“problem plays” this “romances” that I’m proposing new and exciting Shakespearean Play Groupings for your amusement!
The Bad Dad Triad: King Lear, Henry IV Part 1, Romeo and Juliet
The “My Wife’s A Floozy” Trifecta: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, the Winter’s Tale
The “Me And My Shitty Little Minion Are About To Fuck Up Your Shit Hardcore” Trilogy:A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, the Tempest
The Falstaffiad:Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor
The “Holy Fuck There’s Two of ‘Em” Saga:Twelfth Night, the Comedy of Errors
The “Dear Diary My Homoerotic Bullshit Has A Body Count Now” Series:Richard II, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus
The “Why Are The Fucking Trees Trying To Kill Me. Hate This Shit” Trilogy:Macbeth, the Winter’s Tale, As You Like It
A few more for the road. Why not
“Somebody Call Ghostbusters!”: Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Julius Caesar
“This Protagonist Sucks So Much Not Even In A Funny Way I Hate This Guy For Real”:The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew
“Kill Claudio. Many Such Cases”:Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Hamlet*
“Is It Really Shakespeare Unless The Protagonist Is Drenched In Blood 25/8? I Put It To You”:Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Coriolanus
“And Then Some Fucker Named Sebastian Got Shipwrecked And Caused Problems”:Twelfth Night, The Tempest
We passed a bill in committee yesterday that felonizes elected officials if they vote against Trump’s immigration policy. Let that sink in. Duly elected officials will go to jail- will have a criminal record- if they do not vote for and support Trump’s policies.
“A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through.”
Heads up everyone! This artist is selling prints of this piece for a fundraiser for incarcerated wildfire fighters working in LA currently and you can get a small one (8×10) for $50CAD or a large (16×20) for $100CAD including shipping. I just ordered a large one!
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