Thanks for 640 new readers from Russia
Usually when summer begins, views to my blog fall off as students and instructors take a break at the end of the spring term. But unexpectedly, in a 12-hour period this past day, I had 640 views of one of my blog posts from October of 2019 called " Gertrude as Recipient and Source of Gifts ." This was part 9 in a multi-part series on "Labors of Gratitude and Regret in Hamlet exploring how interactions between characters either offered (non-material) gifts that might inspire them to change, or how interactions sometimes moved characters to regret and change. (If you have not yet read that post, please feel free to visit the blog and give it a read at this link: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/10/gertrude-as-recipient-giver-of-gifts.html Here is a screen shot of the increased views over the last 24 hours associated with that post: When there is a surge in views like that, it might be caused by an instructor who teaches multiple sections of a class whose s...