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London Day 18: The Shakespeare Walk

London Day 18: The Shakespeare Walk

by grlucas on 12. Jul, 2009 in Travel

One of the two scheduled walks for our trip (the other is the Jack the Ripper Tour, which I missed), the Shakespeare Walk began in London proper and continued in Bankside. It was a great tour: we crossed the London Bridge, saw the George Inn, several alleys mentioned by Shakespeare and Dickens, the site of [...]

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Shenandoah Shakespeare Express

Shenandoah Shakespeare Express

by grlucas on 25. Feb, 2005 in Drama

What a treat! I was able to see more theatre in the last two days than I have in the last two years thanks to Dr. Greg McNamara’s efforts to bring the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express’ “Rife with Mischief” tour to Macon State College for two performances and two workshops. I was unable to attend the [...]

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Ophelia

Ophelia

by grlucas on 28. Dec, 2004 in Feminism, Literature, Politics

Sir John Everett Millais’ 1852 painting “Ophelia” might be subtitled “Western Literature’s Woman.” It seems to me that the history of Western Literature has prescribed this role for its women: the drowned suicide of men’s struggles for power and control. Ophelia is the metaphor for a real world of patriarchal desire for control. Ophelia is [...]

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Sonnet 121

by grlucas on 07. Jul, 2003 in Uncategorized

‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemedWhen not to be receives reproach of being,And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemedNot by our feeling, but by others’ seeing.For why should others’ false adulterate eyesGive salutation to my sportive blood?Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,Which in their wills count bad what I [...]

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