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Shakespeare, word & action, take 2
Points to Saccio, he made me laugh during the lecture on As You Like It. After quoting "Sweet Lovers Love Spring" (which of course put the Barenaked Ladies version earworming again), he said that it was about "having sex before we're old and ugly and impotent and dead." The delivery was just *perfect* and I had to laugh.
Also some food for thought in this lecture. Aside from explaining what "to give a maid a green gown" meant (Okay, I'm slow, I didn't get it on my own!) he went into a very interesting digression into the importance of fairy tales to Shakespeare. Not for the obvious ones like Midsummer & MacBeth, but for quite a few other plays that I hadn't cottoned onto. As You Like It, with the three sons, only one of which is truely noble in character, the one who slays the dragon in the guise of Charles the Wrestler. Lear as a perverse Cinderella - Cordelia loses her father('s love) and her two horrible sisters take advantage of all. There were others, but those are the ones that stick. Hmmmm.
I wonder if I can go somewhere with the notion of As You Like It and Young Goodman Brown as opposites of each other - in one, you go to the woods to become finer; in the other, the woods creep with evil. I'll let that one marinate in the back of my head. There's space now that a Batman pumpkin I've seen (the animated Batman, no less) has made the next installment of My Life Among the Apes start to gel. That's going to be an actual story with an actual plot, and will be needing beta readers in a bit. (Set in the animated Justice League universe, heavy on J'onn and Batman, not slash, anyone interested in being beta in a week or two?)
In the rest of life, I'm feeling blown off by my doctor, who said "migraine for sure" but had no advice on how to isolate food problems, if that's the problem, or how it might tie into my usual fall allergy, or what. All he really did was try to fob me off on a gyno and tell me that my health care plan is driving away doctors, in a tone of voice that suggested he was next.
And in keeping with my new budget plan for buying books (attempting to give myself a certain budget rather than going for months and then having booksplosions), I've been to B&N where I picked up their mini Oliver Twist and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro. The Shapiro book is so new the ink is practically wet; with the 20% discount I got both the bitty Dickens and the full-sized Shakes for slightly less than the full price of the Shakes alone.
Also some food for thought in this lecture. Aside from explaining what "to give a maid a green gown" meant (Okay, I'm slow, I didn't get it on my own!) he went into a very interesting digression into the importance of fairy tales to Shakespeare. Not for the obvious ones like Midsummer & MacBeth, but for quite a few other plays that I hadn't cottoned onto. As You Like It, with the three sons, only one of which is truely noble in character, the one who slays the dragon in the guise of Charles the Wrestler. Lear as a perverse Cinderella - Cordelia loses her father('s love) and her two horrible sisters take advantage of all. There were others, but those are the ones that stick. Hmmmm.
I wonder if I can go somewhere with the notion of As You Like It and Young Goodman Brown as opposites of each other - in one, you go to the woods to become finer; in the other, the woods creep with evil. I'll let that one marinate in the back of my head. There's space now that a Batman pumpkin I've seen (the animated Batman, no less) has made the next installment of My Life Among the Apes start to gel. That's going to be an actual story with an actual plot, and will be needing beta readers in a bit. (Set in the animated Justice League universe, heavy on J'onn and Batman, not slash, anyone interested in being beta in a week or two?)
In the rest of life, I'm feeling blown off by my doctor, who said "migraine for sure" but had no advice on how to isolate food problems, if that's the problem, or how it might tie into my usual fall allergy, or what. All he really did was try to fob me off on a gyno and tell me that my health care plan is driving away doctors, in a tone of voice that suggested he was next.
And in keeping with my new budget plan for buying books (attempting to give myself a certain budget rather than going for months and then having booksplosions), I've been to B&N where I picked up their mini Oliver Twist and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro. The Shapiro book is so new the ink is practically wet; with the 20% discount I got both the bitty Dickens and the full-sized Shakes for slightly less than the full price of the Shakes alone.