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Tag Archives: drama
Random Thoughts on FST’s “Antigone” (2010)
[Note: This is just one layman’s opinion based on my own experience and it should be read in the context of my immense respect for people who put themselves out there as playwrights and performers!] I enjoyed the Fairbanks Shakespeare … Continue reading
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Reading Log: Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Thanks to the one serious flaw in the 3-volume set of Grene and Lattimore’s Greek Tragedies—they have Oedipus the King and Antigone in the first volume, but not Oedipus at Colonus– I read the “Oedipus Cycle” out of chronological order. … Continue reading
Reading Log: Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is a compelling play. Reading it again as an adult I’m struck by themes (and questions) that I never noted before… or that were given to me by a teacher and promptly forgotten. For instance, why does Antigone go … Continue reading
Reading Log: Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (aka Oedipus Rex) is second only to Hamlet in my personal canon of touchstone plays, works that are so "big"– of such archetypal and architectonic importance to my aesthetic apparatus– that it’s hard to write about … Continue reading
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Wisdom from Oedipus the King
Bits of wisdom– or at least food for thought– from Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Priest for I have seen that for the skilled of practice the outcome of their counsels live the most. Priest Neither tower nor ship is anything … Continue reading
Reading Log: Hippolytus (Euripides)
[CC Licensed image by Sebastià Giralt] Hippolytus (another work I’d, to my shame, not read before now) is a strange play, at once obviously overt in its "lessons" and quite beautiful. And there are many lessons: worship as many gods … Continue reading
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Reading Log: Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
[CC licensed image by Camus Live Art] Tough time of the year to find time to write, so my notes are even less cohesive than usual… Prometheus Bound is one of many Ancient Greek plays I should have read long … Continue reading
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Tagged 101010 challenge, aeschylus, drama, prometheus, prometheus bound, reading
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Reading Log: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
[CC licensed photo by Ell Brown] Writing anything about Hamlet is to be a decided amateur, a devoted duffer. The hopelessly amateur golfer likely loves the game, knows the course(s) he plays inside and out, immerses herself in the world … Continue reading
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Tagged 101010 challenge, drama, hamlet, reading log, william shakespeare
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Searching for Shakespeare
There are few authors you can readily find in as many different editions as you can Shakespeare. As the first entry in the Shakespeare category of my 101010 Challenge, I’ve been reading the Arden Hamlet (3rd Edition), which is certainly … Continue reading
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Tagged books, drama, hamlet, julius caesar, reading, william shakespeare
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Reading Log: “Alcestis” (Euripides)
[Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis] Alcestis tells the story of King Admetus who, thanks to Apollo (who worked for Admetus while in exile from Olympus), has been granted life beyond his time to die. In … Continue reading
from Galileo (Bertolt Brecht)
The Little Monk: There will be no meaning in their misery. Hunger will simply mean not having eaten, rather than being a test of strength. Hard work will simply be bending and lugging, and not be a virtue. Galileo: There … Continue reading
The Oedipus Cycle (Sophocles)
I revisited the Oedipus plays because I’d never read Oedipus at Colonus and the others were read first when I was too young and then as part of a University death-march through Ancient literature. I was surprised how powerful the … Continue reading