blah blah Lear

[fahye]

I need to reread Hamlet so that I can formulate some cohesive thoughts on it and Lear and how by the end of both plays you just wish the foreign power would invade and push all of the corpses of the main characters into a ditch somewhere and start a blessedly organised and sensible reign. I love how the King of France is a plot point whose only job is to fall in love with Cordelia, though God knows why anyone would. She's almost - almost - as bad as Miranda. These damn girls and their daddy-complexes.

Edmund is awesome. Edmund is my (anti)hero.

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What free time am I reading Shakespeare in?

That is a very good question.

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[littledust.livejournal.com]

Lear at the end of the play = Kelsey sobbing like a little girl.

The line about laughing at gilded butterflies gets me EVERY time.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

HEHEHEHEHE

EDMUND/LAERTES, I TELL YOU!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

*LOOKS AT YOU!

INTONES, HEART-BREAKINGLY* HAVE I CAUGHT THEE??

[fahye.livejournal.com]

BUT WHY? LAERTES IS NOT EVEN ALL THAT INTERESTING EXCEPT FOR HIS SISTER ISSUES.

What we need is the Shakespearean Bastards (meant more figuratively, but Edmund fits both shades of meaning!) society. Iago and Tybalt can join. I love Iago. Have you read Othello much? I forget.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it, but I know it, sure. (You know how it is!) I've seen the Kenneth B. and all that jazz. (Ohhh, Branagh. Why. Why.)

I THINK EDMUND/LAERTES WOULD BE GOOD BECAUSE LAERTES IS KIND OF LIKE EDGAR, YOU KNOW, AND EDMUND HAS SUCH INTERESTING EDGAR!ISSUES, AND HE COULD, LIKE, PROJECT. OK, IT'S A LITTLE BIT CRAZY.