John Garganourakis
@johngarganourakis.bsky.social
Faculty, English (Mercy University, Queens College, St. John’s) / PhD Student (St. John’s University). Shakespeare. Ecocriticism. Film Theory.
About to settle in for a performance of Henry IV at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. This conflation of Parts I and II gets me two plays closer to my goal of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays on the stage! 🙂 #Shakespeare #theatre
March 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
About to settle in for a performance of Henry IV at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. This conflation of Parts I and II gets me two plays closer to my goal of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays on the stage! 🙂 #Shakespeare #theatre
RIP Gene Hackman. So many great performances. The French Connection, Night Moves, Unforgiven, but my favorite is probably The Conversation, just as relevant today as it was when it was first released in 1974.
February 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
RIP Gene Hackman. So many great performances. The French Connection, Night Moves, Unforgiven, but my favorite is probably The Conversation, just as relevant today as it was when it was first released in 1974.
A question for professors… is there a particular edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets that you use in your undergraduate classes?
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
December 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM
A question for professors… is there a particular edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets that you use in your undergraduate classes?
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
Now playing: Chick Corea’s collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Festival in 2000. The big band arrangement of the track "Return to Forever" highlights the spacey, moody brilliance of this fusion classic. #jazzsky
December 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Now playing: Chick Corea’s collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Festival in 2000. The big band arrangement of the track "Return to Forever" highlights the spacey, moody brilliance of this fusion classic. #jazzsky
By comparison, Robert Fagles’s 1984 translation employs the pronoun “we” to great effect. It emphasizes the communal nature of the chorus. It also collapses the distinction between spectators (who keep watch) and actors (who perform) and illustrates the universal nature of tragic suffering. (3/3)
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM
By comparison, Robert Fagles’s 1984 translation employs the pronoun “we” to great effect. It emphasizes the communal nature of the chorus. It also collapses the distinction between spectators (who keep watch) and actors (who perform) and illustrates the universal nature of tragic suffering. (3/3)
What I like about David Grene’s 1942 translation are those first six words. The chorus demands that we meditate upon our inevitable end and that we maintain this stance throughout our lives. It also gestures toward a life of suffering that Oedipus endures beyond the conclusion of the play. (2/3)
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM
What I like about David Grene’s 1942 translation are those first six words. The chorus demands that we meditate upon our inevitable end and that we maintain this stance throughout our lives. It also gestures toward a life of suffering that Oedipus endures beyond the conclusion of the play. (2/3)
Here’s a look at two translations of the chorus’s final lines in Oedipus the King. Many scholars believe that Sophocles didn’t write this passage (Kitto’s translation relegates them to the footnotes) but even if they are a later addition they strike a powerful concluding note to the tragedy. (1/3)
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Here’s a look at two translations of the chorus’s final lines in Oedipus the King. Many scholars believe that Sophocles didn’t write this passage (Kitto’s translation relegates them to the footnotes) but even if they are a later addition they strike a powerful concluding note to the tragedy. (1/3)
Did you know that Luchino Visconti collaborated with Salvador Dalí on a 1948 production of As You Like It? Here are the backdrops for the court and forest scenes, along with some costume designs. #Shakespeare
November 25, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Did you know that Luchino Visconti collaborated with Salvador Dalí on a 1948 production of As You Like It? Here are the backdrops for the court and forest scenes, along with some costume designs. #Shakespeare
This is what the back looks like…. why can’t all boxsets be this beautiful?
November 25, 2024 at 12:54 AM
This is what the back looks like…. why can’t all boxsets be this beautiful?
I’m teaching August Wilson’s Fences this week, and there’s a new adaptation of The Piano Lesson on Netflix… any excuse to dip into this gorgeous boxset of the Century Cycle. A thing of beauty! #booksky
November 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
I’m teaching August Wilson’s Fences this week, and there’s a new adaptation of The Piano Lesson on Netflix… any excuse to dip into this gorgeous boxset of the Century Cycle. A thing of beauty! #booksky
It’s a Symposium Saturday, and I just encountered this wonderful footnote by translator Christopher Gill: “The significance of the hiccups has been much debated by scholars.” 😁 #Plato #philosophy
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM
It’s a Symposium Saturday, and I just encountered this wonderful footnote by translator Christopher Gill: “The significance of the hiccups has been much debated by scholars.” 😁 #Plato #philosophy
I've always preferred the Robert Fagles translation of these tragedies. Does anyone have a different translation they can recommend? #classics #Sophocles
November 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I've always preferred the Robert Fagles translation of these tragedies. Does anyone have a different translation they can recommend? #classics #Sophocles
I made significant progress on my dissertation about the ecopoetics of Shakespearean film adaptations! The tentative title of this chapter is “Full of Matter: Vital Materialism in Christine Edzard’s As You Like It.”
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I made significant progress on my dissertation about the ecopoetics of Shakespearean film adaptations! The tentative title of this chapter is “Full of Matter: Vital Materialism in Christine Edzard’s As You Like It.”
Now spinning: this gorgeous Craft Recordings #vinyl reissue of Workin’ with the #MilesDavis Quintet. Sounds great!
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Now spinning: this gorgeous Craft Recordings #vinyl reissue of Workin’ with the #MilesDavis Quintet. Sounds great!
Now Spinning: #GratefulDead June 10, 1973. RFK Stadium #vinyl
November 20, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Now Spinning: #GratefulDead June 10, 1973. RFK Stadium #vinyl
Had a wonderful discussion today with my class about Yorgos Lanthimos’s Killing of a Sacred Deer. A modern-day adaptation of the Iphigenia myth, it’s a film that really benefits from multiple viewings, especially when studied alongside Euripides.
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Had a wonderful discussion today with my class about Yorgos Lanthimos’s Killing of a Sacred Deer. A modern-day adaptation of the Iphigenia myth, it’s a film that really benefits from multiple viewings, especially when studied alongside Euripides.
What book started your intellectual life? This edition of Hamlet from Bedford/St. Martin. The play’s the thing, of course, but also includes essays by Janet Adelman, Marjorie Garber, and especially Michael Bristol, who introduced me to Mikhail Baktin.
November 19, 2024 at 2:04 PM
What book started your intellectual life? This edition of Hamlet from Bedford/St. Martin. The play’s the thing, of course, but also includes essays by Janet Adelman, Marjorie Garber, and especially Michael Bristol, who introduced me to Mikhail Baktin.