http://punchdrunksoul.com/tag/find-your-purpose/Instagram.com/punchdrunksoul “Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly things made eaven attone together.” – 5.4 As a subject for an essay I would prefer one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” such as All’s Well That Ends Well, or Measure for Measure, which in performance simply do not satisfy our sense of propriety; but for an afternoon’s […]
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As You Like It.
06-Sep-11Ah, the language, the language.
05-Sep-11Kānker From As You Like It: “Like an ill roasted Egge, all on one side.” Its actual application was not exciting in context, but it can be used most judiciously in life, for all forms of partiality and ill-development. I have a facsimile edition at the cabin of the First Folio, the spellings of which are […]
Well, this is the Forest of Arden.
04-Sep-11At the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival this weekend, where I was treated to the pleasures of the usual players, including David Aston-Reese’s melancholy Jaques, immersed in nature, “weeping and commenting upon the sobbing deer.” I intend to enlarge on this theme later. After watching these shows, I swear, I am so immersed in the language that […]