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Comment on pardon the dust by william s.

william s. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:48:08 +0000

Hi there,

I finally put up my reading of the sonnets.

you'll find them at

http://sonnet.iloveshakespeare.com

i'd love you to have a listen and let me know what you think.

iloveshakespeare@mac.com

thanks,
Will

Comment on LinkedIn by Rachel Lee Cherry

Rachel Lee Cherry — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:15:15 +0000

~7 years is just a blip in some measures of time! :)

Comment on LinkedIn by Omar Ha-Redeye

Omar Ha-Redeye — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:57:40 +0000

The upside is that you connected with me, after… what is it… maybe 7+ years.

Comment on little luxuries by Rachel Lee Cherry

Rachel Lee Cherry — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:42:28 +0000

The Mentalist! I wanted to watch that when it came out, but never caught the schedule, so I still haven't seen it. Lie To Me, also, if it hasn't been cancelled yet.

LOVE Sealab. I have the first two seasons on DVD. Thanks for the reminders!

Comment on little luxuries by Alix R

Alix R — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:55:26 +0000

I'm an NCIS person, mainly because Abbie rocks. There's also Life and The Mentalist for more crime drama. Other than that? They canceled Pushing Daisies, and I haven't been talking to my TV much since. I'd say Battlsetar Galactica, but it's a) soul crushing, and b) about to end.

Ninja Warrior, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers and SeaLab are always good choices.

Comment on Titus at last by rachel

rachel — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:02:08 +0000

That’s a great quote from Taymor. It really sums up the play, I think. And your explanation makes the opening scene make sense in the larger context of the play — I wish I’d known that before seeing the film. I had no idea who Young Lucius was or why he was there until he joined the action by speaking a line.

Comment on Titus at last by Kenneth W. Davis

Kenneth W. Davis — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:57:39 +0000

I find Titus Andronicus one of the least effective of Shakespeare’s plays; for me, it lacks the “arc” of story, the sense of beginning, middle, and end that his greatest plays have. This lack is caused, in part, by the absence of any character who experiences learning or growth.

But I like Julie Taymor’s film Titus, in part because of the satisfying way in which she solves the story problem. Because no character learns or grows, she realizes that the learning or growth instead has to be in us, the audience. So she gives us a surrogate: the boy.

At the beginning, he, like us, is immersed in mindless violence. So that he (and we) can excape that immersion, he is thrust into the horror of Titus Andronicus, becoming the minor character Young Lucius. He observes, learns, grows, and at the end, in his “adoption” and nurturing of Aaron’s son, becomes our only hope for a world beyond violence.

Taymor wrote, “This play is as much about how the audience experiences violence as entertainment as it is about the tragedy of the endless cycle of violence itself.”

Thanks for the chance to remind myself of the film. Now I want to see it again.

Comment on 400-year-old plays: now in podcast! by Seanjay

Seanjay — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:59:45 +0000

Thanks for the mention! We started small, but we’re getting bigger. Romeo & Juliet is sort of our “first try” – full of errors & amateurs. Midsummer, coming in July, will be much better. Promise!

Comment on Titus Nevermindus by HGC

HGC — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:38:11 +0000

Read the play. It has been many years since I have, but I did. Retrospect is murky, but recollection of trust in the sagacity of the professor is not. Nor, for that matter, is the element of the absurd. There is a fine and wavering line. You’ve inspired a re-read. Bother Bloom (though he may be right). Read before deciding whether you want to ….

Comment on bits and pieces by rachel

rachel — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:06:31 +0000

Mary, I saw the Ackroyd bio on the shelf but didn’t look further than the jacket. Wood’s bio isn’t particularly scholarly — nary a footnote to back up his assertions, but the PBS logo was on the front cover, so that must be enough, right? Schoenbaum’s is the best I’ve seen for documentation, but it can get profoundly boring in parts.