Shakespeare Spatial Sequence
so i made a diagram thing— what is it? an arbitrary grouping of shakespeare plays? nope, it’s actually a synesthesia thing called spatial sequence! that basically means that sequences (numbers, time, the year, the alphabet, seasons of star trek, etc) are all arranged in a very particular way in my head. whenever i’m thinking about shakespeare plays, this visual will automatically appear in my head, and i can manipulate it and “travel” around it at will.
it’s also not fixed—as i become more familiar with different plays, it changes shape somewhat. the better i know a play, the more fixed its position becomes. for example, in the two “clumps” of plays i don’t know that well—those plays were difficult to place because they don’t quite have fixed positions for me. however, the henriad was easy to place, and the positions of those four plays on the diagram are very similar to how they are in my head.
this also isn’t perfect. merry wives is kind of difficult to place—it’s simultaneously next to henry iv pt 2, and somewhere around where king john or titus andronicus is. king lear is also difficult—it could be anywhere on the line from around richard ii to around as you like it. (idk why it’s so far away from the other tragedies. mostly the positions make sense, but sometimes they don’t.)
wow, that was longer than i thought it would be. hope it all makes some sort of sense…
i’ve actually written a lot about synesthesia on other sites (it used to be a major special interest), so lemme know if you’re interested i guess…
