Avarice. Not a word heard often enough, despite its daily impertinent display. Not knocking money or wealth, but our society certainly seems to have developed an unhealthy relationship with it.
Your Shakespeare revival is also timely. Look at Florida for instance. Yet another, literally, cartoonish effort to short sheet (in an unfunny way) an already anorexic public school system. Apparently proletariat Walmart and Tyson chicken laborers are a threat if taught to think outside the box. US history curriculum, especially pertaining to race relations, begins with Different Strokes and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. English Literature, especially Sir William…better be a version of G rated Bible Phonics, with pretty pictures and Snow White Tinker-bell language. Although, WTF…even the “purity”of the House of Mouse is questionable if you ask immaculate conception-nyte and intact hymen, Mrs. Guvnah Rhonda Santis.
It’s sad to watch.
Though if I am honest, English Lit (Shakespeare in particular) and Chemistry were my least favorite subjects in high school, pretty sure my grades prove that. But I appreciated and still do appreciate Shakespeare. An open mind. Also, I was blessed to attend high school in London England where Sir William literally came to life on stage for me. I remember my most indelible-upon-the-memory English Lit teacher the late Don Jesse with much bombastic energy saying,
“hell class, we’ll read later…before lunch today you will have seen the writing come to life! Now get on the bloody tube, meet you at the Covent Garden stop in 45 minutes!”
I digress. I am going to voraciously read your Shakespeare essays, cause we all should.
Thank you.
Peace
☮️🇺🇸☯️
PS - I may post an essay of my own dovetailing off yours. I hope that’s okay. It brought back fond memories of my time in London. Plus GiGi reminded me when we were in London (2017) we saw an outdoor theatre on the Thames performance of “The Taming”. There may even be pictures.
You have a tremendously interesting life story. I encourage you to write about it. We were in London in off-season so main stage at the Globe had no performances, but a smaller theatre in the building was playing Pericles. Not a great play but we were practically on the stage with the players and I’ll never forget it. I think if students were introduced to Shakespeare through stage performance rather than the written text, it would have better educational value. As your teacher said, the words come to life on the stage, and that’s how Shakespeare intended his work to be experienced. The folios were not his focus and likely much of his audience were illiterate. Sadly, theatre and the arts (and libraries) are the first budget cuts under Republican rule. The arts open minds, which makes controlling people much more difficult.
Thanks for sharing.
Avarice. Not a word heard often enough, despite its daily impertinent display. Not knocking money or wealth, but our society certainly seems to have developed an unhealthy relationship with it.
Your Shakespeare revival is also timely. Look at Florida for instance. Yet another, literally, cartoonish effort to short sheet (in an unfunny way) an already anorexic public school system. Apparently proletariat Walmart and Tyson chicken laborers are a threat if taught to think outside the box. US history curriculum, especially pertaining to race relations, begins with Different Strokes and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. English Literature, especially Sir William…better be a version of G rated Bible Phonics, with pretty pictures and Snow White Tinker-bell language. Although, WTF…even the “purity”of the House of Mouse is questionable if you ask immaculate conception-nyte and intact hymen, Mrs. Guvnah Rhonda Santis.
It’s sad to watch.
Though if I am honest, English Lit (Shakespeare in particular) and Chemistry were my least favorite subjects in high school, pretty sure my grades prove that. But I appreciated and still do appreciate Shakespeare. An open mind. Also, I was blessed to attend high school in London England where Sir William literally came to life on stage for me. I remember my most indelible-upon-the-memory English Lit teacher the late Don Jesse with much bombastic energy saying,
“hell class, we’ll read later…before lunch today you will have seen the writing come to life! Now get on the bloody tube, meet you at the Covent Garden stop in 45 minutes!”
I digress. I am going to voraciously read your Shakespeare essays, cause we all should.
Thank you.
Peace
☮️🇺🇸☯️
PS - I may post an essay of my own dovetailing off yours. I hope that’s okay. It brought back fond memories of my time in London. Plus GiGi reminded me when we were in London (2017) we saw an outdoor theatre on the Thames performance of “The Taming”. There may even be pictures.
You have a tremendously interesting life story. I encourage you to write about it. We were in London in off-season so main stage at the Globe had no performances, but a smaller theatre in the building was playing Pericles. Not a great play but we were practically on the stage with the players and I’ll never forget it. I think if students were introduced to Shakespeare through stage performance rather than the written text, it would have better educational value. As your teacher said, the words come to life on the stage, and that’s how Shakespeare intended his work to be experienced. The folios were not his focus and likely much of his audience were illiterate. Sadly, theatre and the arts (and libraries) are the first budget cuts under Republican rule. The arts open minds, which makes controlling people much more difficult.