This week, I'm back on the Juniper Prize editing train: tackling a second book of short stories, with two poetry collections waiting in the wings. I'm scheduled to teach a poetry workshop in Kittery on Saturday but haven't yet heard if there are enough participants to make it run. Tomorrow afternoon I head north for band practice. Tonight Tom and I are going to a Sea Dogs game. Coriolanus will get a slow start, but at least I've been able to enjoy the opening stage direction:
Enter a company of mutinous citizens with staves, clubs, and other weapons.Metaphorize and extrapolate as you see fit.
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I'm interested in why you've chosen Coriolanus? I remember reading it in college, and being fascinated by the women characters. I will admit it's not my favorite of Shakespeare's plays, but the interpersonal relationships among the characters (and the relationship with Self that the title character struggles with) are interesting.
I chose it because I've neither read it nor seen it, but I have read reviews of performances, which I found intriguing. I wanted to choose a play that was new to me, language-wise and that had a serious and fraught main character. I hope I've made an appropriate choice.
Let me/us all know what you think of his mother! I rank her as more manipulative and downright horrifying than Lady MacBeth.
I see that there is a modernized version of the play on dvd/Amazon instant play with Vanessa Redgrave. I think I'll check it out.
Oooh, neat! I was wondering how you were choosing the text.
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