There's this "how many of these hundred books have you read, and which of them did you love?" going around my friendslist. Looking at people's posts, I have to ask: have that many of you actually read Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Cymbeline, and Titus Andronicus?
(I have seen Cymbeline on stage.)
(I have seen Cymbeline on stage.)
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He was acerbic - possibly because he'd assigned them - but then, he was the one (I was taking an "advanced Shakespeare" class at the time) who said someday he really, really wanted to offer a class called "Shakespeare's Turkeys." He said it could start with Two Gentlemen of Verona and go on from there. I suspect Titus Andronicus may have been on that list.
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Alas, to have a lantern icon. Or an owl icon. Or pretty much anything relevant.
Isn't he fab? I took "Out and About" with him (i.e., "Fags and Dykes") which showed a depressing taste in gay male literature but was a great class, and then as well as the Shakespeare, I got him to be one of my thesis advisors.
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"You have undone our mother!"
"Villain, I have done thy mother."
(The context being that, well, the Empress has just delivered a son who is black, the second speaker being Aaron the Moor, the only black character around. . . )
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I suspect if I had done Shakespeare/revenge tragedy with my ex-Snoopervisor, Titus would have made the reading list as an example of just how insane revenge tragedy can get when it's allowed to. Right up there with 'The Revenger's Tragedy'.
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'Cause that was just frickin' crazy awesome.
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It's set in a post-holocaust Liverpool.
Have I convinced you yet that you MUST track a DVD of this down and watch it?
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Post-holocaust Liverpool sounds like an intriguing concept, though. I will consider it!
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/me flees to DVD store
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I've always been rather partial to Spurio's "Duke, thou didst do me wrong..." speech.
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I have, however, seen just about every Shakespeare play on stage, most of them several times.
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I was an English major and went on to get a graduate degree, so none of this is very surprising. The two I have reread for pleasure rather than to study for comps are, also unsurprisingly, "The Rape of the Lock" and Cymbeline.
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As another commenter pointed out, the first two are not the best of Shakespeare's works, but I figure even he is allowed some clunkers.
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