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on MSND: "The adolescent boy who is a love object for both men and women is something Shakespeare will explore in his depiction of cross-dressing heroines later in his career: here, the desirable boy is kept in the margins. But his role seems to crystalize versions of impossible desire in the play, and their challenge, as here, to marriage."

javert was so crazy for dressing up like a beggar just to snoop on valjean. like what are you the witch from snow white

the way ppl talk about this book makes me furious. this book is about being a traumatized teenager aware that the world is very cruel and yet adults keep telling you meaningless cliche bullshit about the world that does not acknowledge your trauma or help you in any way but you have to pretend they're saying something really deep because teenagers have no rights

made it four years of college without rereading this but the post-graduation spiral of terror got me. shoutout to my best friend holden caulfield

this book doesn't even require suspension of disbelief if you remember it's set on long island. literally anything can happen on long island

i don’t buy into 90% of psychoanalysis but i do think it’s very funny to do it to kierkegaard

“The biblical story itself accepts the sacrificial frame as a fact of human existence, so that it envisions only a variation within this frame—an alternative victim—and not the abrogating of the sacrificial frame itself. … Why should we give the idea of sacrifice—in whatever form—a religious legitimation?”

guys i think i need to get real weird about biblical scholarship

“Although Christianity has dissociated itself from actual rites of child sacrifice, it has not denounced the theory of sacrifice … there has been little social pressure to rethink the idea of a religion of sacrifice. As a result, Christianity has legitimated the physical and psychic deaths of hundreds of thousands of children throughout the centuries.”

oh fuck em UP donald

restarted this and successfully cured my melancholia. thank you holling hoodhood

i cannot believe linda charnes and i convergently and separately evolved the hamlet cleopatra theorem of "does the interior self exist in this play" except she used helen as the other end of the line where i used cleopatra

on t&c:
“Cressida must bear the awareness that every step she takes toward Troilus seals her ‘fate’ as an artifact ... Her life is not only already over, but already written about, and repeatedly at that ... What she feels for Troilus is always contaminated by her knowledge of the future moment of betrayal.” ARGH!

"Thus, in the interest of making all Christians, including moderates and liberals, uncomfortable,"

word

if i said the things i wish for james dobson i would violate goodreads terms of service

“Cleopatra understands that the powerful attraction she holds for Antony depends on the extent to which their life together disrupts the role he is required to play in the imperious Roman master narrative” OKAYYYYYYY. THROWING UP!

“If Richard III embodies notorious identity in the deformed ‘person’ of Richard, Troilus and Cressida embodies the monstrous in the form of the play itself.” crazy line but also so true

guys i think the practice reading theory texts worked i feel so much less baffled by this than i did two years ago

if this lives up to the intro it's going to fuck hard

on comedy of errors: "The two Antipholuses and the two Dromios are separated situationally, but not in terms of their personalities: they exist as different people in plot terms, rather than psychological ones."

far be it from me to defend mormons but the way people talk about mormonism is some of the most "*seeing a very american problem in america* what are we, a bunch of asians?" shit ive ever seen

"AENEAS: Had I so good occasion to lie long / As you, Prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business / Should rob my bedmate of my company."

INNIT. shadow of dido haunting this play FOR ME ONLY

which could mean nothing

TWO times now that i've been like "oh that's the end. what a somber note to end on" AND IT KETP FUCKING GOING

have we considered billy budd is autistic (oblivious to people being pissed at him)

are you gay.

REAGAN AT THE SCENE OF HTE FUCKING CRIME AGAIN

does melville always sound like this

r&j chapter saying there's no indication of an age gap between romeo and juliet. i never lose

the chorus and the reputation of this play: this is about the glory of the English army and the king who is so cool 💗💖💗

scenes 1 and 2: so the church wants money so they found a loophole in the law, right—