{"id":95,"date":"2010-09-16T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:03:18","slug":"analects-of-the-core-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/16\/analects-of-the-core-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Shakespeare on being true to oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"461\" width=\"460\" alt=\"The Bard\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/william-shakespeare-portrait.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/william-shakespeare-portrait.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/william-shakespeare-portrait-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/william-shakespeare-portrait-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This above all, to thine own self be true,<br \/>\nAnd it must follow, as the night the day,<br \/>\nThou canst not then be false to any man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Polonius, chief counselor to the king, in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hamlet-New-Folger-Library-Shakespeare\/dp\/074347712X\">Hamlet<\/a> <\/em>by <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.palomar.edu\/\">William Shakespeare<\/a><em>, <\/em>Act 1 Scene. NB: In view of the surging enthusiasm for the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> series, we would be remiss not to point out actor David Tennant&#8217;s critically-hailed portrayal of the titular gloomy Danish prince for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/5404304\/Doctor-Whos-David-Tennant-to-reprise-Hamlet-role-for-BBC-television.html\">BBC television.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/entertainment\/arts\/16738\/039sci-fi-hamlet039-slays-critics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"288\" width=\"460\" alt=\"Tenant as Hamlet\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/hamlet_1247654c.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/hamlet_1247654c.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/hamlet_1247654c-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. &#8211; Polonius, chief counselor to the king, in Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene. NB: In view of the surging enthusiasm for the Doctor Who series, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}