tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post8255832558732107878..comments2023-10-20T16:03:03.157+01:00Comments on Devouring Texts: Shakespeare: Three ComediesLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-42166515374223182952014-10-21T20:50:13.412+01:002014-10-21T20:50:13.412+01:00Love your thoughts on these. I finally read and th...Love your thoughts on these. I finally read and then saw Comedy of Errors performed this year and you know what I figured out... it's the "Big Business" movie from the 1980s!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094739/Melissa (Avid Reader)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02119628715475021774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-27369273678514007412014-10-19T01:12:13.913+01:002014-10-19T01:12:13.913+01:00Your Weds course sounds awesome, spending the ENTI...Your Weds course sounds awesome, spending the ENTIRE semester on a single play. Yes, please.<br /><br />Have you watched the John Mulaney stand-up on Netflix? Cos if not, you should. But anyway, he has a bit where he talks about how as a child, he thought quicksand would be way more of a problem in his adult life than it turned out to be. I feel like "shipwrecks" were the Shakespeare version of that.<br /><br />MIDSUMMER!! (Helena is the best. I love her. Even when she's being insanely pathetic ["Use me but as your spaniel" bit. Not, stop that])<br /><br />"The Merchant of Venice comes under the category of comedy, but it's not so funny if you're Shylock, Jewish, or have a soul." haHA this. Shylock's speech when he's DISTRAUGHT about Jessica stealing her mother's ring and then selling it for a monkey? I feel like there are moments like that when Shakespeare is showing sympathy. Or I might just be overly optimistic cos I don't want to think of Shakespeare as anti-semitic. <br /><br />Side note, I just bought the Lena Dunham book (yay sale!) and am excited to hear you enjoyed. I sort of bought it cos of said sale.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456600806188531803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-9943543826165668662014-10-16T17:03:30.289+01:002014-10-16T17:03:30.289+01:00Look at you, all grad school professional-like. I...Look at you, all grad school professional-like. I'm so impressed that you're trying to blog AND go to school like that. <br /><br />I never really read Shakespeare until I was in grad school and I was obligated to take a class on one author, and since I had declared medieval studies as my thing, my various Chaucer classes did NOT count toward that requirement. <br /><br />ANYway, I loved it. I wasn't so hot at writing a paper every week. But I was constantly surprised by how much I enjoyed all of the plays we read, even the slightly dubious ones like Coriolanus. My favorite comedy is Much Ado About Nothing (hey, nonny bonny!), but I was oddly surprised to learn that my favorite play overall might be either Merchant or Henry V. <br /><br />Which is all to say that I will be EAGERLY following along with your posts. And telling you that if you've not already read Serpent of Venice, now might be a good time to pick it up. :)<br /><br />Good luck with it all!!!As the Crowe Flies and Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110661562901480120noreply@blogger.com