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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:45:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Read this after reading an article in The New York Review of Books which posited that Euripides wrote <em> The Bacchae </em> as a response to this play. The usual sequence is that the comic writer writes his comedy as a satire of an existing tragedy. <br/><br/>After reading this play again, I can definitel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82413395">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:36:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Who does sad better than the Irish? <br/><br/>A beautifully written novel about an open-eyed Irish boy enlisting, for whatever reason, to fight in World War I. The contrast of the insane conflict in the trenches of Belgium and the insane Republican struggle back in the streets of Dublin make for a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46510081">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:24:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I adored this book. I might even put it as my top new book of 2009. I read it in practically one sitting, so hypnotized was I.<br/><br/>When was Czechoslovakia part of Bavaria? Are you talking about Sudentland?<br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/500444.The_Myth_of_Deliverance_Reflections_on_Shakespeare_s_Problem_Comedies">The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/58765.Northrop_Frye">Northrop Frye</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:46:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love to read Northrop Frye. Even in the most esoteric of literary analyses, he is approachable and good-humored. This book centers on the nature of three of Shakespeare's 'problem' comedies. He analyzes them in terms of Aristotle's concept of peripeteia (reversal), a term that is usually used in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81375930">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118327.The_Persecution_and_Assassination_of_Jean_Paul_Marat_as_Performed_by_the_Inmates_of_the_Asylum_of_Charenton_Under_the_Direction_of_the_Marquis_de_Sade">The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/68593.Peter_Weiss">Peter Weiss</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:45:05 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have been obsessed with this play ever since it played in New York back in the 60s. I used to check the Royal Shakespeare Company recording out of the library all the time and was surprised that I had whole chunks of it still memorized almost 40 years later. The movie, of course looms very large....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80015496">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:46:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I always found the story 'The Laughing Man' astonishing]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3104116.Shakespeare">Shakespeare (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/66894.Johann_Gottfried_Herder">Johann Gottfried Herder</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:12:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Why German drama should not be like that sterile, unities-obeying French drama.<br/><br/>Political considerations aside, it is a delight to read someone else being dementedly rhapsodic about Shakespeare.<br/>]]></body>
        
    
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