I Love Shakespeare

It started with a wikipedia entry of the day on a Yakuza film Branded to Kill. The digression was made to fetishism and so to a list of paraphilias and other deviations from the norm.

By the time I reached Troilism, my first thought was the same as Steve here below:

From Steve:

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…many years ago I bought an A-Z of Shakespeare by Charles Boyce, with a foreword by Terry Hands, then Artistic Director of the RSC. I take the following lines from the preface to illustrate our intention being the same with the definitions that follow:

‘This book (blog) is not meant as scholarship; my intention has […]

Mention Shakespeare here in North Minnesota and people ask where you’re going fishing. Eagle View, the property on which we are vacationing, is the great outdoors where bald eagle, horsefly, loon and lake have precedence over the Dead White Men of history. This trip started on the tri-county border of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, which […]

* Homosexuality has always been a threat to straight procreative society and religion; as it still is in many (read the majority of) societies. Some say it comes to exist through genetics, others say learned behaviour. It does exist in every society worldwide, but is not necessarily accepted. Elizabethan London was no exception and the […]

There are only 14 references to swans in his complete works. Here they are all said and done:

1 Antony and Cleopatra [III, 2] Antony

˜Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue,”the swan’s down-feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines.

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