http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10045.html The United States Congress does Shakespeare. Apparently it’s part of an annual arts and education fundraiser. Never heard of it before, but it sounds like a positive thing. On a related note, I always wonder about women who say Taming of the Shrew is their favorite play. Is it that they choose to see it with a wink and a Katarina victory at the end? Or that they enjoy the debate about the real meaning? I suppose that sort of like a Jewish person saying that Merchant is their favorite?
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Hamlet, The Lost Ending
http://epistles.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/hamlet-the-lost-ending/ Short and silly.
The Psychiatric Times, on Hamlet
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/52396
I like finding crossover references like this (which, by the way, is dated 2005). Most folks know, I’m sure, that it was Freud who came along and suggested Hamlet’s issues with mommy. Here is a psychiatric view of that argument and more. As a matter of fact the article opens by crediting Freud with “persuasively answering” the question of Hamlet’s delay. However it then goes on to question Freud’s character-centric analysis, showing the positive side of examining interaction between characters rather than just individual motivation. I’ve got to sit down and read the whole 5 pages.
Cardenio Comes To Massachusetts
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0502/p13s03-almp.html American Repertory is doing Cardenio in Cambridge, Mass starting May 10. I have really got to make more effort to see these things.
The Bard Never Would Have Let Me Use A Sledgehammer
http://nietzschefish.blogspot.com/2008/05/bard-never-would-have-let-me-use-sledge.html [Note, image NSFW] The above link just goes to a not-safe-to-work, albeit artistic image, with the following caption:
Shakespeare only really wrote with two views on women – the conniving sexualized and the innocent virgins. The guys I work with in construction see me as either a sexual object or an incompetent child, so they aren’t much different than Shakespeare. Except the Bard never would have let me use a sledge hammer.
Discuss.