The antidote to a cautionary remark about the "moral" of The Old Man and the Sea; one that saddened and flummoxed a thirteen-year-old: "Sometimes one can go too far to follow one's dream."
Yes and to write and to talk and to live around people who appreciate letters and arts and ideas. I'm surrounded by morons in pricy cars and pinched faces.
I was waiting at the Los Angeles airport when I wrote that quickly — to clarify, an object is often a type of receipt that exposes a lie. And it’s the ring in Merchant not the chests as it is in All’s Well and Taming of the Shrew, the Handkerchief in Othello — material items tend to be what trips up devious plans and lies.
Hooray for your Christmas Santa. This is an awesome book. I first heard of it in one of many notes within English Teacher Weekly this year. And that got me on a Judi Dench tangent, watching her recent videos about this. There is also a Romeo & Juliet play book at Royal Shakespeare with comments from her great Juliet performance. Of course I had to re-watch Best Exotic Marigold Hotel after Maggie Smith’s passing, but Dench’s performance there was so good. Finally, I discovered Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein, famous teacher of the stage. That surely opens up the teaching of Shakespeare to everyone. Lucky you to live in London, a true theatre town. All this from discovering her recent book . . .
The antidote to a cautionary remark about the "moral" of The Old Man and the Sea; one that saddened and flummoxed a thirteen-year-old: "Sometimes one can go too far to follow one's dream."
Such a signal thought;
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?”
I wish I lived in London
to see the Globe?
Yes and to write and to talk and to live around people who appreciate letters and arts and ideas. I'm surrounded by morons in pricy cars and pinched faces.
ah well yes it can be good for that but the internet is also great :)
And to smoke the smoothest cigarettes and to drink the sweetest ales
I love Shakespeare for many reasons, but one of them is it’s often about the receipts!
The rings in All’s Well, the chests in Merchant, and others — the material objects that come back to reveal the truth.
Wdym?
I was waiting at the Los Angeles airport when I wrote that quickly — to clarify, an object is often a type of receipt that exposes a lie. And it’s the ring in Merchant not the chests as it is in All’s Well and Taming of the Shrew, the Handkerchief in Othello — material items tend to be what trips up devious plans and lies.
Also I think that is true in real life. More often than not it’s the material trail that holds the liar and the cheat responsible.
Hooray for your Christmas Santa. This is an awesome book. I first heard of it in one of many notes within English Teacher Weekly this year. And that got me on a Judi Dench tangent, watching her recent videos about this. There is also a Romeo & Juliet play book at Royal Shakespeare with comments from her great Juliet performance. Of course I had to re-watch Best Exotic Marigold Hotel after Maggie Smith’s passing, but Dench’s performance there was so good. Finally, I discovered Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein, famous teacher of the stage. That surely opens up the teaching of Shakespeare to everyone. Lucky you to live in London, a true theatre town. All this from discovering her recent book . . .