day of nothing
Well, thanks to a weird misunderstanding with one client, the project I thought I’d be working on all day today was put on hold (again). Which means it’s probably going to get started at the same time as a couple of other projects that are getting back on the plate next week. Fun.
I’ve been setting aside more time for reading — since I apparently have no ability to stay awake to read at night any more. I’ve gotten more than halfway through Coriolanus! After this is Titus Andronicus, which, from some summaries that I have read, sounds absolutely messed up. Erin called it the Quentin Tarantino of Shakespeare.
January 28th, 2005 at 7:55 am
I’v never read Titus Andronicus, but if it’s the Quentin Tarantino of Shakespeare, I may just have to! Erin rules!
January 28th, 2005 at 11:29 am
The first paragraph of the SparkNotes summary says it all:
By S. Clarke Hulse’s count, Titus Andronicus is a play with “14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity and 1 of cannibalism–an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.” Reviewer Mike Gene Wallace adds, “This is a great play. We’re talking fourteen dead bodies, kung-fu, sword-fu, spear-fu, dagger-fu, arrow-fu, pie-fu, animal screams on the soundtrack, heads roll, hands roll, tongues roll, nine and a half quarts of blood, and a record-breaking 94 on the vomit meter.” Really, there’s not much more to say; that is the essence of the play. Titus Andronicus is a non-stop potboiler catalog of abominations (with the poetry itself counted as a crime by many critics).