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“‘How much do you know about Shakespeare,’ I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, ‘Not as much as he knows about me.’ Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.”

— Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life, by Arnold Weinstein (New York Times, Feb. 2016)

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softinvasions

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

You can't go home. This play has a particular care for and interest in its victims. The resident

inciting event is endless. tragedy is much more concerned with footnotes than it is with gods.

well acquainted with what happens afterward, storytellers claim they can't diverge from what's

written: resist. rage against what must be. tell a story about war without talking

about love. survive its aftermath. fail to find resolution. make this suffering

a home. There's no breaking this chain— fate, as always, gets its way.

Poetry assembled from the program of an Oresteia production. Nov. 2023.

cura-nectarea

kuutamosonaatti

Caravaggio (1986) | dir. Derek Jarman

allaboutmary

The May Queen of Mundelein college in Chicago places a veil and wreath of flowers on a statue of Mary in May 1945.

fairycosmos

every time i make a mistake im like theyre going to put me down like a sick dog

ot3

i don't smoke for the obvious reasons of not wanting to develop an addiction to nicotine but god do i so often feel the emotion 'i need a cigarette'.

mythosphere

"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.

ft-rj

boom boom boom boom i want you in my loom knit you into a sweater then sew it up forever

wolfythewitch

Odysseus sketch based on my favorite pottery art of him

weepingwidar

Lara de Moor (Dutch, 1969) - Spiller (2020)

thunderstruck9

Lara de Moor (Dutch, 1969), Spiller, 2020. Oil on canvas, 145 x 175 cm.

gatabella

Sophia Loren reading the poems by T.S. Eliot during the filming of The Pride and The Passion, Spain, 1957

coriolanusbutch

i hate when people criticise hamlet because the character hamlet is a bad person. like first of all he is not real. and what he is is a representation of grief. the whole point is that grief and depression make you angry and annoying and obsessive and self absorbed. they make you feel like you’re the only person in the world who feels the way you do. they make you take it out on others. hamlet is a manifestation of grief taken to the extreme. and not to assume things about the personal life of a guy who died 400 years ago but. shakespeare wrote hamlet after his son died. hamlet’s flaws were likely taken from his own grief. hamlet isn’t supposed to be a good person he’s supposed to show how unaddressed grief makes you fall apart and hurt people and it’s not always pretty