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ordinarychroniclesThe same cannot be said for Dryden. After reading the entirety of his Tempest spin-off (I like to think it's weird fanfiction from the late 1600s-early 1700s) for my Shakespeare Adapted and Interpreted class, I still cannot tell if the whole thing was a joke or not. O.o
The prologue and epilogue indicate that he did it to show just how terrible the state of the theater was at the time...and given that he came directly after some real heavyweights like Shakespeare, it seems kinda convincing. Still...the pains he and his peers took in writing the verse for characters like Miranda's sister Dorinda and Caliban's random sibling...yeah. Oh, and the crazy boy who has never seen a woman. Needless to say, there were lots of "I want all the women in the world!" and "Oh noes! I have no idea what sex is!" jokes. The former were exclusive to the boy, the latter were shared between Prospero's daughters and him :P
Moral of the story: That class is entertaining, and I really want to carefully deliberate over the material and make sure I get it.
My Darwin reading seems to be a bunch of people trying to logically prove the existence of the afterlife.
Umm...what else? I went to Laura's for a while, baked delicious almond macaroons, and tried on a hoopskirt with a GORGEOUS skirt. Yay. I am also probably going to have a major role in the Much Ado production that Gina is trying to put on (for those of you that don't know about that).
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Everyone wants me to be Hero.
Moral of the entire post:
I am beginning to think I am a living anachronism. ;D
The prologue and epilogue indicate that he did it to show just how terrible the state of the theater was at the time...and given that he came directly after some real heavyweights like Shakespeare, it seems kinda convincing. Still...the pains he and his peers took in writing the verse for characters like Miranda's sister Dorinda and Caliban's random sibling...yeah. Oh, and the crazy boy who has never seen a woman. Needless to say, there were lots of "I want all the women in the world!" and "Oh noes! I have no idea what sex is!" jokes. The former were exclusive to the boy, the latter were shared between Prospero's daughters and him :P
Moral of the story: That class is entertaining, and I really want to carefully deliberate over the material and make sure I get it.
My Darwin reading seems to be a bunch of people trying to logically prove the existence of the afterlife.
Umm...what else? I went to Laura's for a while, baked delicious almond macaroons, and tried on a hoopskirt with a GORGEOUS skirt. Yay. I am also probably going to have a major role in the Much Ado production that Gina is trying to put on (for those of you that don't know about that).
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Everyone wants me to be Hero.
Moral of the entire post:
I am beginning to think I am a living anachronism. ;D
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