I feel like there's a satirical reading possible. The way the SA transitions almost immediately to dudes making up, and the way proteus was instantly, ridiculously forgiven... struck me as comedic while reading. It did overall feel sophomoric in tone though
Fascinating.. This came up in my feed because I've been listening to the Voice Squad's version of 'Now Westlin' Winds' on repeat as I learn to sing it. They've changed a few words here & there from Burns original, but it's by far my favorite version. If you haven't heard it, check it out!
Came back to add- m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MLepjUHsNtA.html&pp=8AUB This is the version I've been enjoying. When they released it on an album, they titled it "Autumn Joy", which seems a bit odd considering the violent and gory bits..
Very glad to have found your video podcast. Chandler is a genius at creating atmosphere and memorable descriptions. He's infuriating at plot development (i.e., lousy) and I'm always amazed at the number of unnecessary corpses that pile up before the whole mess finally grinds to a halt. And yet, I will always gravitate to anything with his name on it. Again and again.
(Just as soon as doctor jekyll was going to drink the hyde potion until he heard his niece Kayla coming inside) Kayla: uncle henry? Doctor jekyll: sorry edward, it's going to wait, not with my niece around. (Goes downstairs and Rushes to the living room and sits in one of his chairs and grabs a book and reads it) (Kayla opens the door and closes and takes off her hooded cloak and hangs it up) Kayla: uncle henry, I'm back from my last day of art class. Doctor jekyll: I'm in the living room dear. (Kayla walks to the living room and sees her uncle in a chair, reading a book) Kayla: oh uncle henry, it feels so good to be home.
Interesting that Chandler fell back to the Philip Marlowe character in his later novels out of no other choice where I always thought he kept with the Philip Marlowe character out of choice and I thought it simple and brilliant marketing??!!!
I do always wonder why explorers like Darwin didnt just bring a couple male and females of the species back and breed them for eating? So you're going to kill and taste this animal there and then leave, and for possibly no other human either to get to eat that delicious _____ (turtle, dugong, etc)
I think you ga....I mean GUys are sniffing up the wrong gender trail when discussing Marlowe's orientation. Chandler didn't really like anyone, but I don't think that implies there is homo-eroticism lurking in the lake or in Chandler's psyche. His history (as much as I can decipher) contains no hint of repressed desires or thinly-hidden tendencies or behaviors. IF he were English (or even part English....he's not, wasn't his mother Irish?) we could consider some of the content "just your typically English male flirtation with acting gay, a la Hugh Grant", but that's not what we have. Chandler was very observant and paid a lot of attention to clothes and furnishing, but I think a much better case can be made that he simply didn't much like women despite desiring them. The misogyny label really does fit......sort of.
Marlowe is more victim than protagonist in this, more like a punch-drunk (and long-in-tooth) pugilist than a sacrificial lamb. He is unable to extract himself from the fabric being woven. Yes, he is a Hamlet character and no hero that most would recognize. He is standing at the end (and most others are dead), but to what end? We next see him even more tired, and not even Ann Riordan is present to give us hope. Merle is dumped in Kansas.
You guys love Chandler the way I do. Thanks. No one is like him. Many try to counterfeit him, but it never works. You can always tell which is the fake. Can't wait for your Long Goodbye recap.
Did you mention that in one of the stories used to splice and assemble the novel Kingsley WAS the murderer? Perhaps that's why there is that odd bit about the scarf.
"As log as it's a current and profitable issue that's being discussed it doesn't matter how it's written". wow! Spot on. You have summarized our current cultural situation. The world needs more people like you talking.
Hi, I just saw this video and I love your thorough analysis! I was wondering if you had any notes kind of summarizing your ideas; I'd love share them with my friends :). It's totally ok if you don't want to share, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated the vid!
Am doing my PhD on Plath's ecopoetics with a chapter on Plath's Skepticism to the Techno-Industrial. The conversations that your analysis opens up on AI are very helpful in nuancing the dynamics of my argumentations. Thanks.
I agree, best MacBeth I have ever seen. I feel like finally we are seeing what Shakespeare meant to show us and teach us from the cautionary tale. He (they) were so advanced wondering about "mental health issues" Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
How did Steggle deal with Joan using her maiden name long after she was married? Demonstrating that the text post-dated John's lifetime pretty much puts the final nail in the coffin of this centuries-old hoax.
Fiennes performance blew me away and surprised me too. I thought he portrayed a mentally fragile, possibly PTSD suffering warrior. The noises of planes etc. for me were the traumatic thoughts going through Macbeth’s head. Varma for me was superb too especially in the scene with Banquo’s ghost. I didn’t get the comedy of that scene though, rather the opposite being pity for a mentally tortured man’s (all be it an experienced killer’s) suffering. Ben Turner as Macduff was a standout performance for me too.
Thank you for your review. I thought the character of Macbeth was a little too jolly like Fiennes character from A Bigger Splash jumping in at times. I didn’t feel the angst of conscience that is central to this play. Fiennes and Varma were definitely dynamic together. Varma crackled and sizzled. The contemporary war sounds didn’t fit very well with the story plus they fought with machetes and we heard helicopters flying over head. Confused time periods. Machetes are older than swords too! Too much spectacle detracted from the gravitas of struggling conscience. Good vehicle for Fiennes and Varma though. - my two cents. If you live in Scotland you may like the war zone now take but this play is really more culturally bound and a bit of Scottish feel would have transported viewers in the US into a different realm more in keeping with the content of the actual play. I don’t really feel like watching or hearing scenes I see on TV these days. It doesn’t shine any mirror on me. Oh I forgot in addition to the captivating performance by the leads were the presentation of the witches. They seemed delightful.
The full vocabulary found in the First Folio did not exist in the English lexicon until the publication of Queen Anne's World of Words in 1611. Observations. 1.Shakespeare expresses the finest sentiments of the English people so he must have been born in England. 2.Shakespeare has an easy familiarity with all things Italian so he must have grown up in Italy. 3. Shakespeare must have known many languages to have included so many foreign words in the plays. 4. Shakespeare must have been a linguist to have added some 2,000 words to the English language. So who best fits this description? Four observations about John Florio who was born in England but grew up in the shadow of Italy. 1. A strong written dedication by Leicester's Men in First Fruits by Florio, they did not talk shop, that would have been gouache. 2. No one else in the entire nation of England had a large enough vocabulary to write the published version of the First Folio except for John Florio and he only had the words in 1611 with the publication of his bilingual dictionary. 3. The Lord Cranfield letter asking for money to finish his "great and laborious work" which could only have been the First Folio because he was doing no other work in1623. 4. Unique Florio words in the First Folio which would not be in common use for 100 years. This is not to say that Florio wrote the First Folio all by himself but he was part of the genesis of the plays with Leicester's Men, he may have contributed from the sidelines for thirty odd years and then he collected his favorite plays and revised and edited them for publication in retirement. No one else has the linguistic qualifications to have written the First Folio along with a cast of hundreds of collaborators, or the usual suspects as I call them. The word Enskied only appears in two places in the English language in Elizabethan England, one is in the First Folio, the other is in John Florio's 1611 World of Words. Where does Oxford use this word in any non First Folio written context? Oxford may have read Dante but where did he write Dante? How many words are credited as being added to the English language by Oxford or Sidney or Bacon? None, they were not linguist, Shakespeare was, Florio was and is credited with contributing more than 1,500 words to the English language. You keep trying to stick a square peg in a round hole by failing to look for a linguist as the real Shakespeare. So yes, you must first write a bilingual dictionary just to have the necessary vocabulary to be able to write the First Folio. A simple test, compare all of the written words of Oxford with all of the words in the First Folio to check for overlap of word usage. An AI program should do it. I still think Oxford and Sidney were the chief collaborators. So the real Shakespeare went to a paupers grave in a plague pit, the Brits do love their fake tourist traps. Truth will out.
Since Florio was writing a translation dictionary from Italian to English, what would have been the point of translating words Englishmen didn't know into OTHER words they didn't know? Being the first to put a word into print isn't the same thing as creating it.
@@Jeffhowardmeade I know it is. Yet I seem to recall that every time I suggested a word existed even though it was not yet in print, you told me it was standard practice to treat a word as if it did not exist before it can be shown to have been printed, which is like saying that the first person who printed is the person who created. Are you not taking both sides of the issue ?
I had the privilege of knowing Helen Vendler personally and in addition her extraordinary scholarship, she was a remarkably kind and down-to-earth person. She also had a fantastic sense of humor. Thank you for this kind tribute to her.
@@earreadthis5373her school is starting off with a movie. Not really my preferred intro to one of my favourite plays, but i guess they have to start somewhere. She studied Romeo & Juliette last year, but using a “ dumbed down” version. Hmm. Plus, she’s right in the midst of teenage angst. Fingers crossed she doesn’t take on Lady M’s persona.
Awesome! I just stumbled across your video, and I, like you, love anything about Shakespeare or Plath. I'm American and I hope you'll have a zoom option for your next book club. Do you have a website or something where I can get an email if it's possible?
Thats great to hear! No website yet but if you're on instagram I'm updating about the bookclub there - [at] earreadthis. Failing that I will make a quick video as soon as we have zoom capabilites!
@@earreadthis5373 Great! I'll keep an eye out for an update. I've heard some of your podcasts over the past week. I am glad to have found your channel. Great poetry analysis, and literature discussions on there. 😎☺
