STAR TREK versus Macbeth : Khaaaaaaaaaan

Sigh! Patrick Stewart or William Shitner? ANOTHER IN YOUR FACESIES 2ferV ibe? P.S. Guess who is looking forward to TOMORROW & JL? D’y’all understand yet? Just HOW BORED I AM with the earwigs bs? Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! Go AWAY, Freddie, Puhlease, I’ve lost too much already!

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The End of Bonnie & Clyde

America’s Most Wanted Criminals! Thieves/Liars/Killers. THE PERFECT Partners in Crime !?! MuddBosss?

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A Return to CAT-Fishing

It was only recently that I learned just how much John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) knew about/respected Shakespeare. I’ve ALWAYS liked him since I was a teenager but never quite understood why. After the Sex Pistols, he re-invented himself as PIL. Public Image Limited. OMG. He KNOWS! He KNOWS that PUBLIC IMAGE is the “be […]

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The LAST STRAW!

I give up! No point. Pointless. Nil points. This poor but silently famous writer has been out yt’ed. BASTARDS!

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THE SICK TRUTH OF OLD MENTAL ASYLUMS

I was watching this and the name Nellie Bly kept bugging me. Then I had an AHA! moment. Of course. Tut! By The Pricking of my Thumbs : Agatha Christie. There’s a character called Nellie Bligh. This Nellie in the video below was either Very Brave or Extremely Crazy (?!)

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Divine Comedy

Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again! There is something (and nothing) in my life that I have never spoken of to a living soul. NEVER. NO ONE! Because I feel so much like Cordelia. The eternal outcast who speaks at the wrong time and says nothing at the wrong time …..King Lear is telling his […]

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The Burden of Itys

Reading this poem by Oscar Wilde, I had the feeling that it seemed somewhat familiar. So I looked up Itys and family and AHA! It lead me right back to my least favourite but most often consulted (for research) play by Shakespeare. Back on the same story roundabout, eh? Philomela A small sample from Wilde’s […]

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COMIC RELIEF

I am NOT and NEVER will be any THING’S Comic Relief. LOL at ME all you want. Diss…respect…miss…turb…troy (?)…comboblulate…. I am Lauren and her English Teacher. BOTH, together. At the same time. Read between the lines of Shakespeare and you will find a very articulate Scottish/Gobby /STFU Londoner with a HUGE attitude problem that WILL […]

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Sweeney Todd

Sometimes. OK. Quite often. I truly despair of where my brain takes me. This morning it was to Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber. A quick wiki search brought up the fact that this story was first published in the Penney Dreadfuls that I’d talked of recently. I had no idea about that fact!!!! I was […]

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