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food for thought and talk
Wanted: Dead or Alive?
Roland Barthes
Ann Page's Image of the Canon
Palimpsest
Canon Maker of Note
Harold Bloom: "Why Does He Look So Unhappy?"
Taylor Mali
~delightful~
Another Layer
More Invention
...thinking about modernism....
Marcel Duchamp
"Make it new!"
Ezra Pound (T.S. Eliot's cohort and a modernist just like V. Woolf)
from "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
....value of the humanities?....
The Bricoleur
...our leader...
Virginia Woolf
Happy 127th Birthday
T. S. Eliot
Poet
Shakespeare
...invented the human being....
...the source?...
A Room of One's Own
...a metaphoric image perhaps?...
crossing over and under
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ReplyDeleteThat picture of Ariel just doesn't do it for me. I don't really think of Ariel as appearing so angelic. Ariel should just sort of be this metaphysical blob of particles (seeing as he invisible for just about all of his appearances). From a staging perspective, I feel like he could just be a voice, and when Ariel enters the stage area, a certain type of music plays. Perhaps a face could appear on a screen behind the actors. I don't know. I just don't picture Ariel as so solid, nor this angelic. I mean, he does mess with a lot of the characters' heads.
ReplyDelete...yes and you might be right about staging with just voice - i mean incorporeal is incorporeal....so takes away too in some ways from Prospero's power....just a thought.."king of nothing?" - aps
ReplyDeleteYup. Goes right along with being a genre of everything and nothing, in a place that is everywhere and nowhere, and in a time that is every time, and no time. I think these are complex concepts that I haven't quite wrapped my brain around yet. However, if you think about Prospero as a representation of Shakespeare's voice, Shakespeare is the king of words/ideas/stories. None of these are really tangible on their own. It makes sense for Ariel to be more of an idea (abstract and intangible) than anything else.
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