Back, and with intent!
Nov. 21st, 2013 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heliopausaI've been cut off the internet for nearly week, and it's been both depressing and interesting to find how little I know, when I don't have that storehouse of information at my fingertips. Also, of course, it means I've not been reading here much (apart from when I managed to get a short time in an internet cafe) so I expect there's much I've missed - and maybe new stories, too, on AO3 or fanfiction.net. I'll look through and see what I can see! :)
Without the internet, I've been consoling myself by spare-time reading of several Shakespeare plays I hadn't read, or hadn't read lately, or hadn't read with much attention, or just plain felt like reading.
Coriolanus - wow! so much politics and psychology and politics and family and nationalism and ... I must read it again.
Much Ado About Nothing - I'm starting to suspect Beatrice is illegitimate (like Don John, of course, but also like her cousin Balthazar, maybe? The whole play is very brothers-and-sisters, and she is almost a sister, but not quite, to Hero. Who were her parents?)
All's Well that Ends Well -which I've never much liked, because why should Helena spend her life pursuing the useless Whatsisname? But turning it inside-out, and seeing it as a play about female solidarity (especially the horrible dilemmas of a mother who sees her son acting as a sexist pig) in support of a strong woman who knows what she wants, and who she wants, however unworthy in everyone's eyes - yes, I'd like to see a strongly feminist production.
Henry the Eighth - lots of the politics seemed very recognisable. :(
In the meantime the fandom fundraising for the Philippines has raised over twelve thousand dollars, which I think is brilliant. :)
And tomorrow is the 22nd of November, which is the beginning of a C. S. Lewis week (since he died on the 22nd and was born on the 29th. Sounds time-travelly, doesn't it?) in honour of which I will attempt to post a scrap of Narnian head-canon every day. Stay tuned! :)
Without the internet, I've been consoling myself by spare-time reading of several Shakespeare plays I hadn't read, or hadn't read lately, or hadn't read with much attention, or just plain felt like reading.
Coriolanus - wow! so much politics and psychology and politics and family and nationalism and ... I must read it again.
Much Ado About Nothing - I'm starting to suspect Beatrice is illegitimate (like Don John, of course, but also like her cousin Balthazar, maybe? The whole play is very brothers-and-sisters, and she is almost a sister, but not quite, to Hero. Who were her parents?)
All's Well that Ends Well -which I've never much liked, because why should Helena spend her life pursuing the useless Whatsisname? But turning it inside-out, and seeing it as a play about female solidarity (especially the horrible dilemmas of a mother who sees her son acting as a sexist pig) in support of a strong woman who knows what she wants, and who she wants, however unworthy in everyone's eyes - yes, I'd like to see a strongly feminist production.
Henry the Eighth - lots of the politics seemed very recognisable. :(
In the meantime the fandom fundraising for the Philippines has raised over twelve thousand dollars, which I think is brilliant. :)
And tomorrow is the 22nd of November, which is the beginning of a C. S. Lewis week (since he died on the 22nd and was born on the 29th. Sounds time-travelly, doesn't it?) in honour of which I will attempt to post a scrap of Narnian head-canon every day. Stay tuned! :)
