“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I’ve been reading the play again. And the Mabinogion is waiting. Is Branwen ferch Llŷr Cordelia? Mmmmn. We’ll find out :o) “Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what’s cast away. […]
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“I’ll speak a prophecy ere I go: When priests are more in word than matter; When brewers mar their malt with water; When nobles are their tailors’ tutors; No heretics burn’d, but wenches’ suitors; When every case in law is right; No squire in debt, nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in […]
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Anne Boleyn “I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels.” Or Nan Bullen as the common folk called her. As with Katherine, her story is too well-known to repeat. In the play, Anne is the enchantress. The bad woman. Elena of Moldavia/Elena Voloshank Elena apparently married Ivan the […]
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Oh, yes. I was here…with Shakespeare and Henry VIII and the women. We are back with the four!! Katherine of Aragon “Sir, I desire you do me right and justice; And to bestow your pity on me: for I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, Born out of your dominions; having […]
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I keep writing myself in knots trying to explain all this! Others can do it much better. So – the fourth of the Shakespeare Paper Quadruplets is… Ivan IV Vasilyevich/Ivan Grozny/Ivan the Terrible. The first Tsar of all of Russia. An old man, broken with the storms of state Is come to lay his […]
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Urmmmm! Not enough info yet and a subject I’m not ready to get into. Henry VIII/Henry Tudor Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. The Six Wives! But for now, the most important are the first two. Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Katherine the good, loyal wife. Anne, the enchantress. Everything hangs on Henry’s actions […]
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The line above is from Henry VIII by Shakespeare. It seems that this play is little performed and little known. Maybe because it started in tragedy…the burning down of the Globe Theatre in c.1613 as the show was on. Rather careless, methinks. I’d originally thought the cast and crew would be the same but they […]
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Yes, I’ve gone back to the Bard. Henry VIII is a play that I hardly know. Although I do know the history. From day dot we are force fed the Tudors here! This whole play/reconstruction/hidden stuff has freaked me out. Aaaaaargh. It’s very different (but ultimately linked) to the other plays presented here. To begin, […]
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SparkNotes Character Analysis of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus: Lavinia – The only daughter of Titus Andronicus, she spurns Saturninus’s offer to make her his empress because she is in love with Bassianus. She is brutally raped and disfigured by Chiron and Demetrius in the forest during the hunt. Thereafter, she is a mute and horrifying […]
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Summary of Titus Andronicus from Wikiwhatever (Told you it was bloody!): The play begins shortly after the death of the Roman emperor, with his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, squabbling over who will succeed him. Their conflict seems set to boil over into violence until a tribune, Marcus Andronicus, announces that the people’s choice for the new […]
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I really. truly struggle with this Shakespeare play. It breaks my heart :o( It is the bloodiest of all. A True Tragedy with every gory detail laid bare. And it is very rarely performed! You know the cast and crew by now. I will get to the bloody details soon. “Why makes […]
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I’ve had the strangest feeling today….of being trapped in Elsinore Castle. Image above. I didn’t know it was a bloody Star Fort!!! Rightio – back with the Prince of Denmark. “That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:” […]
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