Tag Archives: Shakespeare

fanon: prospero complex

Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience is still attentive. Violence as the path of least resistance? …The second symptom of the Prospero complex is the symbolic equation of black skin with evil. One descends … Continue reading

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gilligan in a tempest: o brave new world

photoshop making the rounds. I guess we can thank John Heartfield and the Berlin Dada for the original altered art collages of the powers to be and that wanna be. But satire, at heart is an acceptance, perhaps transgressive, but … Continue reading

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800,000 words

A religion of Jesus or a religion about Jesus…As Jonathan Swift once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” ‎”among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (jesus) … Continue reading

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aware and beware: the amateur guru

Why is that swami smiling? They taught their doctrine in private conversation, and the doctrine was simple enough. It said that if you had the patience to go off and think about yourself for a long time, you would end … Continue reading

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the denouement

Love on the rocks. It may have begun with Antony’s affair with Cleopatra, which was, at the beginning, a statecraft spiced with pleasure. However, it turned into infatuation poisoned by statecraft. And then came the denouement. Perhaps love and politics … Continue reading

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the importance of being ernest

An urge to get ahead in his own awkward way and still be loved. Jim Varney. An American archetype with a long tradition; at least going back to before the civil war and the times of Herman Melville. In Constance … Continue reading

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knowing the dancer from the dance

In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading

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for, sooth to say,…it was no sort of life

He was one of the “new men” who rose and fell by their wits; Spencer’s work and life a reflection of the splendors and miseries of his time. “The Elizabethan conception of world-order was in its outlines medieval although it … Continue reading

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spenser and the poetry of opposites

Herbert Spenser’s achievement in “The Faerie Queene” was to embody the great antitheses of the Elizabethan era: both the magnanimity and grace of the age that inspired poets and sent adventurers around the world, and the frantic cruelty that degraded … Continue reading

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FAME & Celebrity: Providing a Reliable Supply of Sensations

The quest for fame has always been a central motive for poets and artists; from David’s psalms and Aristophanes plays, the need to transcend has been as evident as the human ego. Celebrity, however, has always been the volatile,unpredictable and … Continue reading

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