when that word “seeing”...
Notes on four words in Twelfth Night
12 September 2017
[I wrote this a few weeks ago, and have been meaning to come back and edit it since then: to tamp down on some of the more effusive enthusiasm, to prune some of the more indulgent sentences....
15 March 2016
I taught Romeo and Juliet again this fall in ninth-grade English, after a bit of internal argument: should I choose a different play? Was I in danger of “phoning in” my...