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New thread, just so I could change the name.
Welcome all! Pour yourself your beverage of choice, lay back with a good book, and enjoy your time. Drinks are optional, but reading is not.
Copied from my first thread:
I'm an adjunct professor at our local community college, and I really ... ... order. :)
24. Ethical Judgment in Teaching - Karl Hostetler
25. Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
26. Othello - Shakespeare
27. Macbeth - Shakespeare
28. 1 Henry IV - Shakespeare
29. The Tempest - Shakespeare
30. The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare ... ... As a result, while I have read a lot of these in high school I only I had to read Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (twice), Othello, Speak and Man of La Mancha. I didn't mind Romeo and Juliet when I read it half way through the book because so many people didn't get Shakespeare (in the first ... ... I can already include in my list because I teach them: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Othello, etc. I really love my job.
Books marked with an asterisk are books I've read to my sons Brooks (2 in January) and Max (3 months in January). As part of my ... Changing Channels ("Play your roles"; Plays)
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Othello by Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
King Lear Just added half a dozen Shakespeare plays:
Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet - all Penguin Popular Classics 1994 editions, good condition, occasional creases/fading and some have names on the flyleaf.
Julius Caesar - Wordsworth edition, an old second-hand ... ... by Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Medea by Euripides
Trojan Women by Euripides
King Lear
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Pygmalion by GBS
Waiting for Godot by Beckett Category 10: Shakespeare
1) Henry V
2) Richard III
3) Twelfth Night
4) Romeo and Juliet
5) Hamlet
6) Othello
7) The Tempest
8)
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10) ... PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE, the film diary Michael MacLiammoir kept while playing Iago in Orson Welles' adaptation of OTHELLO. Fascinating thus far and I was stunned that our local library was able to snag it for me via the interlibrary loan process because you can't find copies of this ... SilverTome in Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Oct 11, 2009, 5:46pm) ... reading habits have become more sporadic as school has started up again, but I have been able to read some wonderful plays (Othello, The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, The Importance of Being Earnest) along with some books through my AP English class. 1. Give my Regards to Broadway- plays
Shakespeare
1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Othello
4. Taming of the Shrew
5. TBA
George Bernard Shaw
1. Fanny's First Play
2. How He Lied to Her Husband
3. You Never Can Tell read 12-09-2009
4. Pygmalion
5. And ... ... tragedies. I really am quite sure i never had a college lecture leave me in tears as her final (of 4) lectures on Othello did the other evening while driving home from work. The list wouldn't be complete without someone mentioning Iago from Shakespeare's Othello. Othello wins by a mile. It's one of my favorite Shakespearean tragedies. ". . . one who loved, not wisely, but too well."
Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost? ... he wouldnʻt think of calling Antonio "thou", any more than Antonio would think of calling him "you".
Similarly, in Othello, Iago calls Roderigo "you", but Roderigo calls him "thou",even though Iago is the dominant one in this situation. Roderigo is apparently of higher social class, ... ...
1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
2. Salome by Oscar Wilde
3. The Tempest by William Shakespear
4. Othello by William Shakespear
5. Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennesse Williams
6. The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams
7. Death of Salesman by Arthu ... Before You Go* by Jerome Weidman
*novel. Prosaic sounding title, but taken from
Othello ... I would also like have done Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet for the Shakepeare sections, rather than what I got, which was Othello and Julius Caesar. ... Gatsby in school, which is one of the reasons I'm reading it now. I remember lots of Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona), The Bridge to Terabithia (this one really stuck in my head), Emma, Z for Zacharia, ... ... that I studied in high school myself, thus perpetuating the cycle...
Novels - To Kill a Mockingbird
Shakespeare - Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
Poetry - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But there are many more that have fallen by the wayside because of syllabus/school bookroom ... ... is!
Will be finishing up The Scarlet Letter soon and might just throw a party to celebrate. Then, will be moving on to Othello. ... Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Shyloc k in The Merchant of Venice (Shk.)
Othello and Iago in Othello (Shk.)
Cassius and Marc Antony in Julius Caesar (Shk.)
Sir Epicure Mammon and Pertinax Surley in The Alchemist* (Jonson)
Mulciber (=Hephaestus/Vulc ... ... gift, my brother and sister-in-law got tickets to the production touring with Ian McKellan two years ago. *sigh*
Othello has been filmed several times to interesting results--there's a production done by Orson Welles which was remastered and is visually quite stark; there's one with Ia ... ... really enjoyed them, Medea was more readable by Antigone was just as interesting... now I have to write the essay!
8. Othello by Shakespeare
Read this one for English Adv, what more can you say about it? It's Shakespeare, of course it was good.
9. Dracula
Read this one for English Ex ... I'm happy to see you enjoyed Shakespeare! Othello is one of my favorite plays, and there are some interesting film versions out there. Now I have an itch to go back and reread Much Ado About Nothing. ...
Ewww. Bliahh yukk oh no kill me now arghhh. Did I mention ewwww? Depressing. Boring. Unoriginal. Dated. Sheer agony.
38. Othello by William Shakespeare ★★★1/2
Enjoyed much more than I would have expected. The only play of Shakespeare's I had read before was Romeo and Juliet and I was ... #50--Sure, but! What are you most interested in starting with? Histories (not very accurate but beautiful speeches and often twisty plots); comedies based on gender (either love-hate matches or mixed twins most common); tragedies (and lots of dead people on stage at the end but a fortifying speech ... ... to compare and check out. I "cheated" my way through a high school class by not reading Hamlet and getting an okay for Othello because I knew the play from shows and discussions. When I worked years later for a Shakespeare theatre, I read all the plays in the canon, even the disputed ones, ... I haven't read Othello but I have read Taking on the Big Boys
I haven't read A Comedy of Errors but I have read Othello. ... -- have already been mentioned)...
Licorice by Abby Frucht
Momo by Michael Ende
Nocturnes by John Connolly
Othello by William Shakespeare
Poplorica by Martin J. Smith
(granted, this one has a lengthy subtitle) ... Games. 384 pages. 4.2.09.
32. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Fantasy Lover. 352 pages. 4.4.09.
33. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. 99 pages. 4.5.09.
34. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Night Pleasures. 336 pages. 4.6.09.
35. Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Night Embrace. 416 ... ... little reminder to myself -
Pending reviews:
♠ The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories by Michel Faber
♠ Othello by William Shakespeare
I'm starting exams next week though (exam period will last three weeks) so I'm not sure when I will have the time to review them. Hopefully ... >151 Carolyn I'm actually reading Othello at the moment! My edition is a big, heavily annotated one and I need to read it for my Shakespeare exam. (as well as "As You Like It" and "The Merchant of Venice") It's a real pain to get through it what with all the footnotes, explanations, ... ... more Rumer Godden suggestions.
#147 Linda
Thanks for the link to the picture. It's wonderful. I instantly thought of Othello--one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I can see why you love it! ... choices with different consequences.
The book has been compared to Heart of Darkness in reverse. It also references Othello. It is a very short, very well written story that presents the dilemma of change and growth using outside cultures, and does so on a human level. You can see the ... ... to do so in time to prevent tragedy.
The book has been compared to Heart of Darkness in reverse. It also references Othello. It is a very short, very well written story that presents the dilemma of change and growth using outside cultures, and does so on a human level. You can see the ... ... mold - after all, his male characters are all very different, and so his female ones should be too. One other thing about Othello - Emilia is certainly a very different woman than Desdemona. She defies her husband and speaks up for what she believes is right - but then she dies too!! I ... ... be treated, etc., we may fall back into those ways.
That said, I just commented on another thread about how much I hate Othello, because of the character of Desdemona and her role as the slavish wife - so maybe I should listen to my own rant!! **********SPOILERS!!!***********
I absolutely despise Othello! It's not that I think it isn't a masterpiece - it is - it just really, really bugs me. I hate Desdemona - actually, I don't think hate is a strong enough word! She is such a traditional, perfect little wife, ridiculously ... ... novel.
The Kindle version is in desperate need of a good grammatical editor!
33. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. 99 pages. 4.5.09.
Shakespeare's Othello is a captivating examination of jealousy, human inconsistency, gender ... Shakespeare's Plays
1. Macbeth
2. Antony and Cleopatra
3. Othello
4. The Taming of the Shrew
5. The Tempest
6. Much Ado About Nothing
7. The Merry Wives of Windsor
8. All's Well That Ends Well
9. King Lear I have gotten hugely behind in listing my reading.
Print book # 6--total #8 Othello by William Shakespeare. Part of my challenge to read more classics, and Shakespeare in particular.
Print book #7--total #9. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde.
There were some laugh out ... ... here, although I think I finally have my catagories updated as to what I've read so far.
Since my last post, I've read:
Othello
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen
Flying changes by Sara Gruen
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table by Jeffrey Kottler ... 18. Othello by William Shakespeare
19 ... ... src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd137/debspeare/Book%20Covers/th_Othello.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" >
Othello by William Shakespeare
 Cariola in Club Read 2009 : Talbin's 2009 Reading (Mar 6, 2009, 12:21pm) ... adaptations that change the language entirely. This was after showing a few excerpts from O, a teen version of Othello with Josh Hartnett and Mykeel Williams. Even though I showed clips from the McKellan and Olivier versions, students kept referring to the main characters as O and D ... ... than I'd ever realized in high school.
For instance, try Ania Loomba's Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism alongside Othello.
Learning more about what 'a Moor' meant back then (the racial and sexual and religious issues bound up in the image) and then thinking about how that figure's ... ... that opportunity.
I'm not sure which Shakespeare play is my favorite. King Lear is up there, as is Richard II and Othello. I also like a lot of the comedies, but then who doesn't?
And I think seeing the play is so important to understanding it. And King Lear is definitely my favorite of the tragedies. I'm considering this one as well; I'm getting pretty tired of Othello. I wish more students responded as you did; most of them just see it as a play about a senile old guy, and it doesn't move them--not even the Olivier version. I could quote my favorite line from Othello to tell you what I'm dealing with this weekend, but I won't.
I'm taking a CPR and first aid course today.
Tomorrow will probably be about helping son to pack and move. Are all 19 (almost) year old boys this casual about huge changes? Driving me ... >7
I'm not denying that. I'm only saying that if a person were to ask about the subject of constitutional law and civil service law, a plausible (and accurate) answer would be, "government."
Like I said above, that's no reason to move them from the "Law" category to the "Government & Politics" ... ... Ledbelly (lecturer at Queens), the dastardly and villainous Professor Claude Night, and various sordid characters from Othello THE Moor of Venice and Romeo and Juliet
The plotline: Change the course of Constance’s, Desdemona’s, and Juliet’s fates
The text between ... ... it's true that we're not 'ready' to enjoy some of the classics (although other A level books were The Canterbury Tales, Othello and The Return of the Native all of which I loved). I'd be interested to know your impressions though.
I'm currently reading and enjoying Now You're One Of Us ... ... Dream illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Boardman Robinson's King Lear--to craftsmanlike but uninspired--Robert Gibbings' Othello drawings. On the whole, I have never seen a better illustrated Shakespeare, as is to be expected since the range of artists represented the cream of mid-20th ... ... MacDonald's play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). If you've read a bit of Shakespeare, particularly Othello and Romeo and Juliet, you will find this play funny. ... already covered Trifles (which was new to me), and next on our list is Oedipus the King.
We will also be covering Othello and Waiting for Godot (my favorite play), although I intend to go back to some of my Renaissance favorites simply for pleasure.
Are there any other drama ... ... to the original work, because I will need all the help I can get for Shakespeare.
1. The Merchant of Venice TBR
2. Othello TBR
3. As You Like It TBR
4. Romeo and Juliet TBR
1001 Books Read in 2009- So far I've read-
1. Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway 1/09
2. One Day ... Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Othello in Othello, and Ophelia in Hamlet.
I'm sure there are more I've forgotten.
ETA - That's what I get for taking too long to post - Mountebank beat me to it. Ah yes, Antony and Cleopatra. ... Room Table by Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson
7. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
6. Othello by William Shakespeare
5. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
4. What is the What by Dave Eggers
3. Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Ta ... ... audiobook 4 stars finished 5/27/2009
4.Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Not on the 1001
5. Othello by William Shakespeare finished 2/28/2009
6.currently in progress Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
7. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley ... Othello by William Shakespeare
Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Quick and Delicious Breads by Johna Blinn
Restoree by Anne McCaffrey
Selected Letters of Cicero by Cicero 4 nearly new beauts from Bookmooch today:
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Thinks by David Lodge
Othello by you know who
The Rise and Fall of Athens by Plutarch
And then a splurge at a second-hand bookshop. I won't be going back for a while!
5 Virago Modern Classics:
My Frie ... ... think I've reread any either, except to teach them to my own students - Playing Beatie Bow, To Kill a Mockingbird, Othello - thus perpetuating the vicious cycle :)
By the way, does anyone know of a Sydney bookcrosser who drives a blue Holden station wagon? 'Cause it made my day this ... ... I mean no disrespect to The Bard his Plays and Sonnnets are forever. They still make movies out of Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew and all the others too. And of course High Schools everywhere still put on their own versions of Shakespeare's Plays. But ... 55. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Ah, I liked this so much better than Othello. ... The First Men in the Moon, Dead Cert, Bonecrack, They did it with Mirrors, Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul,Othello, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Short Stoies by Ernest Hemmingway. ... also belongs in class. Let's face it, very few people are going to spontaneously start reading Shakespeare's work. Teaching Othello or Romeo and Juliet in a class shows kids that there is a beating heart in these dusty old stories. The language isn't as daunting as it may first appear, and ... Finished Othello. My next Shakespeare will be As You Like It and my next Dailylit book will be Sherlock Holmes.
The Quickie is progressing nicely. I should have it finished tonight or tomorrow. Then I will push the focus back onto the Case for Christ, followed by The Secret Life of Bee ... (Plays) 2. Othello by William Shakespeare
Continuing on with reading the complete works of Shakespeare, I have finished Othello which is one I have never actually seen live.
Another tragedy about love lost, deception, murder, and somewhat similiar in the end to Romeo and Juliet.
... 54. Othello - William Shakespeare
And now the fun part...writing five pages on it. ... in English class. All four years we read one of Shakespeare's tragedies (first Romeo and Juliet, then Macbeth, then Othello, then Hamlet. A lot of my high school teachers were, for some reason, against using the Romans and Greeks. The all-time worst book I've ever read was in 11th ... ... Women
A Little Princess
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Sherlock Holmes stuff
Romeo and Juliet
Othello ...
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
6. Life on the Mississippi
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Notes from the Underground
9. Othello
10. Anna Karenina
... if we never stepped forward on our own) and put on impromptu performances in class. That brought classic works like Othello and A Streetcar Named Desire to such vivid life that even many of the most reluctant students found themselves interested, amateur acting or no.
In other words, ... 25) Othello by Shakespeare. Excellent, smoldering story, a lot of emotion contained in a small space. Iago is definitely in the top 3 most evil characters in literature. The whole play is quite disturbing, with its surprisingly seamless blend of sex and violence. always worthwhile, though, ... 83. Othello - William Shakespeare ... Redekop
25. Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
26. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
27. In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
28. Othello by William Shakespeare
29. Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged by Vincent Sakowski
30. Rape - A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
31. The Gum Thief by Do ... ... Ethiopian Tale by Heliodorus
8-Apollonius, King of Tyre
Shakespeare:
9-Titus Andronicus
10-Coriolanus
11-Othello
12-As You Like It
13-Measure for Measure
14-The Comedy of Errors
15-Richard III
16-Henry V
17-The Winter's Tale
18-Pericles, Prince of Tyre
19- ... ... Ethiopian Tale by Heliodorus
8-Apollonius, King of Tyre
Shakespeare:
9-Titus Andronicus
10-Coriolanus
11-Othello
12-As You Like It
13-Measure for Measure
14-The Comedy of Errors
15-Richard III
16-Henry V
17-The Winter's Tale
18-Pericles, Prince of Tyre
19- ... Finished Othello (Norwegian edition, my tag: World Library) ... is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
W. Shakespeare: Othello
Act 3, Scene 3 ... Start reading book V 'The Dead Hand' in a day or two.
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Also reading: Othello by W. Shakespeare (Norwegian edition)
and a Norwegian non-fiction book: 'Opera! En håndbok'.
Plan to read: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut (English paperback, ... Drama on 3 20:00 to 22:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long). Othello, by William Shakespeare. A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, featuring an award-winning performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role as the jealous Moor Othello, alongside Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago. When the ... ... the Choristers and Organist: James Lancelot.
Then, of course, Drama on 3 20:00 to 22:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long). Othello, by William Shakespeare. A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, featuring an award-winning performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role as the ... Drama on 3 tomorrow (and presumably available for 7 days after broadcast) is Othello. The following is from the web page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/lo0mw/):-
Othello
Sunday 4 May 2008 20:00-22:45 (Radio 3)
By William Shakespeare.
A production from London's Donmar Warehou ... ... specifically. I actually had to stop reading for awhile after starting and abandoning several books.
So, I've read:
Othello - and saw a performance as well
Late Innings by Roger Angell - excellent baseball book even though it's over 25 years old
kjellika in 50 Book Challenge : kjellika's reading 2008 (Apr 23, 2008, 5:43am) Essay, Othello Plan to read:
Othello (in Norwgian, tag: World Library). I dunno, but it reminds me of a brilliant (nachrally) essay I wrote at uni about illusion and delusion in Othello and A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was fun. Those uni days were good days... sigh... ... professor and another a lawyer, and kept them for dinner in order to discuss the case. At the table, they discussed Othello, specifically how the case might play out legally in New York at that time. Archie didn't relate the whole discussion, of course, but it was an interesting choice ... Ah yes. Something always happens in the moors. Like that Hound of the Baskervilles.
Or to the Moors. (snuffle. Poor Othello) ... portrayals and how they each person impacted on the others.
I've also decided to change my list a little - instead of Othello I'm going to read Troilus and Cressida - I think it'd be interesting to compare with the Chaucer version (if I can get my hands on it that is - I know it's out ... My 16 yr old daughter was disappointed that Othello didn't make the cut. Hamlet is the only Shakespeare.
Imagine how hard it must have been to make this list! It's not surprising that many people disagree. For those of you who would add a book....what book would you remove? ... Walker fiction
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman mystery
The Charles M. Russell Book by John Willard non-fiction
Othello by William Shakespeare fiction
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare fiction
Lord of Misrule by Christopher Lee non-fiction
Fiction: 21
Mystery: 3 ... ... of Azkaban to my son. With my ninth graders I'm reading Night. And finally with my eleventh graders I'm reading Othello. Shakespeare covered so much more than Tolkien. Othello and The Merchant of Venice, just for a few examples, hit areas of the human experience that I don't see in Tolkien.
In a physical fight: well, I wouldn't back Will.
And hobbits are harmless. (Aren't they?) ... mpernel
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hucklebe ... ... Stove and Other Stories published in 1924
Merry Animal Tales: A book of Old Fables in New Dresses published in 1918
The Yale Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello and The Moor of Venice published in 1947
Merry Animal Tales is an early reader with "teacher suggestions" in the back!
**t ... ... Stove and Other Stories published in 1924
Merry Animal Tales: A book of Old Fables in New Dresses published in 1918
The Yale Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello and The Moor of Venice published in 1947
Merry Animal Tales is an early reader with "teacher suggestions" in the back!
* ... ... From the Madding Crowd, Romeo and Juliet, An Inspector Calls, To Kill a Mockingbird, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Othello (which was sort of an optional extra, but I thought it was great!), Great Expectations, A Streetcar Named Desire and Hamlet. And obviously we did some poetry. ... 67. Othello
I can't believe I forgot to put this one on my list. I read it for my English class sometime last month. Finished The Folger Library Edition of Othello. Can't say it was one of my favorites. Iago's motivation seems out of line with his actions and Othello changes too completely in just two days. But then Shakespeare was a working playwright with deadlines and not his eye on being enshrined by the ... ... tonight. Only 60 pages but looks intriguing. Beautifully made book. Tomorrow I will start the Folger Library edition of Othello. ... Trainspotting
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Voldemort
Annie Wilkes from Misery
Injun Joe from Tom Sawyer
Iago from Othello
Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
Norman Bates from Robert Bloch’s Pyscho
Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Hig ... ...
I still have two on my list. The Churchill one and Gone With the Wind. GWTW is one I dread picking up. I've also added Othello to my list. ... Man for All Seasons--not a good man wronged so much as a religious zealot who didn't hesitate to persecute others.
23. Othello--William Shakespeare
24. The Piano Lesson--August Wilson
25. Oleanna--David Mamet
Again, rereads for class prep. The students loved to hate Ol ... February
11. The Glass Menagerie--Tennessee Williams
12. Richard III--William Shakespeare
13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--Tom Stopppard
14. The Merchant of Venice--William Shakespeare
All rereads for class prep. It had been some time since I read R&G ... I'm starting late, as I just joined LT about five weeks ago, but, fortunately, I keep a book journal and can list what I've read so far in 2007. Pleas post you comment on any of my books--I'd love to talk about them!
January
1. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman ... ... myself I am going to rent a couple of film versions this summer, but I have to read the play first. I'm starting with Othello. Before I get to that though, I am reading four books which I randomly pulled from my four different TBR shelves. As long as I'm reading and making progress, I'm ... ... begins to fill an entire year with Shakespeare and Shakespeare-related books.
Here I go! Wish me luck!
Today: Othello (Sourcebooks Shakespeare)
Last week: The Tempest (Folger) ... for me). And #14, we never got to read any of Shakespeare's comedies for class -- only tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth.
I guess the logic was that high school was a tough time, and teenagers are morbid, so they'll appreciate all of these miserable ... Iago is named after . . . well, Iago, the villain from Othello. His now deceased sister was Isabella from Measure for Measure (but we're not saying he murdered her). Othello is the benchmark standard of jealousy; Bertie considers that Stilton, who thinks Bertie wants to steal Florence from him, is even more jealous than Othello. ... Live, Love and See by Naomi Wolf
Lytton Strachey By Himself edited by Michael Holroyd - which I got for 50p!!!
Venice - Tales of the City - An Anthology by Michelle Lovric.
I also bought three little books from Past Times (in honour of my mother):
Mothers and Daughters ... This morning on my trip to B&N, I picked up...
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
and Mao : The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Then later, I headed ... ... ry
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
William Shakespeare - Othello
Jung Chang - Mao : the unknown story
Membership discounts rule. #99 MrsLee - My high school experience sounds very similar to yours. We did read Hiroshima, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet in high school and Great Expectations in junior high. I read alot on my own, but I don't remember any more required reading other than excerpts in textbooks. Surely ... ...
Sing-Song
When We Were Very Young
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Julius Caesar
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Othello
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Tale of Two Cities
MacBeth
ugh..wish I could remember the rest.. :(
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