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“Suddenly it seemed possible to him that Caesar might rule as ‘first among equals’ rather than as a tyrant.” sits on my hands. i love this

IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE BABY MOMENT OF ALL FUCKING TIME PEETA MELLARK SERVED CUNT AND NOTHING BUT CUNT

genuinely insane how much science disproves fatphobia and how many people simply do not give a shit

JOHANNA HIIIIIII HI HI HI HI HI

i am a haymitch enjoyer. i am such a haymitch enjoyer

the number of times i've learned something i thought robert harris made up for the cicero trilogy actually happened in real life. because roman history is stranger than fiction

"Indeed, the costumes were real court garments [sold from the servants of dead gentlemen to actors]... This means that when the ordinary Elizabethan went to the theater to see a play about royalty, he might have thought of the drama as a mere fiction, but its trappings were paradoxically the real thing."

omg this guy wrote the essay in the folger winter's tale...

obsessed with how spectacularly bad mark antony was at making threats that were even slightly subtle

I'M DONE WITH ASSIGNED READINGS. now i just . have to do. my fucking. finals

yeah i still don't like this one as much as i wish i did. but paulina and hermione are my everythings

i can support camillo being gay as fuck but for LEONTES?

paulina you are everything

two. more weeks until i am done with assigned and project-related readings for this semester and i can fucking do something fun for longer than the 15-minute daily intervals i've eked out for the hunger games. two (2). clinging to the sink staring into the mirror shaking etc

OH MY GOD??????

can't decide if i will be annoyed if this one plotline goes where i think it's going.

“The precocious teenage poet had grown into an overprolific windbag” ohhhhh he’s just like me fr

"If a marginalized identity or experience can be established to be a choice, then [...] any negative experience [marginalized people] face is a natural consequence of their poor decision-making. And the aggressors who create those negative experiences don't have to reflect on their own complicity and accountability."

[breaking from my haze of anxiety about current events] omg my aubrey gordon hold came in

they got gay bitches in this book??? alive gay bitches???

i forgot this play is deeply stressful

me when my wife gets mad at me for sending one of our children from england to india without asking: this is literally 1984

i forgot that this play evokes a very specific primal response in me where every time i read the stage direction "Enter Iago" i am filled with prehistoric rage

thinking fondly* of the time i was like "if you want a gay bitch in this story try emilia because iago is just racist" and someone got mad at me for implying that "only nice characters can be gay"

*😐

oh this is really good.

"When the time has come for affirmation, we are asked to believe not in the probable but in the palpably impossible: not that the lovers are worthy though misguided, but that they are semidivine creatures whose love has somehow managed to escape the bonds of time and space, and even of death. Whore or goddess, strumpet's fool or colossus: the play allows us no midpoint."

"The dalliance of Venus and Mars serves as an exemplum antithetical to that of Dido and Aeneas: if Aeneas reminds us of the nearly superhuman effort by which love can be subjugated to empire, Mars reminds us that even the god of war is susceptible to the power of love."

“In Julius Caesar and the major tragedies […] mythic personages are infinitely remote. The gods are usually evoked as a distant court of appeal, as participants in another realm, quite separate from that in which the protagonists act […] but in Antony & Cleopatra […] the characters themselves are on the way to becoming larger than life […] they will begin to encroach on the realm of the gods themselves.”

“Instead of Virgil’s splendid and godlike Augustus at Actium, we have Shakespeare’s efficient boy.” the phrasing of this is taking me out