with a blatant disregard for actual historical fact (MacBeth).
Please. Wm. doesn't owe shit to historical fact.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 5:24:17 pm PDT #3344 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
juliana - Jun 16, 2004 5:26:04 pm PDT #3345 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Wm. doesn't owe shit to historical fact.
Dude. I wasn't criticising, but it is fun to see what he does.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 5:38:09 pm PDT #3346 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude. I wasn't criticising, but it is fun to see what he does.
Sorry - I didn't mean to sound so crabby about it. But histories were notoriously slippery back then anyway. But you're right - I love it when he's toadying up to the Powers That Be by rewriting history to flatter their ancestors.
juliana - Jun 16, 2004 5:39:54 pm PDT #3347 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I love it when he's toadying up to the Powers That Be by rewriting history to flatter their ancestors.
And then you go and say what I was trying to say. Thank yew. I do love it. It's a sick love, but there ya go.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 6:00:23 pm PDT #3348 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's a sick love, but there ya go.
Heh. Just today I was listening to that recording I have of Ian McKellen reciting the HoYayful Sonnett XX backed by a rock band sounding like the Velvet Underground. You really need to spend a weekend with Jen chatting up all the dark twisty corners of Wm. Shakespeare.
Jen - Jun 16, 2004 6:04:40 pm PDT #3349 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
You really need to spend a weekend with Jen chatting up all the dark twisty corners of Wm. Shakespeare.
Yes please.
Edit: I'm reading a great book right now called _Looking for Sex in Shakespeare_ that has two delightful HoYay-heavy chapters, one about the Sonnets and another about hot boy-on-boy action in all the works.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 16, 2004 6:17:04 pm PDT #3350 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Though I must also note the scatalogical genius of the comic Ed, The Happy Clown
Another great piece of anti-Reagan nostalgia there, even if the caricature looks nothing like him.
P.M. Marc - Jun 16, 2004 6:22:46 pm PDT #3351 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Playboy of the Western World. How can you not like Synge, Plei?
Well, that first part would be the main reason. I hate PotWW with a passion I normally reserve for cleaning the catbox or people who cut me off. I had an extremely adverse reaction to it when I had to read it.
Sort of like my feelings about Robert Frost. Though I did once write a Frost parody that worked rather well. Pity I don't know where I put it.
But histories were notoriously slippery back then anyway.
I apologize for my other notable ancestor's disregard for the truth. (Hollingshed, or however you spell it. Same branch as Bad Poetry Man.)
DavidS - Jun 16, 2004 6:30:38 pm PDT #3352 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Another great piece of anti-Reagan nostalgia there, even if the caricature looks nothing like him.
Yeahhhhh. For those who have not read it, Reagan's head gets cut off because he sticks it into an interdimensional portal (which happens to be somebody's ass) and it gets stuck on the end of a penis. That was very amusing and bizarre.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 8:04:24 pm PDT #3353 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I love it when he's toadying up to the Powers That Be by rewriting history to flatter their ancestors.
I hate it when he does that. Hate it hate hate it.
No one's claiming he owes shit to history, but the fact of the matter is, historians who also love his work are not obliged to shine it on when he blatantly ignores history to keep his sorry arse out of the Tower.
And Richard is a BULLSHIT PLAY. It would be less infuriating if it wasn't so well-written, mind you, but it's pure NeoCon, er, Tudor, bullshit.
edit: Jen, I used to lecture at high schools on one of the twistiest of Shakespeare's dark corners: the Scots play. Man, do I love that one....an ode to passive aggression in marriage.