she's like the swallow

Jul 17, 2006 11:18

Revelations within revelations within revelations. Well. That's interesting.

Right kids. On Saturday morning I spent $127.50 on Bard on the Beach tickets for September. (Interestingly, later at work I weighed a piece of Vacherin Fribourgeois that also came to $127.50. It was kind of weird.) Now, I am taking Mum to see Measure for Measure, and I'm ( Read more... )

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hipsunderhands July 17 2006, 20:13:13 UTC
I am definitely going to at least one of the Bard on the Beach shows, but I'm not sure which one yet. I might be writing a bit about Measure for Measure in my thesis so it might be that one. Maybe we'll see one another there. :)

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lauzeta July 20 2006, 19:40:01 UTC
Hey, awesome! What are you writing your thesis on, precisely? You probably told me at some point, but I totally don't remember.

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hipsunderhands July 21 2006, 00:57:00 UTC
My topic has expanded from where I first started, but I'm hopefully going to get to write about representations of prostitutes in Renaissance plays written between 1546 (when Henry VIII ordered the closing of all the brothels in London) and the mid-1640s (when the civil war in England resulted in Puritans gaining power and shutting down all the brothels yet again). In the hundred years between those dates, the brothels were opened and prostitution was eventually even (temporarily) decriminalized. It was a bit of a progressive break in the centre of quite conservative politics. I'm looking to study the few examples where prostitutes are present onstage and have speaking roles (such as in Measure For Measure and The Atheist's Tragedy) in order to garner a better understanding of how prostitutes were thought of, especially in relation to the binary gender system. I'm feeling a bit scrambled tonight so I hope that makes some sense. :)

Do you have an idea of what you might like to look at?

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lauzeta July 21 2006, 06:07:47 UTC
That makes sense. :D It sounds really interesting, actually - I congratulate you.

I'm actually not doing a thesis, as I am not in Honours. At one point in the past I did entertain delusions of grandeur the idea of doing, say, a master's thesis on representations of anthropomorphized qualities (ie. Revenge; look at how it/he/she shows up in Titus Andronicus compared to The Spanish Tragedy) and possibly expanding that to involve representations of supernatural characters in modern fantasy. I am not at all sure this is feasible. :D

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fuzzycoatimundi July 18 2006, 00:04:32 UTC
Hmm, that sounds good. You know, it feels weird to think about buying tickets online to a local show now...

Varttina at LOTR was cool.

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fuzzycoatimundi July 18 2006, 00:36:29 UTC
Oh, and Oresteia: would you be up for Mon 24 July and Wed 26 July?

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lauzeta July 19 2006, 17:57:50 UTC
Well, I always close on Monday, and I always teach on Wednesday, so... no?

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fuzzycoatimundi July 19 2006, 18:01:46 UTC
But I think you have a late mid on Monday. Meh, we'll see.

Oh! And speaking of Oresteia, should I pick up a hardcover tome of The Odyssey translated into rhyming verse by Alexander Pope? There's also a large copy of The Oresteia by some translator whose name I can't remember. Yeah, there's too much stuff at Powell's. Oh, and i got your book. It was really cheap, too.

If you don't get this right away, can you call me about it? It should be a local call for you.

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