Final, Final

I read the blog you had suggested reading the other day about no one having time to read. I hear this all the time in my little realm of the world. It is not out of pleasure that I hear people having to read but as a necessity. Take my boyfriend and my best friend: my boyfriend only reads out of necessity and even then he steers clear. I've been trying to have him read The Giver but without much luck. My best friend on the other hand enjoys reading for pleasure but being in graduate school she has to read out necessity, but she seems to enjoy curling up with her DMV. I enjoy reading and will continue to push past my comfort zone into new genres and new authors.

I would like to finish by thanking Mr. Sexson for the fun filled year and teaching me that Shakespeare will always be around whether it is relating to the origins, the myth, of his writing, songs of rap and Sir Raleigh's pearls, his beautiful language, and even in popular culture. Shakespeare is found through the ages and always will be...

End of the Semester

Finally here...sort of just finals and then summer...so some time in the future a movie about the controversy if Shakespeare wrote the plays or was just someone who took credit...it looks interesting...
Hope everyone's summer is grand...I'm heading down to California for a good two weeks at the end of May

Poems

Found this website with poems connected to Shakespeare...

Click on the highlighted words above to check each of the websites out...

All Well that Ends Well

This play is obnoxious. It seems as if Shakespeare was having a try at feminism by doing the bed trick. Why would you want to be with someone that doesn't love you in return and the only way is if you get my ring and have my child but unlikely you will...In Measure for Measure a bed trick is also performed in a different manner instead of Isabella giving herself she switches places with Miranda. Who in the end begs for his life after he dumped her for breaking it off. It is all about money and that the play is just a bittersweet ending that guess its okay, we can get married since you full filled what I said. Again how obnoxious.

King Lear

James Earl Jones Perform

Click on name above...

Individual Presentations

All the individual presentations were enjoyable, my favorites:

The As You Like It rap song
The use of the Seven Deadly Sins
And that the majority on the first day of presentations were of love...

The Woods

I was thinking about what the woods meant to me coming from Butte, MT. I found that the woods meant two things to me. The first is out past Homestake Lake where a group of friends and me would play paintball. Lots of fun, just shooting the gun even. The second is out past the trestle. It is creepy. The trestle was an old railroad line that was owned by William Clark. There were many odd suicides and deaths over the years. I had went out there and played flashlight tag and walked up the hill to the top of the trestle.
I find that the woods in Shakespeare is a magical place that love seems to transpire. Such as in Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It. I was forwarded an email about these woods in Japan called Aokigahara Forest. A lot of suicides have occurred in the forest because of the increase in deaths Japanese workers walk the forest at least once a month. A speculation was made that people were entering and killing themselves based off an old Japanese story were two lovers enter the woods and commit suicide so they will always be together.