pharmaceutically “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-11Well, this is the Forest of Arden.
04-Sep-11http://partnershipforcoastalwatersheds.org/sitemap.rss At 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 […]
Botanical Latin.
01-Sep-11I’ll be attempting the impossible this Saturday, trying to make botanical Latin interesting at a talk at Catskill Native Nursery. Ten a.m. Probably headed that evening for the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.
All’s Well That Ends Well.
10-Sep-09All’s Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” those plays whose resolution is most unsatisfactory; the poet’s justice seeming to us injustice. The Count Roussillon, whose father died when he was a minor, became a ward of the French king, who thereupon had the power to bestow him in marriage; and the […]
The Woodstock Shakespeare Festival.
30-Aug-09‘Tis the final weekend for the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. I presume I’ll find my way there this coming weekend. The festival is a complete delight, with free admission (donation suggested), no seating (bring a blanket and picnic), and amateur Shakespeare done with zest. The productions have been anchored for many years now by the actor […]