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Pg 845

line 69- CADE

Butcher 81: The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers

*Shakespeare did not say this. Butcher does

Patron- "Sugar Daddies"

The Sonnets

"The Breeding Sonnets"- encourage men to have children

You need to make a copy of yourself to be immortal.

GO HAVE SOME MIND BABIES

"My teacher you taught me to be eternal"

MSND is Romeo and Juliet= everybody was an anagram of everone else

Myth is the darkness outside of Shakespeare's puzzle... or the wood....

There was more in class but I got distracted once we started reading MSND b/c I love it a lot...

some thoughts

Lisette's recent blog made me chuckle almose every other sentence. Your questions on Bill are ones that I have never thought about but needless to say, you have a point. Shakespeare write about some pretty F up'd things. Just take mythology asnd see what you find out..

So much of what we've covered so far has been very related to Ovid's Metamorpheses. From boars to rape. Ohhh so much rape!! There are several stories in Ovid that involve rape as well.... upon reading the RAPE of Lucrece I was reminded of a couple of these stories and thought I would share one with you. Just know all of these rapes are incurred by Jove or Zeus as some of you may know him as...

Io & Jove- Basically Jove wants Io and well...

                                       "Then with a veil of heavy fog, the god concealed a vast expanse of land; Jove stopped her flight; he raped chaste Io." (Ovid 26)

Then when he gets caught like the scum that he is... what does he do? He doesn't want his wife to find out and so he turns poor Io into a cow...

class notes 1/25/11

*Pick your secondary reading*

neoplatonism- is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, founded by Plotinus and based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. Neoplatonists would have considered themselves simply Platonists, and the modern distinction is due to the perception that their philosophy contained sufficiently unique interpretations of Plato to make it substantially different from what Plato wrote and believed.^{[citation needed]} Neoplatonism attempted to reconcile Christian doctrine with the classical philosophies of Greek and Roman society.

metempsychosis- no such thing as death, only change

Stop saying "Shakespeare says" -He is all of them and none of them.

*Sexson has forwarded a class schedule to the class*

-Feb 3rd- 10 min group presentation of Act V of A Midsummers Nights Dream on why it is important

Masque:

 My personal Masque costume from this most recent Halloween

From the mind of Ted Hughes:
                            Venus has a twin names Persephoney in the underworld. They share Adonis. Venus drives Persephoney mad thus turning into a boar killing Adonis.

*Read Nick's blog*: From the ancient text The Epic of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh would be tames if mate was found. To show he didn't want her he cut the hind parts of a bull and threw them at her.
        Thus "Rejection of the Goddess"

*Jamies Blog*
        Rent: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are undead

*Matt's Blog*  Tarquins "Rape of Lucrece"

 The realistic version of THE BOAR!!!

Thrown of Blood - Japanese version of Macbeth

*Ashley's blog* - "The guy is wrong in both poems"

                                               - any act of sex is rape

"She has offered me unconditional love"

Actaeon & Diana- Ovidian myth CHASTITY

class note 1/20/11

Groups for School of Night

#1- Taylor Jensen, Jodi Wilson, Walter Glover, Alex Miller, Anne Heetderks, Craig West, James the Rat, Jon Orsi

#2- Lauren Thigpen, Lisette Langdorf, Morgan Bidlake, Nathan Phillips

#3- Abbie Bandstra, Lauren Skull, Matt Helm, Kris Drummond, Riley Thuleen

#4- Jennifer Thornburg, Lisa Meyer, Jennifer Cooley, Sammy McDowall, Spencer Stilwell, Cameron Meek

#5-Becky Pilgeram, Roberto etc. etc., Jamie Garrison, Amanda Jones, Jacky Allen

#6- Karinne Noah, Rachel Kester, Melissa Newman, Nick Axline, Shelby Soule, Tristan Head

*Read everyone elses blogs, Write a Sonnet in the next 10 days on your blog, Shelby and Roberto's blog

*The secret teachings of all ages

Loves Labors Lost pg.233 act IV scene 3

rhapsody- man speaking with intensity about something he has discovered.

Berowne's rhapsodic speech goes in turn witht the School of Night

Hermetic Philosophy- divine lover conquers

Bruno- Italian philosopher, was burned at the stake. Was found guilty of heresy. Wrote many works on memory... if interested Chapter 7 of Myth and Reality is a great reference!

Michaelangelo's Pieta...                  

Ted Hughes- Married to Sylvia Plath. Poet. Phaethon was his wives myth... the fall of Ichoris

Saint Sebastion- tied to a post and shot by arrows

Above: Mishima obsessed by the sacrificed god.

What myth posseses you?

"The farther back you go, the more mythological you are."

Borge's on Shakespeare- "everything and nothing"

Next time we meet we will be discussing Macbeth Act I scene 7

"Pity like a newborn babe."

Who was Shakespeare?-Nobody as in Everybody

"A great wreckoning in a little room"- As you like it... we're reading it!!

Venus & Adonis my book of choice

I've recently finished reading Venus and Adonis. Unfortunately I found Venus to be very desperate throughout the whole thing. It sadly reminded me of my youth, desperately having a crush on a boy in the sixth grade and seeming well, pathetic. Venus even plays dead to get Adonis to feel bad for rejecting her. Completely reminds me of my youth crushes and the feeble attempts I made to get the "man of my dreams" to notice me. Somewhat makes me chuckle now. Guess it goes to show people want what they can't have.

As far as a book I hold dear to my heart, I think it would be One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Something about turning a morbid depressing psyche ward into a fun environment due to one individual is empowering to me. The other side of the story however is the fact that a human being needs to have so much control over everything around them that they will kill someone else. I just love the book. I'm also more of a movie buff however, so the subject of books is a little unknown to me.

Shakespeare experiences and class notes

My experience with Shakespeare has been purely from the acting spectrum. Being cast as Hermia (as you all know) in the fifth grade. I still remember the show quite vividly. Hermia is the "catch" of the land. Lysander and Demetrius both love her. However, she only loves Demetrius. Helena loves Lysander. There is then a huge debockle in the forest with the fairy king and queen whom are feuding... etc. I am also very familiar with Romeo and Juliet. But then again, who isn't? I was also cast in Macbeth as a senior in High School. I played Malcolm. I have been taught things about William Shakespeares life throughout High School. Also studying a number of his sonnets. That is it however, so I am excited to mesh mythology with Shakespeare. Here we go.

Class notes 1/13/11
Read Venus & Adonis as well as The Rape of Lucrece
print out the School of Night

*renaissance man- a man who can do everything

You will be assigned a group to become members of the night which will entail creating another version of the School of Night.

1st blog: what do I know about Shakespeare?

Hey everyone! Excited to start a new experience with Shakespeare. Looking forward to class on Thursday!