Happy birthday Emily Dickinson! I think about this poem a lot; maybe it will help you too:

To fight aloud, is very brave -
But gallanter, I know ( Read more... )

One of the Complete Walk films from Shakespeare's Globe - Richard II with James Norton as Richard and Dominic Rowan as Bolingbroke - seems to be available in (what I'm assuming is) its entirety here ( Read more... )

King Lear podcasts from the National Theatre ( Read more... )

Buh what?
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/apr/23/shakespeare-in-love-450th-birthday-video

You all know that I adore Shakespeare in Love, and part of that is precisely for the reason that James Shapiro gives in this ( Read more... )

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest."
--Mansfield Park (the first sentences of the last chapter ( Read more... )

Happy birthday Emily Dickinson! Here is a short poem that always pleases me to think on; there's something about its compression that always takes my breath away. It's probably a cliche to talk about Dickinson's individuality, her selfness, her insistence on being herself in her poetry (capitalizations and dashes and all), but I read a poem like ( Read more... )

Well, oh snap, Laurie Kaplan.
"Adapting Emma for the Twenty-first Century: An Emma No One Will Like"
http://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol30no1/kaplan.html

*giggle*

(Incidentally, I decided that if I were going to name a book of excerpts of Austen ( Read more... )

Also, it was Emily Dickinson's birthday yesterday. And given that today is one of those cold, clear, sharp winter days:

There's a certain Slant of light ( Read more... )

Hmph. It might have been Jane Austen's birthday today, but you'd never know it from my lack of success at finding a copy of Love and Friendship anywhere about. (Or Love and Freindship either, ha ha.) I wanted to get it as part of a Christmas present for a friend, but it was not to be had, even though I went to three different stores. Not even ( Read more... )

It's all I have to bring today -
This, and my heart beside -
This, and my heart, and all the fields -
And all the meadows wide -
Be sure you count - should I forget
Some one the sum could tell -
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee ( Read more... )