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References (So Far!) For My Professor (Because It Is Important!)
Avatar Picture: https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2015/11/03/sbs-cate-blanchett-season
Header Picture: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160425-the-book-of-kells-medieval-europes-greatest-treasure
Gosson's School of Abuse: http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/2310/Gosson.htm
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (Both Image Sources Below): https://www.thoughtco.com/saint-bartholomews-day-massacre-4173411 https://historybytez.com/2015/08/25/1572-saint-bartholomews-day-massacre/
Neoligism Post Image: https://odintext.com/blog/trend-spotting
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Romeo and Juliet Performance- OPENING NIGHT ON HALLOWEEN!
So I was supposed to be Juliet in my high school production of Romeo and Juliet. Long story short, the senior who was granted the role due to senior privileges never showed up to two out of eight rehearsals. I knew the play like the back of my hand, start to finish. I remained the mother of a murderous teenager (Lady Montague) and stayed the Juliet understudy.
Anyways, the opening night of Romeo and Juliet at Jacksonville University was incredibly produced. The sword fights were phenomenal! Everyone knew their lines, which made for less of an emotionless and imitated Shakespeare reenactment, which I liked as well as appreciated. A couple of delays are nothing to freak out about, in my opinion. Shakespeare is not only difficult to understand, but to memorize. It wasn’t the full four hours, but was still just as well displayed even with a shorter running time. Dr. Freighburger did amazing as the friar, Romeo was charming, Juliet was properly portrayed (especially before she drinks her possibly eternal sleep to be with her man), Lady Capulet’s societal/motherly struggle was represented exceptionally. Kudos to Kristen Oliver for being the Mercutio I have ever seen in a Romeo and Juliet production! If those who attended one or more of the performances this past weekend, please read the director’s note – it is a raw backdrop to the production itself. Bravo! And brava! ;)
10/30/19
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Yet Another Romeo and Juliet Clarification
So apparently adolescence was not a phase of human growth yet during the Renaissance.
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Also the Romeo and Mercutio love theory has been deemed a feminist argument. Mercutio’s death may have had a huge part in Romeo’s suicide from a mental health standpoint.
My Reaction: I totally agree! Yes!
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10/28/19
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Romeo and Juliet Clarifications Part Two
Macrocosm ----> Government
Microcosm -----> Family
10/28/19
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Romeo and Juliet Clarifications Part One
Homosexual -----> actual sexual act with same sex
Homosocial -----> male-male social interaction
Homoerotic -----> sexy implications
Alrighty then.
10/28/19
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How Shakespeare rejects Aristotle’s ideas
I mean, yeah, basically.
10/23/19
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Petrarchan Cliches
Just a couple to list: love at first sight and melodrama.
Cue Romeo and Juliet with their teenage angst that is justified by their suffrage. A plague on both your houses! If you think I’m being mean to Shakespeare’s use of these clichés.
10/23/19
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Corneille
Just thought this guy was important to add.
He translated Aristotle’s laws into French. He was basically Aristotle’s hypeman. Nice.
10/23/19
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Groundlings
These individuals paid about five pounds to see a Shakespeare play up close and in person. That price is the equivalent of the price of a beer. They were very important people besides this being confirmed by having what we would call today “the best seats in the house.” They determined the fate of the play’s success by intensifying the atmosphere presented theatrically. Shakespeare apparently entertained some of the most sensitive groundlings.
10/21/19
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Neoligism
Another new word?! Don’t mind if I do! It means the creation of new words.
10/21/19
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Shakespeare – First Folio
Shakespeare died in 1616. However, only half of his plays were published as quartos. 181 of his plays were preserved and had never been published. There were 750 copies printed but only 235 survived. 82 of them are currently located within the Folger Library in D.C.
Notice how the numbers became smaller and smaller as you read? We needed more Shakespeare in the world, period.
10/21/19
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Responses to The Apology for Poetry: Part Three
Quote from the Work (That May Entice You to Read Some Antique Defenses):
“For he [the poet] doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entrice any man to enter into it.”
Preach!
10/16/19
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Responses to The Apology for Poetry: Part Two
This was also a work in respondence to Plato’s Republic, which banished poets. Ouch! I was cool with Plato until I found this out. Just kidding: I cannot blame Plato entirely, morals and ethics were at stake! And those are equally important to the establishment of poetics.
10/16/19
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Responses to The Apology for Poetry: Part One
This work by Sidney was a response to Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse.
“The Harpies have virgin faes and vultures talents; Hyena speakes like a friend and devours like a foe; the calmest seas hide dangerous rockes; the woolfe jets in weathers felles. Manie good sentences are spoken by Davus to shadowe his knaverie and written by poets as ornaments to beautifie their woorkes and sette their trumperie to sale without suspect”
(http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/2310/Gosson.htm).
Excuse me?!
10/16/19
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The Interregnum (“Between Reigns”)
1649 – 1660
This period occurs right after the execution of King Charles I. Public theatrics ceased.
Oliver Cromwell tried to make a non-monarchy society work. He failed. Thus bringeth in the Restoration with King Charles II.
10/14/19
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For Background Purposes
This was going on while Sir Philip Sidney was writing his poetry. It was gruesome….real gruesome.
10/14/19
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Sidney’s Time at the Wilson Estate
Epic Romance: Arcadia
Apologia: The Apology for Poetry
Sonnet Sequence: Astrophil and Stella
Time VERY well spent. I wonder if coffee was involved?
10/14/19
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