So, although I was too sick to go to the library I still have something to post on. See last week during the lecture when we were watching that video on the new Shakespeare portrait I got to thinking.

What if it was a fake? Now I don't doubt the validity of the real painting but I thought about writing a play where a portrait of Shakespeare is found ( Read more... )

I had a thought.

It may not be a great thought but here it goes.

Sonnet 65.

In the tutorials I was really stuck on line 10

"Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid,"

What is 'time's best jewel'? or 'time's chest'? The footnotes suggest 'the beloved' is the jewel and that time's chest is a 'treasure chest'. I'm not sure I agree with those ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying Shakespeare but just felt it was time for something a bit different. So this week I figure I'll slap something in here from my common book.

Prayer.

Prayer changes things
but first it changes me
I call to my father
and he answers me

'Yes' he says and grants my wish
'No' he says as I think why
'Later' sometimes comes the call
'your will be done ( Read more... )

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

Ok, I'm about to exaggerate but I don't care...

I had my hand up for hours in that lecture wanting to say something on this poem and I didn't get the chance. Exaggeration over.

It's a good poem that created a lot of discussion so I'm not that cut about not getting to speak. The things people said added a great deal to ( Read more... )

"Once more unto the breach dear friends once more or fill the gap with our english dead!"

I think everyone has been exposed to Shakespeare both too much and too little. I enjoyed the Merchant of Venice (despite it's antisemitism) I didn't think much of Macbeth and I am through with Romeo and Juliet. School and poorly performed plays (in Macbeth's ( Read more... )

It is always a difficult task discerning which is my favourite. I will have to go with Week 9 this time. It was an interesting challenge and I'm still unsure how it went, but I'd say it was my most original entry this semester (and therefor hopefully worth a few marks).

Here's the link: http://john-mahoney.livejournal.com/13952.html

Well here we are, the last week of the semester.

Time has flown!

Actually, to say time has flown would be inaccurate. Time does not have wings, nor does it have some sort of helicopter rotor, jet-propulsion or other device that would allow flight. Time is in fact, stationary. It doesn't move or change or really get up to much at all.

I have heard ( Read more... )

Arcadia

Well two more drama performances done, and done well. Just my group left which is, I'll admit, a tad daunting. Still nothing for it.

As a play "Arcadia" is much more comprehensible then "Under Milk Wood". Although it transitions between time periods frequently (sometimes line by line) It is still easy enough to grasp the 'nuts and bolts' of ( Read more... )

Wednesday night

A man, pulls into a drive way and gets out of his car. He runs down the street to the form of a fallen man. The fallen man lies in the street, legs in the gutter torso on the footpath a plastic bag with KFC printed on it clutched in an unconscious fist. Another man crosses the street to the prone figure and addresses the man running.
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My idea for this week is to try and write a little something with Orwell's essay in mind. So I'm going to try a little piece avoiding old phrases and trying to put ideas forward in a new way. Let me know how I go.

Searching for fresh metaphors.

Doubt has taken up residence in my mind like the first wasp that builds it's nest doubt begins to thrive.
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