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Thank you for this #Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView 😊

1. Iago from Othello. He is so detestable, ruining people‘s lives just because he can. Yet he is also so clever and Machiavellian, I find him fascinating to read about.

2. This is a toughie! Usually, I care more about the characters than the plot. Still there have been books where the plot was so good, I was fully invested even if the characters were a bit bland (“Children of Time” comes to mind).

I‘ve started both “Othello” and ‘Black Tudors‘ this week (and will continue to dip into ‘The Shakespeare Book‘)! I‘m hoping to read the Classic play through the lens of greater historical understanding (Instead of “revisionist history”, I like to think of it as “relevatory history”! )🎭

#Shakespeare2020Project

#Call #QuotsyJun20 @TK-421

#drama #jennyis30
#cyprus #readingeurope2020 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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#bookreport week 25/4/20 @Cinfhen

All I‘m saying is that if I had known about audiobooks in college, maybe I wouldn‘t have gotten a C in my Shakespeare class. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Listening and reading along really helped me engage in the play, and Shakespeare has always been really inaccessible for me. The full cast narration didn‘t hurt. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ppl sure liked to murder each other in Shakespeare‘s day, didn‘t they? This is definitely a gripping story, even as we know well ahead of time how things are gonna go. Appreciate the tiny bit of almost feminist commentary & that, while there‘s a good deal of racist shit said about Othello, he‘s presented to us as just as human & 3-dimensional as anyone else. But yeah...everyone was just killing everyone over anything! Use your words, folks! 4/5 ⭐️

Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood
Burn like the minds of sulfur.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw a new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mock‘ry makes.
The robbed that smiles steal something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

This month‘s Shakespeare selection! I read Othello once as a teen and barely remember it, but I do know I was obsessed with the name Desdemona for a while after 😊🎭 #nowreading

Guys. Maury, nay, Jerry Springer couldn‘t have come up with a better show! Are we really supposed to only hate Iago when Othello was carried away THAT far, THAT quickly with SO little provocation!? What fools these mortals be... #RoryGilmoreChallenge

Day 10 - #Jealousy #AugustABC

These are books that I have read and enjoyed that have jealousy as a theme.

#GreenEyes are often associated with jealousy - the green-eyed monster. And Othello is probably the best known tale of jealousy.

Image shows Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello and Ewan McGregor as Iago in 2007 Donmar production.

#JulyColdplay @Eggs

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,/Is the immediate jewel of their souls:/Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;/'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:/But he that filches from me my good name/Robs me of that which not enriches him/And makes me poor indeed.”

#QuotsyJuly19 | 4: #Gone

📷: Made with Typorama

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey‘d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”

I listened to the audio version with a full cast and thoroughly enjoyed this tragic play.

#audiobook #AudiobookSync

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of #broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.
— Othello Act I, scene 3
#QuotsyMay19

Such a tragedy

I listened to this play. The audio book version was fantastic and well casted for the different characters. It will really fun and a neat play. I normally love Shakespeare but I hadn‘t read Othello yet and I‘m glad I did.

So, if you have access to Overdrive, the website https://www.audiobooksync.com is doing a summer audiobook program called SYNC for teens! Each week, two books are available for free download into Overdrive!

Happy listening!

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.”

#marchintothe70s #jealousguy

Oil canvas painting by Solomon Alexander Hart.

Teaching this on Friday, so I should probably re-read it 👓 #shakespeare

So we went to see out first #shakespear adaptation at Dubai Opera and IT WAS AMAZING. Loved every minute of it!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 can‘t wait to book some more 🤗😊

Opening night!

Book #3 One of the things that impress me the most is that when the right word did not already exist, Shakespeare made it up!

Day 13: Your favorite writer

William f****** Shakespeare!!! He's my main boo.

#williamshakespeare #Shakespeare #bookchallenge

#PennyForYourThoughts
1. Iago
2. Shave your eyebrows (who needs ‘em) 😊
3. Combatting global warming
4. Apple
5. Local election results from today‘s run-offs
6. Occurrence
7. Over
@nu-bibliophile
Thanks—this was fun!

Book: Othello
Author: George Orwell (1984)
Movie: One Day
Food: Orange 🍊
#manicmonday #letterO @JoScho

I didn‘t use to like Othello, I found it too hard to read, but now I‘m older I think it‘s one of the best! And I think Iago is one of the best villains! There is so much psychological drama! The characters are so interesting and damaged! Amazing speeches! Othello is brilliant!

#NoFemmeber #jealousguy
Definitely a jealous guy here....

When you accidentally spill your water on your brand new copy of Othello and it physically hurts 😩😭💔

I've never taken the trouble to read a play before seeing it but this really enhanced the experience. I story of jealousy, hatred, betrayal, and race as iago (mark rylance in this production) hating his general othello lies and flatters him into the famous final encounter with desdemona. A brilliant play brought to life in a wonderful theatre.

On the train home from our day in London where we saw this play by an up and coming playwright starring mark rylance - i love the globe it is so atmospheric and this was a brilliant performance.
I will post my review of the play separately. Not my best selfie.

Getting ready to see Othello at the globe!! Been on my bucket list to see it performed here 🧡

Iago, the manipulative villain.
#deviouscharacters #readingresolutions

#quotsyjuly18 #abandon

Starting The Taming of the Shrew today, but I was curious if anyone else has seen The Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series? I discovered this one while reading extra info. on Othello. The focus is on the different ways the play has been acted throughout time, in scenery, actor delivery, and intention. And there‘s a CD to listen to the same scene delivered in a variety of ways by different actors. Fascinating! #ShakespeareReadalong

So much history! Paul Robeson's Othello continues to be the gold standard.

This is my second time reading this since college & the pages just flew by with mounting dread. I feel like this is Shakespeare's domestic thriller, not just in terms of violence at home, but in terms of geopolitics, looking at the rot in so-called civilised local Venetian society vs the demonised outsiders like the Turks & the "savage" places like Cyprus. Class, hierarchy, gender, & the racialised "other" are all in tension with each other. ⬇️

Went to this absolutely incredible performance of Othello at Shakespeare in the Park last night. It rained so hard, they had to stop twice for the actors to take shelter and for the crew to clear the stage of water, but it was so worth it!!!

Unbearably hot, sticky Sunday afternoon... Beer, Shakespeare, then maybe a short nap 😁

(Just a month late to the #ShakespeareReadAlong)

I found these on Hoopla today! The top one was Episode Fifteen or something in the series, and I would not recommend it. The lecturer basically summarizes Othello in his own words for the whole thirty minutes. 🤷🏻‍♀️ The bottom one was about Shakespeare in general rather than a specific play (for Episode One). It was interesting! I‘ll probably keep listening to that series. #greatcourses #ShakespeareReadalong #oncealitstudentalwaysalitstudent

This was so intense, dramatic, and frustrating. Yet, it‘s my favorite Shakespeare tragedy so far. The villain was so villainous, the grief so total. Also I both rooted for and felt invested in Othello, Desdemona, and Cassio throughout. Looking forward to switching back to a comedy 😊

#ShakespeareReadalong

Just a few days until the start of one of my all-time favorite NYC Summer traditions - Shakespeare in the Park! This year's productions are Othello and Twelfth Night and I can't wait 🎭