Shakespeare
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Some thoughts on Love's Labors Lost over the years. Perhaps a consensus?
http://www.fandm.edu/x9633.xml
And, of course, someone beat me to it. Nevertheless, I shall eclipse her.
The project was back in the halcyon days of irresponsibility, reading through all the Shakespeare I had missed out on in college and high school. I wrote it in the first flush of romantic love for my wife, when we were "a-courting", and, aware that the harshest critics of love literature are those who aren't currently in love, I shall rewrite the play before I publish it through Lulu. I want to include about twenty Shakespearean sonnets (or maybe more) at the end, as well as an essay on Why Read Shakespeare? and another introduction to Love's Labors Lost (an attempt to revive appreciation for this neglected play). Who knows? I may also get some commentary from Dorothy Louise, who also wrote a sequel.
The original play is half a play (a long play halved), and deserves a finish. My sequel envisions a real change in the Romantic Lovers, who return after one year much the wiser for their travel through the world and their vows of poverty. The sequel deceptively picks up where Shakespeare left off, with the women in command, but is actually an inversion of the first, for it is the men who will set the tone of the second sequel - humbled and wiser, and therefore deceptively submissive to the will of the women. Dumaine, in fact, is seriously ill with melancholy, and the sequel hinges around his religious depression caused by the evil he has witnessed in the world and his crisis of faith. Although the women get their wish, seeing their suitors reduced and humble to their vow, it is more than they have bargained for.
I have retained the comedy of the first, but tried to temper it into something more like its better self. You have to go to hell before you get to heaven.
The entire book is a Festschrift to Romantic Love, which is not a bad thing, maybe the best of things, when it is transformed into Realistic Love based upon character and vows. Thus, the men have transformed into those who keep their vows and even small promises given offhand, even if it means losing their lady.
http://www.poster.com.pl/shakespeare.htm
http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/NSC%20large%20images/poster4.html
Some thoughts on Love's Labors Lost over the years. Perhaps a consensus?
http://www.fandm.edu/x9633.xml
And, of course, someone beat me to it. Nevertheless, I shall eclipse her.
The project was back in the halcyon days of irresponsibility, reading through all the Shakespeare I had missed out on in college and high school. I wrote it in the first flush of romantic love for my wife, when we were "a-courting", and, aware that the harshest critics of love literature are those who aren't currently in love, I shall rewrite the play before I publish it through Lulu. I want to include about twenty Shakespearean sonnets (or maybe more) at the end, as well as an essay on Why Read Shakespeare? and another introduction to Love's Labors Lost (an attempt to revive appreciation for this neglected play). Who knows? I may also get some commentary from Dorothy Louise, who also wrote a sequel.
The original play is half a play (a long play halved), and deserves a finish. My sequel envisions a real change in the Romantic Lovers, who return after one year much the wiser for their travel through the world and their vows of poverty. The sequel deceptively picks up where Shakespeare left off, with the women in command, but is actually an inversion of the first, for it is the men who will set the tone of the second sequel - humbled and wiser, and therefore deceptively submissive to the will of the women. Dumaine, in fact, is seriously ill with melancholy, and the sequel hinges around his religious depression caused by the evil he has witnessed in the world and his crisis of faith. Although the women get their wish, seeing their suitors reduced and humble to their vow, it is more than they have bargained for.
I have retained the comedy of the first, but tried to temper it into something more like its better self. You have to go to hell before you get to heaven.
The entire book is a Festschrift to Romantic Love, which is not a bad thing, maybe the best of things, when it is transformed into Realistic Love based upon character and vows. Thus, the men have transformed into those who keep their vows and even small promises given offhand, even if it means losing their lady.
http://www.poster.com.pl/shakespeare.htm
http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/NSC%20large%20images/poster4.html
posted by Matthew C Smallwood | 4:24 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks, Grace. You get your complimentary free copy when it's all done with, since you helped test it. I need to rewrite a lot of it, but I think the plot will stay basically the same.
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