1. David Tennant being in talks to play Hamlet for the RSC next summer. Which, while I think he would be good (and he can certainly do antic disposition), would apparently be the final nail in the coffin for his being the Doctor in series 5, since it would be filming at the same time. So then I would have no David Tennant at all, and wouldn't get ( Read more... )

Two things that should not be true at the same time, and yet they are:

1. Romeo and Juliet is awesome. Even the lecture at the end basically turned into "Does Juliet totally rock, Y/Y?" Which is fine by me. Because she totally, totally does.

2. I have nothing to discuss regarding Romeo and Juliet for tomorrow ( Read more... )

The other day I recognized my alma mater on TV because I recognized the windows of my freshman dorm. This made me very happy, because I love my alma mater ( Read more... )

The last time I looked at the Globe website, the only cast information they had up for Othello was for Othello and Iago (which I remember because, hi, Lord Percy). But poking around on the NYT online, I discovered that Zoe Tapper is Desdemona! My brain is suffering a bit of whiplash from this, since the last time I saw her, she was far more cheeky ( Read more... )

I have done nothing of use this weekend. I didn't finish grading papers, I didn't submit my application for what I want to teach next year (and it's due Monday--but seriously, all the Renaissance classes are being taught by the same professor! What is that??? And I don't know if teaching Shakespeare next year would look bad on my eventual CV, like ( Read more... )

(I often think that a reading group with Pamela Dean's Tam Lin as the starting point, and then followed by some of the texts that get read or referenced, would be a fun time. Maybe it's just that I found myself reading Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Revenger's Tragedy in very short succession this term ( Read more... )

I am such a DORK. In an impulsive fit on Wednesday, I went into Tower Records to see if anything worth purchasing was left, and I discovered a copy of the Globe's This World's Globe CD set, which I decided to snatch up for a friend of mine in the department, as I'd been all gleeful the day before that the professor of the class I'm TFing played " ( Read more... )

Sigh ( Read more... )

Some thoughts on "Rise of the Cybermen," ( roughly in order of their occurrence )

Is it wrong of me to expect the Friday sections to turn in response papers that day when the midterm paper is due as well? These response papers are meant to be two paragraphs maximum, and are not graded; their only purpose is to make sure that students will come to class prepared to talk about something. But the TF who teaches Friday sections has ( Read more... )