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bibliothecarivs
Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will | William Shakespeare
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Recent acquisition:

📖 Twelfth Night (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Crewe

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xicanti
Skip Beat!, Vol. 35 | Yoshiki Nakamura
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I‘ve rather neglected my SKIP BEAT! reread since I got off the plane, but I‘ll dive back into it tonight while I finish this old-style blonde beer courtesy of my cheap grocery store. (Everyone says Parisian food is expensive. Just shop at Carrefour City and you‘ll be fine!) (Unless you want candy. THAT‘s expensive.) NB: I didn‘t have a bottle opener until I found this Eiffel Tower-shaped one hanging outside a kitschy tourist store. It was €0.50.

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Deblovestoread
Fiddler on the Roof: Based on Sholem Aleichem's Stories | Joseph Stein, Jerry (COP) Bock, Sheldon (COP) Harnick
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#ThreeListThursday

This made me remember all the popular disaster movies of the 70‘s. Favorites on the list:

Fiddler on the Roof
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Witness
Mary Poppins

See @dabbe ‘s original post to play along!

dabbe IKR? TOWERING INFERNO/POSEIDON ADVENTURE ... Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 2w
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lil1inblue
Love Letters | A. R. Gurney
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This play was so popular when I was in forensics in high school. It was THE choice for Dramatic Duets. I've also seen it performed in full several times. But never with any of the pictured stars. I would have loved to see Alan Alda and Candice Bergen.

#coverstories #letters
@Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 2w
MaleficentBookDragon I am a big Carol Burnett fan. 2w
lil1inblue @MaleficentBookDragon I would love to have seen her tackle this, too! I'm not sure who she was paired with, but her and Brian Dennehy would be a great combo. 2w
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Robotswithpersonality
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Pickpick

It is done! Or at least as done as it's going to be from me. I picked up this collection for Euripedes' Medea, was happy to get Sophocles' Antigone in the bargain, and a bonus second Medea by Seneca. Euripides' Bakkhai is a wild time, The Oresteia is pretty familiar ground given the link up to Illiad characters. I wish there was more of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, but what there is extant of it is good. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I did Sophocles ' Oedipus the King, and didn't feel in the mood to do Seneca's Oedipus later. I did give the associated essays a try, but they focused more on the plays/play mechanics/playwrights than the stories/myths behind the plays, which are more my interest. Will definitely be seeking more scholarship on Greek myth, (only took 17 years after the Greek and Roman studies degree for me to recover my desire to do research on that topic) 3w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? especially through a modern feminist lens. Antigone and Medea's stories stand out because they exhibit female agency (Clytaemnestra's in The Oresteia is pretty short-lived 😬), and Medea in particular because she 'gets away with it'. Major themes (don't fuck with the gods, expect your family lineage's curse to haunt you in some way, nothing could be more heinous than killing family - except perhaps sleeping with them 🤢) exist throughout. 3w
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Medea makes for an interesting case because one seems to trump the other - her divine lineage is part of what makes it possible for her to kill and survive - for once no mention of the Furies...will definitely be looking up further modern retellings of her story. Don't get me started on Jason. 🙄
⚠️mentions of SA, suicide, gore, child death
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Rome753
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare
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"Caesar: 'The Ides of March are come.'
"Soothsayer: 'Ay, Caesar; but not gone.'"
-William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar," Act III, Scene 1

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AlaMich
Tragedy of Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare
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Mailing our postcards today…
#idesoftrump

The one and only political post I have ever made or ever will make. (probably, but who knows?)

TheBookHippie Mine went out too. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w
Aims42 Nice!! 👏👏👏👏 3w
AlaMich @TheBookHippie @Aims42 Gotta channel the rage somewhere!! 3w
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dabbe #metoo! 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 Love the PINK! 🩷 3w
AlaMich @dabbe Thank you! We happened to have some pink cardstock left over from the scrapbooking years. 😊 3w
Amiable Excellent! 👍🏼👍🏼 7d
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Vansa
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblatt
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You can never have too much Shakespeare, or books about Shakespeare, specially when they're as erudite as this one.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404969427

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lil1inblue
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