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#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Measure for Measure starts Dec. 26, 2025 (421 years after the first performance!) -
The play's original audience [would recognize the title] as an allusion to the opening verses of [Matthew ch.7]:
Judge not, that ye be not judged.... (RSC intro)
(1/2)
Measure for Measure starts Dec. 26, 2025 (421 years after the first performance!) -
The play's original audience [would recognize the title] as an allusion to the opening verses of [Matthew ch.7]:
Judge not, that ye be not judged.... (RSC intro)
(1/2)
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#TheBard_ProblemPlays
Measure for Measure starts Dec. 26, 2025 (421 years after the first performance!) -
The play's original audience [would recognize the title] as an allusion to the opening verses of [Matthew ch.7]:
Judge not, that ye be not judged.... (RSC intro)
(1/2)
Measure for Measure starts Dec. 26, 2025 (421 years after the first performance!) -
The play's original audience [would recognize the title] as an allusion to the opening verses of [Matthew ch.7]:
Judge not, that ye be not judged.... (RSC intro)
(1/2)
#TwoGents_2025 Week 3 begins 12/8-
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Week 3 begins 12/8-
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
#TwoGents_2025 Week 2 begins 12/1-
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Week 2 begins 12/1-
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Much as the play celebrates the transforming energies of young love—& indeed engages with its destructive potential—it also mocks the courtly idiom of love-language, not least thru the contrast btw the artificial poeticisms of (1/2)
Also interesting is that I stumbled across a volume with "early comedies" consisting of The Two Gents, Merry Wives of Windsor & Love's Labour Lost.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Also interesting is that I stumbled across a volume with "early comedies" consisting of The Two Gents, Merry Wives of Windsor & Love's Labour Lost.
"When you gaze upwards, you marvel at its immensity. Not all buildings evoke this feeling in you. Only two others, you say-- ...the Cologne Cathedral, and another time, amid the numerous columns of the Luxor and Karnak Temples in Egypt." #XiXi #NYRBWomen25 #Arcades chapter #Architecture
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"When you gaze upwards, you marvel at its immensity. Not all buildings evoke this feeling in you. Only two others, you say-- ...the Cologne Cathedral, and another time, amid the numerous columns of the Luxor and Karnak Temples in Egypt." #XiXi #NYRBWomen25 #Arcades chapter #Architecture
#TwoGents_2025 Starts 11/24/25-
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Starts 11/24/25-
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
GLOUCESTER. O ruined piece of nature! This great world
Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
. . .
LEAR. O, ho, are you there with me?
Act IV s5 #KingLear_2025 Clear inspiration for House (Lear) and faithful Wilson (Gloucester) on #HouseMD (recent binge during illness), yes?
Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
. . .
LEAR. O, ho, are you there with me?
Act IV s5 #KingLear_2025 Clear inspiration for House (Lear) and faithful Wilson (Gloucester) on #HouseMD (recent binge during illness), yes?
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
GLOUCESTER. O ruined piece of nature! This great world
Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
. . .
LEAR. O, ho, are you there with me?
Act IV s5 #KingLear_2025 Clear inspiration for House (Lear) and faithful Wilson (Gloucester) on #HouseMD (recent binge during illness), yes?
Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?
. . .
LEAR. O, ho, are you there with me?
Act IV s5 #KingLear_2025 Clear inspiration for House (Lear) and faithful Wilson (Gloucester) on #HouseMD (recent binge during illness), yes?
Perhaps you can find a used copy of this? (I'm reading most of the plays from a giant tome, RSC 2d edition. I have 8 plays in Folger or Oxford from high school!)
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Perhaps you can find a used copy of this? (I'm reading most of the plays from a giant tome, RSC 2d edition. I have 8 plays in Folger or Oxford from high school!)
#KingLear_2025 Week 4 begins 11/10-
The play’s pattern…is of Stoic comfort not working.
Stoic comfort will not do...it is better to ‘speak what we feel’ than ‘what we ought to say.’ 16th c. philosopher Erasmus- there is inhumanity in the notion that to be wise you must suppress the emotions. RSC.
The play’s pattern…is of Stoic comfort not working.
Stoic comfort will not do...it is better to ‘speak what we feel’ than ‘what we ought to say.’ 16th c. philosopher Erasmus- there is inhumanity in the notion that to be wise you must suppress the emotions. RSC.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#KingLear_2025 Week 4 begins 11/10-
The play’s pattern…is of Stoic comfort not working.
Stoic comfort will not do...it is better to ‘speak what we feel’ than ‘what we ought to say.’ 16th c. philosopher Erasmus- there is inhumanity in the notion that to be wise you must suppress the emotions. RSC.
The play’s pattern…is of Stoic comfort not working.
Stoic comfort will not do...it is better to ‘speak what we feel’ than ‘what we ought to say.’ 16th c. philosopher Erasmus- there is inhumanity in the notion that to be wise you must suppress the emotions. RSC.
Merci, en avant vers le deuxième!
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Merci, en avant vers le deuxième!
#KingLear_2025 Week 3 begins Nov. 3rd-
"Where Macbeth and Othello are focused tightly upon a single plot line, the action of Lear greatly extends the technique of parallel plotting with which Shakespeare had experimented in Hamlet." RSC intro.
"Where Macbeth and Othello are focused tightly upon a single plot line, the action of Lear greatly extends the technique of parallel plotting with which Shakespeare had experimented in Hamlet." RSC intro.
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#KingLear_2025 Week 3 begins Nov. 3rd-
"Where Macbeth and Othello are focused tightly upon a single plot line, the action of Lear greatly extends the technique of parallel plotting with which Shakespeare had experimented in Hamlet." RSC intro.
"Where Macbeth and Othello are focused tightly upon a single plot line, the action of Lear greatly extends the technique of parallel plotting with which Shakespeare had experimented in Hamlet." RSC intro.
FOOL. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i'th'paste alive: she napped 'em o'th'coxcombs with a stick & cried "Down, wantons, down!" 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
Act II s2 #KingLear_2025 Misguided kindness
Act II s2 #KingLear_2025 Misguided kindness
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
FOOL. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i'th'paste alive: she napped 'em o'th'coxcombs with a stick & cried "Down, wantons, down!" 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
Act II s2 #KingLear_2025 Misguided kindness
Act II s2 #KingLear_2025 Misguided kindness
#KingLear_2025 Week 2 begins 10/27-
“King Lear is a play full of questions. The big ones go unanswered. … In this world, there is no rhyme or reason, no pattern of divine justice. …Shakespeare reimagines his material in a bleak pagan world. In this, he not only looks back to the past, but -
1/2
“King Lear is a play full of questions. The big ones go unanswered. … In this world, there is no rhyme or reason, no pattern of divine justice. …Shakespeare reimagines his material in a bleak pagan world. In this, he not only looks back to the past, but -
1/2
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#KingLear_2025 Week 2 begins 10/27-
“King Lear is a play full of questions. The big ones go unanswered. … In this world, there is no rhyme or reason, no pattern of divine justice. …Shakespeare reimagines his material in a bleak pagan world. In this, he not only looks back to the past, but -
1/2
“King Lear is a play full of questions. The big ones go unanswered. … In this world, there is no rhyme or reason, no pattern of divine justice. …Shakespeare reimagines his material in a bleak pagan world. In this, he not only looks back to the past, but -
1/2
#KingLear_2025 Week 1 starts Mon. 10/20/25-
“In uncertain times, we need images, games & experiments as ways of trying to make sense of our world. We need plays. That is why, four centuries on, we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror-world in which everyone is a player.” RSC intro.
“In uncertain times, we need images, games & experiments as ways of trying to make sense of our world. We need plays. That is why, four centuries on, we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror-world in which everyone is a player.” RSC intro.
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#KingLear_2025 Week 1 starts Mon. 10/20/25-
“In uncertain times, we need images, games & experiments as ways of trying to make sense of our world. We need plays. That is why, four centuries on, we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror-world in which everyone is a player.” RSC intro.
“In uncertain times, we need images, games & experiments as ways of trying to make sense of our world. We need plays. That is why, four centuries on, we keep going back to Shakespeare and his dazzling mirror-world in which everyone is a player.” RSC intro.
#NowWatching (actually watched last night) GRANDMA is a delightful, dark, witty, indie starring the phenomenal #LilyTomlin #JuliaGarner #MarciaGayHarden #JudyGreer directed by #PaulWeitz .
#LosAngeles #DeterminedWomen #Life #WatchedWithMyMom
#LosAngeles #DeterminedWomen #Life #WatchedWithMyMom
October 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#NowWatching (actually watched last night) GRANDMA is a delightful, dark, witty, indie starring the phenomenal #LilyTomlin #JuliaGarner #MarciaGayHarden #JudyGreer directed by #PaulWeitz .
#LosAngeles #DeterminedWomen #Life #WatchedWithMyMom
#LosAngeles #DeterminedWomen #Life #WatchedWithMyMom
FYI. An Irish bloke cannot join the US armed forces unless he has a green card. (Crazy how young 17 sounds yet laws are such.)
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
FYI. An Irish bloke cannot join the US armed forces unless he has a green card. (Crazy how young 17 sounds yet laws are such.)
"And in fact it was obvious, from certain features in her apartment, that she regarded writing as a profession worthy of the greatest trust & respect.
. . .
The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."
Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.
. . .
The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."
Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"And in fact it was obvious, from certain features in her apartment, that she regarded writing as a profession worthy of the greatest trust & respect.
. . .
The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."
Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.
. . .
The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."
Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 4 begins 10/8-
"...commoners such as Cromwell & above all Wolsey...become 'great' men, provoking the enmity of the dukes.... At some level, Shakespeare--son of a provincial glover who had close links with butcher's business--is reflecting upon his own extraordinary rise." RSC
"...commoners such as Cromwell & above all Wolsey...become 'great' men, provoking the enmity of the dukes.... At some level, Shakespeare--son of a provincial glover who had close links with butcher's business--is reflecting upon his own extraordinary rise." RSC
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 4 begins 10/8-
"...commoners such as Cromwell & above all Wolsey...become 'great' men, provoking the enmity of the dukes.... At some level, Shakespeare--son of a provincial glover who had close links with butcher's business--is reflecting upon his own extraordinary rise." RSC
"...commoners such as Cromwell & above all Wolsey...become 'great' men, provoking the enmity of the dukes.... At some level, Shakespeare--son of a provincial glover who had close links with butcher's business--is reflecting upon his own extraordinary rise." RSC
Like this cover more than my 2010 Virago edition (close up of a blandly smiling couple.)
#TheWeddingGroup by Elizabeth Taylor née Coles. #BookDesign #Virago
What year is your edition?
Some other good covers:
#TheWeddingGroup by Elizabeth Taylor née Coles. #BookDesign #Virago
What year is your edition?
Some other good covers:
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Like this cover more than my 2010 Virago edition (close up of a blandly smiling couple.)
#TheWeddingGroup by Elizabeth Taylor née Coles. #BookDesign #Virago
What year is your edition?
Some other good covers:
#TheWeddingGroup by Elizabeth Taylor née Coles. #BookDesign #Virago
What year is your edition?
Some other good covers:
Falling in love with the doomed Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England!!!
October 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Falling in love with the doomed Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England!!!
Also:
Matt. 6:28-33 K. James ver.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not....That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven... [so] clothe you...
Matt. 6:28-33 K. James ver.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not....That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven... [so] clothe you...
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Also:
Matt. 6:28-33 K. James ver.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not....That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven... [so] clothe you...
Matt. 6:28-33 K. James ver.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not....That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven... [so] clothe you...
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 3 begins 10/1-
"King James VI and I, his family & courtiers participated actively in masques...Shakespeare & his fellows were frequently called upon to play at court. All these concerns are woven into the fabric of this play, making it a distinctively Jacobean drama." RSC intro
"King James VI and I, his family & courtiers participated actively in masques...Shakespeare & his fellows were frequently called upon to play at court. All these concerns are woven into the fabric of this play, making it a distinctively Jacobean drama." RSC intro
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 3 begins 10/1-
"King James VI and I, his family & courtiers participated actively in masques...Shakespeare & his fellows were frequently called upon to play at court. All these concerns are woven into the fabric of this play, making it a distinctively Jacobean drama." RSC intro
"King James VI and I, his family & courtiers participated actively in masques...Shakespeare & his fellows were frequently called upon to play at court. All these concerns are woven into the fabric of this play, making it a distinctively Jacobean drama." RSC intro
#HenryVIII_2025 Day 14, 9/30- Act III s1 to line 88 "CARDINAL W. Your hopes and friends are infinite."
Location: the royal court, London.
QN KATHERINE.
Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles:
Sing, an disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
Location: the royal court, London.
QN KATHERINE.
Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles:
Sing, an disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#HenryVIII_2025 Day 14, 9/30- Act III s1 to line 88 "CARDINAL W. Your hopes and friends are infinite."
Location: the royal court, London.
QN KATHERINE.
Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles:
Sing, an disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
Location: the royal court, London.
QN KATHERINE.
Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles:
Sing, an disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 2 begins Sept. 24-
"Shakespeare's late plays share a fascination with the very different directions in which poetic language may lead. Elaborate rhetoric & honeyed words reveal how the verbal arts are tools for preferment & power." RSC Intro.
"Shakespeare's late plays share a fascination with the very different directions in which poetic language may lead. Elaborate rhetoric & honeyed words reveal how the verbal arts are tools for preferment & power." RSC Intro.
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#HenryVIII_2025 Week 2 begins Sept. 24-
"Shakespeare's late plays share a fascination with the very different directions in which poetic language may lead. Elaborate rhetoric & honeyed words reveal how the verbal arts are tools for preferment & power." RSC Intro.
"Shakespeare's late plays share a fascination with the very different directions in which poetic language may lead. Elaborate rhetoric & honeyed words reveal how the verbal arts are tools for preferment & power." RSC Intro.