From Elyot's Book of the Governour:

One Sonne ruleth ouer the day, and one Moone ouer the nyght; and to descende downe to the erthe, in a litel beest, which of all other is moste to be maruayled at, I meane the Bee, is lefte to man by nature, as it semeth, a perpetuall figure of a iuste gouernaunce or rule: who hath amonge them one principall Bee ( Read more... )

You know how I said yesterday that Endymion isn't all that bad?

I am a terrible liar. I'd rather like to smack everyone in it.

Of course, I have the sneaking suspicion that the play was spoiled for me when I read the intro, which postulates that the title character is a figure for the Earl of Oxford...

The original died in an unpleasant editing accident.

Poll help me study for exams!

Note that I may not take your advice anyway... ;)

My efforts to hasten the arrival of maintenance by whining about it on LJ were all for naught, since they finally arrived at ten after three, ten minutes before I had to leave for my appointment. Which, consequently, I had to attend with decidedly Snapelike (or even Aragornish) hair. This annoys me greatly. (Though now I wonder which of Snape or ( Read more... )

Things I planned to read this evening:

• The Bruce, Books 1 and 2 (1222 lines total)
  
• "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" (328 lines combined)
  
• Act I of Julius Caesar (568 lines)
  

Things I actually read this evening:

• About 500 lines of The Bruce
  
• About half of "L'Allegro" (approximately 70 lines)
  

I had forgotten the unique ability of Middle Scots poetry ( Read more... )

After three months spent reading it, I have finally finished The Faerie Queene.

I am insufferably proud of myself. Though actually finishing was a little bit anticlimactic. And I actually didn't like Book VI very much, although the Mutability cantos rock my world.

On the DSP front, Act IV is almost done, as I got through about half of it and then ( Read more... )

Haven't updated this thing in a while, but very little has gone on in the last few days that I particularly feel like talking about. The non-sucky bits, that don't involve getting a giant pile of used books for low, low prices...

I'm almost getting good at reading Spenser, I think, at least relatively speaking. Which reminds me that I really ought ( Read more... )

I got a postcard from Beth in Ashland the other day -- in fact, I saw her at the department orientation the day before I got it, but be that as it may. One of these days, I really do need to get out there, as it looks like a really neat festival. (The pic on the postcard was of their big Elizabethan-style stage. It's very pretty ( Read more... )

The people at Weebls (you know, they of the badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM) have a new toon up. I like this one ( Read more... )

I had a very strange dream last night in which I was stage-managing at some kind of outdoor theater production which was either Richard II or The Tempest -- it wasn't entirely clear which, or rather it seemed to switch back and forth. I was trying to get the cast to do vocal warmups and most of them wouldn't. Prats. ;)

(I am tempted to blame montjoy for ( Read more... )