tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post8134106640699981150..comments2023-05-15T08:51:12.031-04:00Comments on Love and Disdain: No causeDr. Kosharyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777054788430587906noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-56819138562591918032012-05-29T21:15:36.872-04:002012-05-29T21:15:36.872-04:00Favorite line from Antony and Cleopatra (out of co...Favorite line from Antony and Cleopatra (out of context, sure, but still a whopper): <br /><br />"I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:<br />Look, here I have you; thus I let you go."Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-41081756706993690392012-05-29T21:13:16.141-04:002012-05-29T21:13:16.141-04:00"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods -..."As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods -- they kill us for their sport." <br /><br />That's one of my favorite lines in Shakespeare, and it comes right out of Gloucester's mouth. When I encountered King Lear in my first Shakespeare class, I lost it several times. I'd never read anything like it. (I mean, I'd read some Shakespeare, but basically just the ol' standbys from high school.) I saw the Nunn version when it first came out and just loved it. McKellen is more than amazing in that role. He's like a god. <br /><br />When times are hard, some people turn to religion. I turn to Shakespeare. There's nothing like reading Hamlet when your dad has just died. I actually understood Hamlet's angst for the first time when I was traveling home from my father's funeral and reading Hamlet on the plane back to California. The experience was horrible and wonderful -- the kind of experience that Aristotle promises us in The Poetics. Catharsis? Check. Pity and fear? Check, check. <br /><br />Recently, in my own individual sorrows, I've turned to Antony and Cleopatra. Just sections of it, as my list of things to do only seems to multiply these days. Unlike Romeo and Juliet, A&C is a mature love tragedy, and boy, it's a whopper. They kill themselves, though. So maybe don't read to the end if you decide to pick it up. ;)<br /><br />And last but not least -- it's none of my business, but if you want to talk about it, feel free to write me. At any rate -- I'm really sorry.Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-68406857055806071092012-05-29T19:06:30.266-04:002012-05-29T19:06:30.266-04:00Aw, man, Lear always does that to me --- I teared ...Aw, man, Lear always does that to me --- I teared up every time we discussed it in my Shakespeare class, even when I went and re-read it on my own one summer ---- and I was watching some documentary about acting in general and they played John Gielgud reading a scene with, I think, his daughter (only the scene was filmed stand alone, as he was too old by this point to do a production) and I was just *weeping* for hours afterward. Whoof indeed.<br /><br />For some reason I tend to put in _The English Patient_ when I need an excuse for a good cry.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-5202854204667074512012-05-29T18:31:05.288-04:002012-05-29T18:31:05.288-04:00Aww, pal. I'm sorry. Be good to yourself, and ...Aww, pal. I'm sorry. Be good to yourself, and then back in the saddle you go!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-86751582009407864902012-05-29T15:08:46.350-04:002012-05-29T15:08:46.350-04:00I just requested it. Thanks for the recommendatio...I just requested it. Thanks for the recommendation. I need me some distracting tragedy, though for no reason so good as yours...Renaissance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243095907452011303noreply@blogger.com