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Hey Heylin!

So what does a contended and contentious music writer have to say about Shakespeare?

Well first off, he’s a damn fine scholar in my estimation. Second he’s got a bone to pick with another Lady scholar. And Clinton Heylin’s scholarship picks that bone like a starving hyena.

The premise is that the sonnet quarto […]

First Folio Summer breeze…

…makes me feel fine, flowin’ through the jasmine in my mind.

Ok enough, enough with the Ron Rosenbaum enthusiasm. I spent yesterday cruising the web for reviews of his Shakespeare Wars. (I hear cries of ‘get a life’)

The reason being I’m having trouble finishing his book, despite repeated attempts to do so. I […]

Speak the speech: Advice incorporated within the lines…

…Sir Peter Hall’s insistence on a pause, howsoever slight, at the end of an IP verse line is sound.

Silence rather.

It allows the listener’s ear to hear, their mind to digest the meaning of the utterance; and the speaker to remain poised, if it is a run-on line.

Or stop, and continue […]

Lendlings from Colin McGinn’s approach to Sh’s Philosophy…

…So dipping into Sh’s philosophical perspective we find a slew of themes which any decent philosopher (ie anyone who thinks about what life is all about) encounters today. Such as:

* Skepticism and the possibility of human knowledge * The nature of self and personal identity * The understanding of causation (no cause, no cause) […]

books arrived new post contrived…

…i think i can take it as a truism that I ‘m influenced by the last thing i read. yesterday my amazon order arrived.

1 Shakespeare’s Philosophy: …by Colin McGinn Skimmed read preface and conclusion. Much underlining and agreement with this modern day philosopher.

2 So Long as Men Can Breathe… by Clinton […]

… 2, 3, 4 – Cato’s Couplets, Trivium, Quadrivium

(what follows is parsed from Cato’s Distichs which can be found in the links to the right. Cannot be ignored as an influence on Shakes or indeed any educated european early modern).

He passed on up to the grammar school where now his studies were to be those of the trivium, comprising grammar, rhetoric and […]

Love’s labour…

…is not lost when it is done for true love. Love’s labour is itself the reward.

So a saturday night in between 2 shows as a comic, i took to my i-pod and the shakespeare application (god bless you guys) to choose a play. Pericles had leapt into mind and scrolling forth i stumbled with […]

AIM IM ALL”S WELL

AIM IM with WS and LJ on 12/13/08

8:12 PM WS: still away?

8:56 PM LJ: here

9:29 PM WS: col now too?

LJ: ameaning what

WS: it meant cool not col

LJ: whats a happenin muskat

WS: i replied to the uvic mail quite an honour man it’s the number one site on […]

Controlling your Destiny…

…the idea of being a self-made man (or woman). Writing solely as the whim arises. feeding off an inner radar of word conduced to word in finite sequence.

pause, breath, sip of coffee, groove on a tune, real, recorded, or imagined. No fight just flow. with nowhere to go but cyberspace. blink and you’ll […]

W=V

George W. Bush as Henry V?

shoulda been posted a month ago! follow the link to the full paper! Jack Lynch’s blog Dull in a New Way is linked under the lang/lit section.

Apparently i’ve been blogstipated for a month or two.