because this book is RIDICULOUS
I can only let this carry on for so long without comment.
For my Theory class, we've been reading selections from Theatre/Theory/Theatre (which I can never say correctly and it inevitably turns into "Theatre Theatre Theory Theatre Theory Theory..."). The editor, Daniel Gerould, likes to give contextualizing brief introductions to each excerpt, centering on biographical information about the author.
And he is KIND OF INSANE.
Listen to these opening descriptors:
"Horace (85-8 BC) was a fat little arriviste..."
"Lodovico Castelvetro (1505-1571), the last great Renaissance translator and interpreter of Aristotle's 'Poetics,' was a surly pedant, a snarling polemicist, and a proclaimed public enemy."
"Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the epitome of Elizabethan chivalry, was said to be 'extremely beautiful,' with hair of dark amber color. But, according to Ben Jonson, 'Sidney was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples' due to measles and smallpox contracted at the age of six."
"Lope de Vega (1562-1635)... Tall, thin, swarthy, with a long hooked nose, he passed his youth dancing, fencing, and borrowing money."
"Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a tall, big-boned, brusque, melancholy man, common in appearance, unkempt and slovenly, with a large nose, sharp features, and eyes full of fire."
"Denis Diderot (1713-1784), thickset and powerful in frame, was built like a sedan chair porter."
LIKE. WHAT IS THAT. MADNESS.
For my Theory class, we've been reading selections from Theatre/Theory/Theatre (which I can never say correctly and it inevitably turns into "Theatre Theatre Theory Theatre Theory Theory..."). The editor, Daniel Gerould, likes to give contextualizing brief introductions to each excerpt, centering on biographical information about the author.
And he is KIND OF INSANE.
Listen to these opening descriptors:
"Horace (85-8 BC) was a fat little arriviste..."
"Lodovico Castelvetro (1505-1571), the last great Renaissance translator and interpreter of Aristotle's 'Poetics,' was a surly pedant, a snarling polemicist, and a proclaimed public enemy."
"Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the epitome of Elizabethan chivalry, was said to be 'extremely beautiful,' with hair of dark amber color. But, according to Ben Jonson, 'Sidney was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples' due to measles and smallpox contracted at the age of six."
"Lope de Vega (1562-1635)... Tall, thin, swarthy, with a long hooked nose, he passed his youth dancing, fencing, and borrowing money."
"Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a tall, big-boned, brusque, melancholy man, common in appearance, unkempt and slovenly, with a large nose, sharp features, and eyes full of fire."
"Denis Diderot (1713-1784), thickset and powerful in frame, was built like a sedan chair porter."
LIKE. WHAT IS THAT. MADNESS.