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Here’s the rub! Modern Shakespeare Scholarship has little faith in punctuation in poetry and dramatic text as providing Authorial intention, in turn guiding aesthetic significance. The reasons are that we know little or nothing about the intricacies, rituals and realities of transmission of the text from author to playhouse, to one or more copyists, to […] has a narrative, which in turn progresses from beginning to middle to end, reflected in the tone, tenor and argument. I seek no other solution to the problems of these Sonnets than what is in them. In that sense it is a kind of literary lepidoptera. I get tired thinking of the meta-narratives these Sonnets […] Of him, me, myself and I. We read the words and they judge them. And thou, gentle reader, your office is to sift and filter. Writing is about stopping you, her, him in your, hers or his tracks. Did we miss any pronouns btw? yes, you did. Can you tell which ones they are? I- […] this book on Semantics was first issued in 1941 as a response to the dangers of propaganda by you-know-who. “Semantics is the study of human interaction through communication. Communication leads to cooperation or conflict. The basic ethical assumption of semantics, analogous to medicine and health, is that cooperation is preferable to conflict”. (preface, ix, ibid). […] How do you get a sonnet on the page to come to life? Breathe on it. Sometimes I drink too much before I go to practice sonnets. ‘When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,’ Q43:1. I love the image of a drunk’s eyes winking closed. The rest of this sonnet is […] and make me travel forth without my cloak, to let base clouds ore-take me in my way, Hiding thy brav’ry in their rotten smoke.’ I love the sound of rain. A good shower of rain starts with the wind: a cool breeze announces the approaching spatters, barely negligible at first, prompting the upturned palm and […] Every actor knows this line. Alongside sonnets 18, ‘Shall I…’ and 116, ‘Let me not…’ and thanks to Sting, 130, ‘My mistress’ eyes…’ Lust is its subject and that’s why every actor knows it. Is chastity a virtue for actors? is it known? The casting couch exists all the way down to Community theatre […] is it R.I.P., R.P.? (Received Pronunciation) Are we finally freed from its stranglehold on the lips and throats of actors since the Terry’s? All too often RP creates an effeminate Sh, esthetically pleasing and soothing to the English ear; where Class rhymes with arse, har-har. The lilt and melody of my mother reading ‘Oor Wullie’ […] For they in thee a thousand errors note, But t’is my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote.’ Despite being despised, my heart loves they who despise me. Is this guy a saint or what? Note the 3 repeated /th/ sounds in line 2, and only the […] Q143. Lo! As a careful housewife runs to catch, One of her feathered creatures broke away, Sets down her babe and makes all swift dispatch, In pursuit of the thing she would have stay. Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase, Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent, To follow that which […] |
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