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chocolatpi's JournalWas Shakespeare a Woman?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/who-is-shakespeare-emilia-bassano/588076/?utm_source=pocket-newtabUpdated at 6:33 p.m. ET on June 7, 2019.
Was Shakespeare a Woman?
The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.
On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our memories of the play’s best lines. I pulled up Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy on my iPhone. “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” I read, thrilled once again by the incantatory power of the verse. I remembered where I was when I first heard those lines: in my 10th-grade English class, startled out of my adolescent stupor by this woman rebelling magnificently and malevolently against her submissive status. “Make thick my blood, / Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.” Six months into the #MeToo movement, her fury and frustration felt newly resonant.
Pulled back into plays I’d studied in college and graduate school, I found myself mesmerized by Lady Macbeth and her sisters in the Shakespeare canon. Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, raging at the limitations of her sex (“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace”). Rosalind, in As You Like It, affecting the swagger of masculine confidence to escape those limitations (“We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside, / As many other mannish cowards have / That do outface it with their semblances”). Isabella, in Measure for Measure, fearing no one will believe her word against Angelo’s, rapist though he is (“To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, / Who would believe me?”). Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew, refusing to be silenced by her husband (“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, / Or else my heart concealing it will break”). Emilia, in one of her last speeches in Othello before Iago kills her, arguing for women’s equality (“Let husbands know / Their wives have sense like them”).
I was reminded of all the remarkable female friendships, too: Beatrice and Hero’s allegiance; Emilia’s devotion to her mistress, Desdemona; Paulina’s brave loyalty to Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; and plenty more. (“Let’s consult together against this greasy knight,” resolve the merry wives of Windsor, revenging themselves on Falstaff.) These intimate female alliances are fresh inventions—they don’t exist in the literary sources from which many of the plays are drawn. And when the plays lean on historical sources (Plutarch, for instance), they feminize them, portraying legendary male figures through the eyes of mothers, wives, and lovers. “Why was Shakespeare able to see the woman’s position, write entirely as if he were a woman, in a way that none of the other playwrights of the age were able to?” In her book about the plays’ female characters, Tina Packer, the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, asked the question very much on my mind.
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Mr. Mueller, betrayal
I remember your days in previous Republican administrations. Many like me were willing to give you the benefit of doubt. I no longer consider you an honorable public servant.
Rot in hell, you have betrayed your obligation to the Rule of Law and our fragile republic. You are just another partisan hack. May history record the betrayal of your oath and disgusting behavior while in public office.
Russia on the Ritz
Vlad is a fan of western music. He plays the piano and our resident.
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New Democratic Party of Canada-Mouseland
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Can you smell the fear coming from the Republican Party and their dear leader? Milbank lists many areas where Democrats can focus their attacks.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/lets-talk-about-what-really-matters-in-2020-hillary-clintons-emails/ar-AAD5gF7
Let’s talk about what really matters in 2020: Hillary Clinton’s emails
Dana Milbank
June 19, 2019
(summary of the Republican Party and their current leaders)
It’s a record of cruelty.
It’s a record of incompetence.
It’s a record of fraudulence.
It’s a record of greed.
It’s a record of racism.
As Elizabeth Warren makes gains in the primary, Trumpworld takes notice
https://www.bostonglobe.com/As Elizabeth Warren makes gains in the primary, Trumpworld takes notice
Liz Goodwin 8 hrs ago
MANCHESTER, N.H. — In a presidential campaign defined by sudden surges and by former vice president Joe Biden’s dominance in the early polls, Senator Elizabeth Warren has done something unique: posted a steady rise through a crowded field.
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After a sluggish start this winter, Warren is making strides in the Democratic primary campaign. She attracted a crowd of more than 6,000 at a recent Oakland rally and has surged to as high as second place in some early state and national polls, distinguishing herself from the large field with a plethora of policy proposals that have led her fans to embrace “I have a plan for that” as her unofficial slogan.
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deja vu, Gulf of Tonkin, Viet Nam
The drumbeats of war was expected with the appointment of Bolton.
Here we go again. It's another "smoke screen" to deflect from the failures of a Republican presidency and Senate.
Keep your nose to the ground and don't go for the bait my dear media (printed and broadcasted) friends. As media experts, you have a chance of a lifetime. Expose the truth hiding in plain sight
What kills black people,
as explained by Redd Foxx...
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"Do not go gentle into that night."
It is my nature to say what I think, then stand aside to consider other opinions. The burden of speaking for myself is sufficient. It's not humility on my part. There is nothing I can write that has not been expressed in music or words of the author, the playwright, the politician, the crusader or a journalist.
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas - 1914-1953
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, Rage against the dying of the light
Donnie boy your crack is showing.
I posted the video in the Video & Multimedia category, same title. I wanted to expand to include the lyrics for those who can't or don't wish to play the video.
"Going game to game, no one in your way", except for Speaker Pelosi and the courts. I hope our Republic holds on the "Rule of Law". If not, we take the first plunge into an uncharted abyss and chaos. imo (edited for spelling, shhhsh..)
https://genius.com/Bob-seger-still-the-same-lyrics
[Verse 1]
You always won every time you placed a bet
You're still damn good, no one's gotten to you yet
Every time they were sure they had you caught
You were quicker than they thought
You'd just turn your back and walk
[Verse 2]
You always said the cards would never do you wrong
The trick, you said, was never play the game too
long
A gambler's share, the only risk that you would take
The only loss you could forsake
The only bluff you couldn't fake
[Verse 3]
And you're still the same
I caught up with you yesterday
Moving game to game
No one standing in your way
Turning on the charm
Long enough to get you by
You're still the same
You still aim high
[Bridge]
There you stood, everybody watched you play
I just turned and walked away
I had nothing left to say
[Outro]
'Cause you're still the same
You're still the same
Moving game to game
Some things never change
You're still the same
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