Despite the fire alarm and the emergency exodus we had a profitable day exploring Shakespeare’s dramatic theories as argued and exemplified in his amazing Prologue to Henry V in which he calls to the heavens for a “Muse of Fire”! Listen to the audio of this adventure below: This was followed by a tutorial on…
Tag: Sonnet 146
Rilke The Duino Elegies Part 3
Our third Rilke seminar at the Aquinas academy began by looking at the following proposition and then at the same time pondering the relationship between this and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146. (click to view). Both Rilke and Shakespeare indicate that living in the face of death can indeed be a sober annihilation of all that is false…
King Lear and Sonnet 146
King Lear is a play that exposes the ways in which human beings are deeply alienated from themselves when they are totally identified with the demands of their egos. King Lear himself is such a character. It is only through the intense suffering imposed on him by rejection, amplified by his exposure to the elements…
Everyman- Review of National Theatre Live Production
As a group we went yesterday to see poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s new translation of Everyman with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and movement by Javier De Frutos. The original morality play called Everyman (written in the late 15th Century) was a play designed to remind people of their mortality. It was designed to…
Leo Tolstoy and the Search for Truth
Tolstoy was passionate about uncovering those aspects of a human being in society that prevented him or her making contact with something true or real. He saw people in the law courts, in families acting out a kind of public drama which put each person centre-stage, totally ignorant of the other. It was like a…
