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Four Terrible New Year's Resolutions from "Love's Labor's Lost"
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Four Terrible New Year's Resolutions from "Love's Labor's Lost"

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Ben Lauer
Happy New Year! We picked out four awful ideas for New Year's resolutions from Shakespeare's "Love's Labor's Lost" and added some hints for improvements.
Seven quotes (and a song) from Shakespeare for New Year’s
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Seven quotes (and a song) from Shakespeare for New Year’s

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Ben Lauer
A bit of Shakespeare to help you reflect on the past year, plan for the next, or just impress your friends or family with a well-placed quote in a New Year’s Eve toast.
Shakespeare New Year's resolutions for 2017
Shakespeare New Year's resolutions
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Shakespeare New Year's resolutions for 2017

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If Shakespeare characters were making New Year’s resolutions, what would (or should) they be? Here are a few of our favorite responses from Twitter. https://twitter.com/JoeDramaTurg/status/814157862897381380 What Shakespeare quote sums up your New Year’s resolution? https://twitter.com/DrRubidium/status/814186091599147009 We also asked if anyone…

Elizabethan Holidays: Christmas, New Year's Day... and Plough Monday?
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Elizabethan Holidays: Christmas, New Year's Day... and Plough Monday?

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Karen Lyon

The Twelve Days of Christmas, from December 25 to January 6, was the longest and most enthusiastically celebrated festival in the Elizabethan calendar. On Christmas Eve, people decorated with evergreens, ivy, and holly, burned a Yule log, sang carols, and…