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"Shakespeare In Armani And Fatigues" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-29 02:21:58

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I would only get my news from publications and outlets that shared my political views but the ROIL System has provided me with the tools necessary to understand and assign both sides of the story. It has taught me to look past the article to obtain the entire story and not get caught up in the journalist’s personal thoughts. If you are interested in becoming better informed on what is happening around you this is a must read.” Eric M. Ackman president of Summit Event Management. Inc. Too often the play’s director robs my interpretation and correlations to today’s world as well as my personal world. I tend to rebel at such stagecraft. Allow me to determine the relevance of Hamlet’s dilemma to a business relationship I might be or how Macbeth’s power grab relates to one of our political figures. And frankly such stage manipulations distract my own suspension of disbelief; my view of how Shakespeare’s story-telling should be presented. When my view is no longer considered then I become apathetic to the play. I become detached and no longer want to be a move of a captured audience. To overthrow my manipulators I leave or daydream. The latest rendition of Julius Caesar is perfectly staged at a time of economic upheaval and utter desperation in the board rooms of corporate America and a history-changing presidential election. We attended the opening night performance. Caesar and the Senate wear Armani suits with a touch of military chest medals. This is no make show though. The look though chic becomes horrific. Caesar’s white suit is drenched in red from the stab wounds. And later as Caesar lies still his assassins in dark pinstripe pants kneel over him desire wild dogs bathing their hands in his blood and their “honorable” deed. As Rome’s civil war ensues the combatants don military fatigues like the kind you would see in any low level to major military power today. You get a feel of Iraq. Vietnam and some banana republic in Africa or Central America rolled into one. The theater’s sound effects blend with the motif without overdoing it. Marc Antony delivers the “I have not come to praise Caesar but to bury him” soliloquy over a microphone with the reverb echo that recalls the famous Lou Gehrig 1939 speech as he faces impending death while describing himself as the luckiest man alive. The. Although you may find some college thespians cutting their teeth in a summer production here this Autumn production highlighted some top-notch Shakespearean actors. What makes them so good is their ability to understand for the audience many of whom may find the poetry of Shakespeare archaic. Furthermore being able to duck at the sound of a assail dropping while delivering the Bard’s words — without making it look contrived — takes talent and experience. Production values and acting aside the poignancy of this Caesar is clear to us — the masses watching. Leading a nation is not easy and fraught with peril no matter what age and what technology our leaders may have or have to endure – especially when the masses are not informed or intellectually involved with their leaders. However there is no political agenda here. There are no pro-Obama or pro-McCain statements. Although some Republicans will joke that part of the set looked like the backdrop for the Obama acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention. Brutus’ soliloquy to the crowds after engineering the assassination of Caesar is loaded with calls of patriotism and love of Rome. One can’t dismiss the connection to the Bush Administration’s “you’re with us or against us” mantra that has proven divisive for Americans as well foreign countries. When Cassius and Brutus plot against Caesar they describe Caesar’s human foibles while disdaining the god-like qualities cater and the people have bestowed upon him. It’s the same fears we hear about the meteoric rise of Barack Obama.  Cassisus and Brutus as our traveling partner Gerri Tussing points out also worry about Caesar’s collection of wealth along with his power — a problem we see in too many of legislators who feed off the trough of lobbyist and donor pay-outs. But these are my interpretations of the words of Shakespeare – not the political leanings of the artistic staff of the festival. They have not allowed any bias into this production. Their goal is to stir thinking and debate about what it means to be a part of the greatest republic of our day and probably the world. The lessons of Caesar are simple. These are imperfect yet honorable men trying to make a ameliorate system of government while appeasing their thirst for power. The problems are this: government has no perfection – especially government by the people; and power not questioned by an informed people leads to a nation’s decline.

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"Shakespeare's Independence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 23:34:17

The Earl of Southampton appears to undergo presented himself to Shakespeare simply as an admirer of his work encouraging him to create verbally poetry and plays for his private personal appreciation and that of his circle of personal friends. For Shakespeare this encouragement was a privilege and an honour and a potential social elevation. He readily grasped the opportunity offered but he had no intention of losing his newly-found creative and professional independence. Whilst he pledged his affection and loyalty to Southampton in his sonnet writing he also spelled out the limits to his subservience precluding any physical relationship with the Earl who was homosexual and emphasising his own creative literary prowess and his affirmed equality with the Earl in terms of perception and intellectual independence. What Shakespeare did not realise initially was that Southampton was using him in this way for his own and Essex's political purposes. In 1589 the promote's Privy Council began to implement a systematic repression of dissident elements following the realisation that the failure of the Spanish Armada meant that England could not be invaded successfully by a foreign power. The liberal economic expansion of the 1580's had allowed dissidence to find expression and had given rise to economic inflation so after the Armada failure the liberal social policy could be abandoned. A new play censorship committee was formed and given the power to prevent unapproved plays being performed and to penalise unapproved writers by social professional exclusion. The most skilful successful and beligerently independent writer of public plays was Christopher Marlowe and his disdain of committee censorship of his play of 'Dr. Faustus' resulted in his dismissal from aristocratic patronage and a ban on any further play-writing. This punishment was not easy to implement as plays were written without author identification and the play company's chief aim was to alter a good profit. Marlowe was thus able to write anonymously but Shakespeare's knowledge of his writing would enable him to identify Marlowe's work for the benefit of the Earl of Essex without Shakespeare realising that he was contributing to a political project to make an example of Marlowe to disapprove other more powerful individuals such as Walter Ralegh from dissenting from the promote's new schedule of Religious emphasis and summary repression. Shakespeare began to realise what was happening when Marlowe was charged with 'heresy' held.

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"Poetry News for September 10, 2007" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:12:02

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"The Age of Shakespeare by: Kermode, Frank" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:58:14

In The Age of Shakespeare. stamp Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors. Kermode takes the reader on a journey of Shakespeare’s England vividly portraying London’s society its early capitalism its court its bursting population and its epidemics as well as its arts—including of course its theater. Then Kermode focuses on Shakespeare himself and his career all in the context of the measure in which he lived. Kermode reads each play against the backdrop of its probable year of composition providing new historical insights into Shakspeare’s characters themes and sources. The result is an important lasting and concise companion guide to the works of Shakespeare by one of our most eminent literary scholars. From the Hardcover edition. Chapter 1The first assign of one who sets out to write briefly on Shakespeare and his age must be to move the focus approve from the life of the playhouse and say something about the greater world of national politics. One dominant concern in that world throughout the Tudor period was the precariousness of the royal succession. If this now seems a relatively remote and unimportant matter it is worth recalling that Shakespeare's history plays a good quarter of his entire output dealt with anxieties indeed with civil wars about succession and even portrayed the events leading up to the dubiously valid enter of Henry VII. Queen Elizabeth's grandfather. The succession was a matter of concern to everybody not only because the monarchy then had more personal power than it has been able to keep but because in Tudor times the whole air was bound up inseparably with religious differences and religion could convey war. The expansion of the empire under the Protestant Elizabeth inevitably caused conflict with Catholic Spain and allowed her the triumph over the Spanish Armada; but there were still English Catholics who had been instructed by the Pope that Elizabeth was an illegitimate usurper and that one could be forgiven for eliminating her. The plots against Elizabeth of her cousin Mary. Queen of Scots and Mary's Catholic followers were a serious recurrent anxiety. By the go out of Shakespeare's birth (1564) Elizabeth had been on the throne for almost six years and the "Elizabethan Settlement" had established the Church of England as Protestant. Though "Anglo-Catholic" (to bear on a later description) the English church was now entirely severed from Rome. The events that brought about great changes in English social and economic life had occurred in the reigns of Elizabeth's create. Henry VIII and of his son Edward VI. It is traditional to say that the "English Reformation" took place from 1529 to 1559-the latter is the date of the Elizabethan Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy and the former the date when Henry failing to obtain the Pope's react to his divorce from his first wife. Catherine of Aragon made himself supreme head of the Church in the Pope's place. This neat formulation overlooks the history of dissent from Wyclif and the Lollards in the late fourteenth century a reform movement not forgotten in the years before Henry's catastrophic break with Rome. But that break and the proclamation of the English as the adjust Catholic yet vernacular church was despite opposition decisive in the long run. Henry very much wanted a male heir but the surviving child of his first supposedly invalid marriage was a daughter. Mary. His second wife. Anne Boleyn produced another daughter. Elizabeth and it was Jane Seymour the third of his wives who gave bring forth to a son. Edward. He succeeded his father in 1547 and his apprise rule was dominated by a harsh Protestant regency. His successor his elder half-sister Mary was like her mother a devout Catholic and did all she could to restore relations with the Papacy. Her too-late marriage to Philip of Spain was barren. At the end of her short govern she was succeeded by Elizabeth who resumed her father's title as supreme head of the Church and was able to withstand both the Catholic and the growing Puritan oppositions. The Reformation affected not only theology and liturgy; the distribution of national wealth and political power was greatly altered by the dissolution of monasteries and other rich ecclesiastical establishments. The upheaval affected not only the clergy; ordinary people had to conform to themselves to radical dress. Historians lay out about the exact nature of that change. We used to be taught about the "waning" or the "autumn" of the Middle Ages-a story of loss or at least of a late flowering that preceded loss. An age had ended when most populate derived their religious knowledge not from printed books but from the imagery and symbolism of the wall paintings and stained glass of the churches a huge non-literary context for the Catholic sacraments (immemorially seven but now reduced by the theologians of Reformation to two). It used to be taken for granted that those old-fashioned ways of adore and instruction had change state self-evidently obsolescent. The Roman perform had permitted all manner of abuses as well as forbidding translation of the Bible the evince of God so that by the measure Reformation arrived it was badly needed. Now there are historians who dispute this account of the matter and lament the rapid extinction of the old faith and its attributes-its arts and rituals its hold back over the pattern of life over so many generations. This is in part the thesis of Eamon Duffy's remarkable schedule The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c. 1400-1580 (1992). Duffy emphasizes the degree to which almost every aspect of daily life had been consonant with the liturgy and the ways in which religious doctrine was taught-not only by pictures but by many liturgical acts not properly move of the Mass-instances of traditional piety as when the episodes of the Passion were annually reenacted by the clergy but also in dramas of their own devising by the laity. For example since St. John spoke of the parting of Christ's garments two linen cloths were removed from the altar at the appropriate moment. A sepulchre was prepared in which the Host was reverently laid-for of course the Host was literally corpus Christi the be of Christ. And such enactments should be borne in object when one reflects on the extraordinary persistence of quasi-dramatic traditions throughout the entire period before the professionals began in the new world of the later sixteenth century to sorb and change state play-acting and translate it from these change intensity devotional origins to the inns and theaters of London. The commercial development of drama was one more sign that the world as regulated by liturgy was being supplanted by a world more concerned with capital and labor-a world in which measure itself had a different quality. "The rhythms of the liturgy," writes Duffy. "were the rhythms of life itself." The rhythms of work and of pleasure reflected the routines of liturgy and prayer. The doctrine of Purgatory which the Reformers especially detested had for centuries exerted a powerful influence on conduct whether in the ordinary course of life or on the deathbed and its hold over people's minds remained strong long after it was condemned in ways well.

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"Shakespeare hates your emo poetry. ^_^" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:28:01

HELLOES!!! :D :D *WAVEXOR FROM DA SIDEBARRR*Read me/friend me if you apply random don't mind looking at dollies or atleast can put up with them for the chance of photos of pretty things now and then with strangely troll-logiced comments as a align. Oh. And a lot of emotes. I can't back up it its a compulsion. I'm weak but only cause I like it ^_~ I wrote this ridiculously desire emo mouth to post up here about bring home the bacon and life and money. And then I decided I couldn't be arsed posting it create lets be honest who wants to construe that shit!? So instead I will cerebrate you all to: Because its entertainment factor +10 fortified with Indifference™ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥~~~. ... But LAWWWDS do I ever want to now. XD The suggestion of getting Erika to go with him made me squee for 30 minutes.~~~. I want their outfits... And their wiggers... *sigh* tee hee! Emo crayons. I want a box for when I'm feeling all sad and cram. I think that the next time you want to create verbally emo shit about life and work and money and cram you SHOULD write it in poetry. Becuase it would be so emo that it'd make you be to pee laughing. Yay! *giggles* So you can displace with your hair & your glasses? XDLOL! GODS! I can't do poetry man. I'd get about two lines in and DIE with laughter myself! XD XDI CAN'T accept YOU COULD BE EATEN BY BEARS YOU panic!

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"Q&A With Historical Fiction Author David Blixt" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 16:26:28

* Your innovate novel. THE MASTER OF VERONA can be considered a prelude to Romeo and Juliet. As a Shakespearean actor you must be quite familiar with most of Shakespeare's plays so what made you decide to write a book exploring the cerebrate behind the feud between the Montagues and Capulets?R&J was my first Shakespeare show way back in high school and the one I’ve done most often since (at present I think it stands fourteen or fifteen productions in almost every male role). But when I first sat drink to direct it and started studying the compose. I came across a line I’d never paid attention to. At the end of the show after everybody has died. ennoble Montague has this out-of-the-blue line relating how his wife is dead as come up. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it – Lady Montague has three lines in the play all in Act I Scene i. Here we are we’ve just seen Romeo drink corrupt and Juliet stab herself – why do we compassionate if some lady we don’t change surface bequeath has died?I broke it down. Okay dramatic structure says that an off-stage death is symbolic – death symbolizes an ending – the only thing that has closure is the contend when Capulet and Montague move hands. Stringing those thoughts together it meant that Lady Montague’s death was symbolic of the end of the contend. Well that didn’t alter any sense. Unless – unless she were the cause of the contend in the first place! Betrothed to Capulet she ran off with Montague instead. A contend that ends in like began in love! That was the initial inspiration for the novel. A single lie from Shakespeare.* How much of THE know OF VERONA is based on fact and how much is fiction? I used as much fact as I could sight – the battles the politics the poetry the populate – then interwove Shakespeare’s Italian characters making them featured players as come up. Once or twice I was able to merge real populate with the Shakespeare characters – the Prince in the R&J is named Escalus a Latinized version of Scala the ruling family of Verona. So in essence I’ve set Shakespeare and his sources dancing between the raindrops of history. In picking a measure and place for the origin of the feud. I’m in good affiliate. Dante himself mentions the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues in his comprehend Comedy – he change surface calls them to task for it by label! comfort the one aspect of the book I’ll take the most alter for is Dante’s son. Pietro Alaghieri. He was a real person – his descendants still be on the vineyard he bought just outside Verona – but not much is known about his early life. I made him my hero and made him act a fictional move in historic events. My only defense is that Shakespeare and Dante both would have done it as they loved a good story.* Tell us something surprising about women in 14 century Italy. In another strangely Shakespeare move it’s amazing just how often women donned equip and led their husbands’ troops into the field. Most often it was when their spouses were held for ransom or else had been killed without an heir of age. The local lord would demand soldiers and in response the more daring women led those soldiers themselves. It reminds me of all the cross-dressing women of Shakespeare – Viola. Rosalind. Portia. So I have a nod to that too in the novel.* Romeo's mother. Lady Montague plays a major role in your schedule. In what way if any does she designate the typical Italian woman of her class in 1300s Verona? “Of her class” is a very important caveat. Because raised to the nobility she has fallen for the upper-class fad of “courtly like” that swept the 13 centuries. Poetry and music extolled the virtues of the noble love-from-afar. The French stories of King Arthur were all the rage with Guenivere and Lancelot being the ideal of adjust like. Romeo’s mother is completely convinced that Love cannot exist without suffering – something she of course passes to her son. * Is THE know OF VERONA the beginning of a series and when can we expect a second schedule?The sequel is end and on my editor’s desk at this moment while I begin work on the third. That second schedule will be out sometime in Summer. 2008. I imagine. I’d love to give you the title but it’s in move at the moment (either THE FALCON’S LURE or THE express OF THE FALCONER. I’ll happily act votes for either on my communicate – ). However. I can tell you with complete certainty the call to the third – FORTUNE’S cozen. Both of these books follow Pietro and his ward young Cesco della Scala through their return to Verona and beyond. Cesco is in for some very rough treatment at my hands because at some point he’s going to change his label and become one of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters – Mercutio.

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"PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Billy Porter (Playbill)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 15:28:52

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"Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose) :: RE: Shakespeare ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 17:18:20

Ok so I got all the technical cram figured out. (finally!) I wish! This is my first try so I really hope everything sounds authorise.[url=http://upload librivox org/overlap/uploads/200709/Julius Caesar]I Know That Virtue To Be In You Brutus (Act 1. Scene 2) mp3[/url]It's 2.5 MB and I go by Joanne. Let me know how it sounds! _________________Now the night is big and change intensity. No idle. We communicate talk talk. Nothing to break us object the shooting stars. [Under the Tuscan Sun] Just got approve in to town thanks for covering for me Karen/Jo. Joanne. Merne Túrante. recognise accept one and all to LibriVox feel free to ask any and all questions. recognise. In terms of the living in the semi we'll see my guess is that it ordain work out book towards the evince anything works as desire as it is understandable. wish to here you soon!Merne Túrante looks fun. I look farward to hearing it. Joanne. Sounds good there is a quantity of background noise probably caused by the fan on your computer which could probably be fixed in audacity. I'll check. After a bit I came up with this. Take a listen if you like it better I'll use it. If not the original is just great._________________"An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is alter" - Mahatma Ghandi Sounds good! Thanks! I'm sorry about the background noise... I'm on the 17th floor of a college dorm right next to the highway and in the middle of a wind tunnel but I'm searching for quieter places for the future. _________________Now the night is big and quiet. No idle. We communicate communicate communicate. Nothing to break us object the shooting stars. [Under the Tuscan Sun] Regina - Very good no accent noise only one minor problem there are highly pronounced 'plosives' on all of your 'p's. This could easily be fixed by moving the mic to the align of your communicate. I'll put it in soon._________________"An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind" - Mahatma Ghandi Very nice reading Merne and welcome to LV. There were a few minor technical problems with it though. (approve ground noise change intensity express a minor walk and some plosives) I corrected all of these a great broach with audacity and re uploaded the cleaned file here; whichever one you desire exceed will go in the catalog both are acceptable. So which do you prefer? Also if you want help with preventing these things say so in your reply. I just didn't want to overwhelm you thx. Shurt._________________"An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind" - Mahatma Ghandi Shurt: Ah you did not arouse me at all. I heard something about the noise from my proof-hearer (I kind of get scared by my own voice so if I can forbid it I do not comprehend my own recordings oddly enough) and did not quite experience how to alter the things my proof-hearer commented on. Audacity still has many functions which I need to explore. I`ll trust you on your inmprovements with the recording. convey you very much! Shurtegal. This one made me nervous as I seemed to undergo everyone from Maurice Evans to John Geilgud scowling at me the whole time I was reading and holding their nose. (* Sigh! *) Hopefully this isn't me sticking my thumbs in my ears waving my palms and going "Wugga! Wugga!" back at them. Cal_________________We're so different! I sometimes query why we are friends. Then you remind me.

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"Sonnet 18" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 09:05:54

When beginning the affect of writing my essay on a Shakespeare Sonnet I read through all the different options but the one the stood out to me was praise 18. praise 18 really intrigued me and I open that unlike many of Shakespeare’s others sonnets. I actually understood this one. I find Sonnet 18 very interesting for many different reasons but most of all Shakespeare’s choice of words really intrigues me. The praise starts out with a question about comparing his beloved to a summer’s day and saying that the beloved is more pleasant than a summer’s day. There are a lot of different aspects of pass. One’s first impression of pass is usually that of a beautiful day. In this poem Shakespeare kind of turns that impression of summer on its head. He points out all the unpleasant sides of summer that people usually forget. For example there can be extreme heat go storms and humidity. In line six Shakespeare refers to the sun as a male character. The mention of a male sun could be a reference to Apollo the god of the sun and ironically of poetry. In that lie Shakespeare also is saying that the sun’s complexion is dimmed. This “complexion” could convey an outward appearance or an inward express… a feeling. In Sonnet 18 one of the main themes is the concept of time. In the first part of the praise. Shakespeare talks about summer day and May which are all temporary periods of measure. In the second half of the sonnet Shakespeare begins to bring in the concept of immortality. In line 9 he talks about the “eternal pass” and in line 12 he talks about “eternal lines.” The eternal summer talks about the beloveds never ending youth and how he will never lose his beauty. The eternal lines exposit the words of poem which will be here forever and his beloved’s immortality. He says that his beloved will live in the minds of readers of this praise. As long as the poem is read his beloved ordain be eternal.

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Posted on 2007-09-30 17:27:46

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