Uni. Wheee.
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keire_ke#1: We are supposed to sort the garbage. We have appropriately labelled bins in the (ridiculously small) kitchen, and it is pretty obvious where what goes: rubbish, recyclables sans glass and glass. Simple enough. So what is plastic doing in the rubbish bin?
#2: The net is acting weird. A few times a day the connection just spaces out, sometimes taking the Y!M with it. No idea why that happens.
#3: Did I mention the kitchen is ridiculously small? There's ten of us! Alright, the room itself is probably edequate, but the fridge is not. Two and a half lettuces and it's crowded, sheesh!
#4: First lecture tomorrow. Starting off the year with the Renaissance, and as far as I'm aware will be finishing off with the Renaissance as well. Have Shakespeare: Return of the Author next term, and yes, that's the official module title. *grins*
#5: Speaking of Shakespeare, today I found "Complete Works of WS" for 5 pounds. *thumbs up*
#6: I signed up for Chinese. First class tomorrow. It ought to be interesting.
Hah, I finished the pictures for the GW calendar! Now I'll just have to put them together. Of course it now turns out that I did one piece in 200dpi instead of 300, but unless it's supposed to be insanely huge it should be okay. Could someone clarify that?
#2: The net is acting weird. A few times a day the connection just spaces out, sometimes taking the Y!M with it. No idea why that happens.
#3: Did I mention the kitchen is ridiculously small? There's ten of us! Alright, the room itself is probably edequate, but the fridge is not. Two and a half lettuces and it's crowded, sheesh!
#4: First lecture tomorrow. Starting off the year with the Renaissance, and as far as I'm aware will be finishing off with the Renaissance as well. Have Shakespeare: Return of the Author next term, and yes, that's the official module title. *grins*
#5: Speaking of Shakespeare, today I found "Complete Works of WS" for 5 pounds. *thumbs up*
#6: I signed up for Chinese. First class tomorrow. It ought to be interesting.
Hah, I finished the pictures for the GW calendar! Now I'll just have to put them together. Of course it now turns out that I did one piece in 200dpi instead of 300, but unless it's supposed to be insanely huge it should be okay. Could someone clarify that?
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Date: 2006-09-25 09:49 pm (UTC)one of my fave periods.
I can help.
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:02 pm (UTC)I'll probably need it. x.X
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:31 pm (UTC)just a lot more repressed than the exact same stuff you got in the renaissance plays.
richardson's fun, but my heart belongs to the brontes. (Emily especially) but the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester and Aphra Behn is good although Rochester is definitely not work safe.
but the russians, oh noone wrote literature like the russians. tolstoy, chekov, dosteyvski (sp?)
the first port of call for any renaissance study would be the history, for europe I recommend a book by David Ogg which is easy reading, esp the battle of Lepanto (for Othello mostly), look up the Italian wars, the war of the three henries, the french wars of religion (Marlowe was very inspired by this) and the faustbuch.
one of the best sets of essays on the period are actually on shakespeare by a man called G Wilson Knight called the Wheel of Fire (I think that's right, there's an essay in it called the othellow music) and the library will definitely have it
also see if you can find an essay by Rupert Brooke on Marlowe and Webster, it will most likely be in his prose.
that's a good place to start.
what books are you doing?
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:07 pm (UTC)I think it's spelled Dostoyevsky - alright, Crime and Punishment is good. But I'd still rather give the XIX century novel's a wide berth.
We'll be doing Marlowe's Dr Faustus, Tamburlaine and Edward II. Then there's Ben Jonson and Masque of Blackness. And Duchess of Malfi too. Plus some poetry.
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:44 pm (UTC)do you know about the alien conspiracy involving him, thomas kyd and john dee?
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 12:26 am (UTC)anyway one night he and tom kyd after a lot of wine saw a shape that they described as a "silver Salver" or dish in the sky and they mentioned this to known nutter and court sorceror john dee (I'll come back to him in a minute) who was fascinated by it.
all of a sudden Thomas Kyd (who wrote the spanish tragedy) is imprisoned and tortured about what the records don't say
he gets out long enough to have a chat with marlowe and then prompty dies of complications.
marlowe is "killed" a few weeks later in a bar room brawl in an argument over the bill, but he had spent the day in a private room with known members of the night society days before a list of charges were to be brought against him.
it gets better, a lot of theorists will argue you blue in the face that marlowe was shakespeare and shakespeare retired after the tempest because Marlowe had legitimately died.
You will hear that theory a lot (there is actually a linguistic backing for it too) especially as if the charges in question had been brought against him he would have been tortured and murdered by the state.
now John Dee is worth mentioning seperately because he had these two stones, one was white and one was black, he said the white stone allowed him to talk to angels and the black stone to the devil.
the black stone was later proved to be the headpiece of the Aztec god Quetzcatlipoco, the smoking mirror and devourer of souls who was said to speak through the stone. John Dee didn't know that.
if the "silver salver" did crash the way the theory says it was brought to Dee and would explain the sudden surge in technology in that period.
but that's the conspiracy.
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Date: 2006-09-27 10:17 pm (UTC)It's interesting. *grins* Thanks for sharing.
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Date: 2006-09-27 12:27 am (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A2577206
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Date: 2006-09-25 09:53 pm (UTC)btw... mmm yes, Simon is def in the level of hell...he's too damn lickable not to be :)
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:06 pm (UTC)Well, he seems to be a person who'd talk at the theatre. :D *needs a Simon icon*
Sosososo - when are you free? My Uni schedule is rather flexible.
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Date: 2006-09-26 04:46 pm (UTC)pretty much any day barring friday after work or if you fancy meeting up during the day, I can book one off for next week *hugs*
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 04:48 pm (UTC)Auxilary25248891@aol.com
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:32 pm (UTC)I'll be studying Asian Studies(China and Japan) and Philosophy when I return to school with a generous dose of English lit from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. And maybe a business minor to boot.
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:02 pm (UTC)Ooooh, that's sounds interesting!
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Date: 2006-09-26 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-26 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-26 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-26 11:23 pm (UTC)Glad things are working out.
And I wanted to thank you for sending me the Saiyuki scanlations. Yay! I haven't been able to read them yet, as I've been so bogged down in school stuff, but I'm looking forward to it. *nodnod*
*huggles back*
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Date: 2006-09-27 12:01 am (UTC)