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Post by shaxper on Jun 14, 2002 22:15:05 GMT -5
We just finished a reading club on Doctor Faustus. If you'd like to check out the discussion and contribute your thoughts, it's in the Shakespeare's Contemporaries forum. Oh, and by the way, welcome ;D
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Post by Ophelia on Jun 15, 2002 7:23:10 GMT -5
Excellent, I will check all the Faustus threads when I get the chance. I find it a very atmospheric play.
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Post by N.N.W on Jun 16, 2002 6:31:00 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] Ah the fair Ophelia - Glad to see you here! Been meaning to do a comparison actually on Tempest and Faustus - wrote an essay many many mny years ago on Dee's influence on the Tempest as part of the theory for my A level in theatre studies practical exam, and have been toying with doing some follow up reading for a while now...[/glow]
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Post by Ophelia on Jun 16, 2002 7:52:42 GMT -5
Very good to be here my dear N.N.W....
Yes, follow-up reading sounds a good idea. Mephistophilis can be very Prospero-esque.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2002 9:39:42 GMT -5
Hehehe. Actually, we went into that in the discussion called "prospero's magic" in The Plays, though we didn't go into enough detail. I'd love for you to start a discussion about it!
Always glad to see friends here! It helps the community ;D
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Post by N.N.W on Jun 16, 2002 12:59:01 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] I have been putting the word out about the site... hope you don't mind... [/glow]
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2002 13:32:20 GMT -5
Mind? Actually, I'd like to thank you. You've already brought us the remarkale Ophelia, as well as yourself. The more the merrier ;D
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Post by Ophelia on Jun 16, 2002 17:26:09 GMT -5
Thank you, shaxper. I'm proud to be a part of the community.
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Post by Portia on Jun 16, 2002 18:15:32 GMT -5
Hello to you all. My name really is Celeste. If I had been thinking a little more clearly at the time I registered I would have been a little more creative with my user name. Maybe it would have been Portia (from Merchant).
Anyway, I eared my B.A. in English from the University of Montana and am currently a grad student of Comparative Literature at a school here in southern California. In addition, I have been a teacher for 5 years at the secondary level. I teach Adv. World Literature, but am looking forward to teaching at the university level some day. I love being around people who have a passion for literature and writing. I found this site through a posting on Shakespeare.com. I was looking for a place such as this. Shakespeare.com is ok, but you get a little tired of the homework questions being posted day after day.
So, thanks for the site. I'm having a lot of fun reading the opinions and such.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2002 21:03:30 GMT -5
Ta-da! You're Portia ;D
If you'd like to change it back or into something else, you can do so by modifying your profile and changing the name in the "Name" catagory. You'll still use celeste as your log in name.
Welcome again, Celeste/Portia! We're glad to have you here. You too Ophelia. It's wonderful to see so many excited new faces around here!!
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Post by N.N.W on Jun 24, 2002 6:28:13 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300] How many of you guys are our colonial cousins?
Ophelia and I are both from rainy old England... [/glow]
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Post by shaxper on Jun 24, 2002 12:02:22 GMT -5
I'm from New York, am living in Pennsylvania, will be living in New York again in another week, and will be living in Italy for a year starting in August (thus my general business and inability to post regularly at the moment). I'm a U.S. Citizen but, beyond that, I haven't had a geographical location that I could call "home" for quite a while now.
Ganymede is from Pennyslvania, but is marrying me next week(!!) and has been moving around with me for the past four years.
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Post by Harry on Jun 24, 2002 20:07:54 GMT -5
Hey Shaxper! Congrats! I'm sure you and Ganymede will be very happy. I live in Michigan. That's the Ultimate West to New Yorkers, Damnyankeeland to Texans, and the East Coast to people in Seattle. I live 30 miles north of Detroit which is the only major city in the US where you drive south to go to Canada.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 24, 2002 21:43:30 GMT -5
Hey Shaxper! Congrats! I'm sure you and Ganymede will be very happy. Thanks! Though, confidentially, I plan to make her life a living hell ;D
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Post by Juliet on Jun 24, 2002 23:56:42 GMT -5
Hello all, I'm delighted to be here. There's nothing better to do on lazy summer evenings than to talk about Shakespeare!!! I've loved Shakespeare as long as I can remember. My first Shakespeare play was a high school production of Much Ado About Nothing that I saw when I was five, and since then I've just fallen more and more in love with the characters, the language...everything! My appreciation has grown from watching the plays, to acting in them (Francis from Henry IV, Young Marina from Pericles, Ariel) and directing them, to reading and analyzing them. I directed a shortened version of the Tempest when I was in fourth grade, and now I'm going to be directing a student production of As You Like It, which I am very excited and slightly nervous about. I'm just a Renaissance-crazed person in general, I suppose (and glad to be in good company!) I write (silly) sonnets for people on their birthdays, want to work in a Renaissance Faire, take Queen Elizabeth I as my role model, etc, etc. I've recently started reading Marlowe and John Donne, and loving them, too,(although not quite so much as Will). In general, I like reading, writing and acting. Russian authors are rapidly becoming another failing. I adore Tolstoy, and I'm in the middle of Crime and Punishment. I read Virginia Woolf's Orlando two nights ago, and now I must add her to the list of favored authors. Yeats is my favorite as far as poets go, after Shakespeare. In a concession to modernity, I also think Billy Collins, our poet laureate, is fabulous. Yes, that means I'm an American. Drat. I want to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon! Well, that pretty much sums it up. Congratulations shaxper and ganymede! That sounds like a match made in Shakespearean heaven! How absolutely perfect! I'm sure you'll quote each other's ears off and it will all be wonderful. Well now, I want to be a denzien as soon as possible, so I'd better keep posting!
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