It's Quine the chewy play, and not so simple as to just be anti-war.
Typo or extremely clever reference? Quine on Brecht would make for an interesting conversation.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
It's Quine the chewy play, and not so simple as to just be anti-war.
Typo or extremely clever reference? Quine on Brecht would make for an interesting conversation.
I just remember him as Larry Fishburne from She's Gotta Have It.
iPhone typo. Stoopid iPhone.
You could have got away with claiming genius instead.
Stoopid iPhone. yeah, it was supposed to be "quite".
I think all other drama is undertaught.
amych is my hero!
I love that I get to expose my students to so many different kinds of theatre. The school just keeps trying to force me into a box that I'm not comfortable with.
Here we are getting into a discussion that is perfect for me and I have to go do some things with DH. Sigh...such is my life.
That's right. Blame the iPhone.
What blew my mind was seeing Fishburne in Apocalypse Now and realizing it was him.
"Elements of Persuasion" would make a good Regency romance title. Someone should use it.
I'd read that.
And, I will add, my students get the chance to read Moliere (I teach him to my Intro to Drama babies) as well as Lorca, Churchill, Ibsen, and more. Last year some of my students wanted to give Torvald a "smack down" when we read the final scene of "Dolls House".
Now I have to run. Stupid errands.
In an ideal world, high school would teach the foundations of Western thought that inform so much literature. There were many years when the only books a family would have would be Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and they were reliable touchstones for writers who could feel confident people would understand their allusions. It would be a great basis for later study if students started with a good grounding in the Bible as literature, Shakespeare, mythology, the Odyssey, the Iliad and the staples of a classical education. Certainly students should get more exposure to other playwrights, but Shakespeare is bedrock in terms of understanding literature.