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Gayle's Bard Blog: An Inconvenient Woman, Part 1
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Saturday, December 17, 2011. An Inconvenient Woman, Part 1. Yes, the Bard Blog is back! For how long, I can't be sure.but suffice it to say I am determined to finish posting my authorship series, written all those months ago, and yes- I dare hope- complete. That the theater led to a morally dangerous mixing up of classes and genders—i.e., that it violated boundaries thought to be vital to social order. But back to Delia Bacon. What the hell. I’m...I’...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: O Happy Dagger! (Part 2)
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Today, a few thoughts on ballet. As you probably know, Romeo and Juliet. Although it was developed centuries ago, ballet didn't really come into its own until the early twentieth century- that is, when it intersected with Modernism. Ballet is a quintessentially formalist art, which is why the Soviets had such an ambivalent relationship to it. What's wrong with formalism? Demands death- it's nothing without it. Without all...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Mad Man
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Monday, November 9, 2009. A few thoughts on Tybalt, who is, in the words of my teenage self, "a major buzzkill" in this play. You really can't take this guy anywhere. Right after Romeo's metaphor-fest in praise of Juliet's luminous pulchritude, crazy cousin Tybalt decides that a formal ball is the perfect setting for a bloodbath:. This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave. To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Academics, Oxfordians, and Agnostics
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Sunday, January 15, 2012. Academics, Oxfordians, and Agnostics. This is my last completed authorship post- I left off here over a year ago. After this, I hope to go back to. Othello , and finish up the authorship series at some later date. There's obviously a lot more to be said about de Vere and the Oxfordian phenomenon than I was able to do here.but this is it for now. Personally, I chalk it up to the cultural one-two punch of Hollywood and romance nove...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Rage, Revenge, Ressentiment
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Rage, Revenge, Ressentiment. Near the end of the movie Tombstone-. Which is still one of my all-time favorite Westerns- Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp are talking about the villain, Johnny Ringo:. Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, doc? What makes him do the things he does? A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it. Morally,...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Don't Fear the Reaper
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Tuesday, December 1, 2009. Don't Fear the Reaper. Romeo and Juliet,. We can be like they are,. Come on baby,. Don't fear the Reaper. If you're anywhere near my age, you remember that Blue Oyster Cult song pretty well. I'm reminding you of this timeless FM hit in order to prove that. Ominous guitar riffs, please). Is the most dangerous work of literature ever written! Nevertheless, you can see the vestiges of this idea in Romeo's worry that Juliet has made...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: The Dating Game
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Wednesday, February 10, 2010. In mythic terms, three is the most powerful of all numbers. Fairytales are full of threes- Cinderella was the third sister, there were three bears, three little pigs, three blind mice. Events happen in threes- Rumplestiltskin gives the queen three days to guess his name, Christ rises on the third day, three strikes and you're out. Usually, threes are auspicious. Third time's a charm. I love that part. Well, Siegfried can't le...
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Suspicious Minds
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Monday, December 19, 2011. Othello , a play which, not surprisingly, is seldom if ever mentioned by the authorship folks. I will speculate on why that is.later. Still, I promised to make this a complete narrative arc, and so I shall. 8212;interestingly, and perhaps ironically, his autobiography was (according to people who knew him well) as much an imaginative work of fiction as a factual narrative. But the subtitle was more telling: From My Autobiography.
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Gayle's Bard Blog: Al Pacino's Sad-Dad Eyes
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Reading Shakespeare's plays so you don't have to. Saturday, April 24, 2010. Al Pacino's Sad-Dad Eyes. The 2004 film of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by Michael Radford, was better than I expected. I mean, Al Pacino as Shylock. I still shudder whenever I think of the embarrassment that was Looking for Richard,. You don't offer friendship.you don't even think to call me godfather, and yet you ask my help.". Who cares about poetry? Not this play. He's definitely got that Aschenbach thing down. Ag...When ...
