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Hamlet | William Shakespeare

I feel like our entire society would be SO much better if everyone did A LOT more of this. Just putting that out there.
#WilliamShakespeare #Hamlet

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Robotswithpersonality

Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman: 8 Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations Accompanied by Critical Essays | Robert Willoughby Corrigan

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It is done! Or at least as done as it's going to be from me. I picked up this collection for Euripedes' Medea, was happy to get Sophocles' Antigone in the bargain, and a bonus second Medea by Seneca. Euripides' Bakkhai is a wild time, The Oresteia is pretty familiar ground given the link up to Illiad characters. I wish there was more of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, but what there is extant of it is good. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I did Sophocles ' Oedipus the King, and didn't feel in the mood to do Seneca's Oedipus later. I did give the associated essays a try, but they focused more on the plays/play mechanics/playwrights than the stories/myths behind the plays, which are more my interest. Will definitely be seeking more scholarship on Greek myth, (only took 17 years after the Greek and Roman studies degree for me to recover my desire to do research on that topic) 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? especially through a modern feminist lens. Antigone and Medea's stories stand out because they exhibit female agency (Clytaemnestra's in The Oresteia is pretty short-lived 😬), and Medea in particular because she 'gets away with it'. Major themes (don't fuck with the gods, expect your family lineage's curse to haunt you in some way, nothing could be more heinous than killing family - except perhaps sleeping with them 🤢) exist throughout. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Medea makes for an interesting case because one seems to trump the other - her divine lineage is part of what makes it possible for her to kill and survive - for once no mention of the Furies...will definitely be looking up further modern retellings of her story. Don't get me started on Jason. 🙄
⚠️mentions of SA, suicide, gore, child death 3w

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AlaMich

Tragedy of Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare

Mailing our postcards today…
#idesoftrump

The one and only political post I have ever made or ever will make. (probably, but who knows?)

TheBookHippie Mine went out too. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4w

Aims42 Nice!! 👏👏👏👏 4w

AlaMich @TheBookHippie @Aims42 Gotta channel the rage somewhere!! 4w

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TheBookHippie @AlaMich agreed. 4w

dabbe #metoo! 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 Love the PINK! 🩷 4w

AlaMich @dabbe Thank you! We happened to have some pink cardstock left over from the scrapbooking years. 😊 4w

Amiable Excellent! 👍🏼👍🏼 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman: 8 Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations Accompanied by Critical Essays | Robert Willoughby Corrigan

Ah, yes, because knowing he's the arbiter of his eternal torment is definitely the way to get Prometheus to see Zeus in a more favourable light. 🫣

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TheKidUpstairs

Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine

Today's Monday Night Hockey is The Jets vs The Sharks. So now I have this stuck in my head: https://youtu.be/twbuT1V5mFE?si=OZWRSdfkL4zPu_v6

#TheatreNerdsUnite

ChaoticMissAdventures When you're a jet you're a jet all the way!! (I am not .. I am a Rangers fan 😂) 1mo

Bookzombie 😂😂 1mo

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TiredLibrarian

Hamlet | William Shakespeare

I saw part of the 1948 Olivier Hamlet last night, and it gave me the urge to reread this. It's been a few years, but it's one of my favorite Shakespearean plays. Nothing like a reread of an old favorite on a cold winter's night!

#Shakespeare #Literature #Hamlet

TheBookHippie My son is reading this in English currently. Had to dig mine out! 2mo

GingerAntics 🧡🧡🧡 This is a fav of mine as well 2mo

TiredLibrarian @TheBookHippie I first read it in HS too, and I liked it but didn't love it. I think I needed some more life experience to appreciate it. Funny how books can hit you differently depending on where you are in life when you read them! 2mo

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TiredLibrarian @GingerAntics Glad you love it too! ❤️ 2mo

TheBookHippie @TiredLibrarian oh I feel that way about so many books! 2mo

GingerAntics @TiredLibrarian I have some rather unconventional ideas about this play. You have no idea… and they all stem from the “choose your own adventure” version of it. lol 2mo

TiredLibrarian @GingerAntics I'm intrigued! 2mo

GingerAntics @TiredLibrarian by the choose your own adventure version of Hamlet or my crazy musings? lol 2mo

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Eggs

Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”

#IllicitLoveAffair

#FeelinThelove ❤️🧡💛

—Edith Wharton

dabbe Excellent one. 🩶💚🩶 2mo

Texreader Oooh great quote 2mo

MaGoose I read this book in college and loved it. It's on my list to reread. 🤎 2mo

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Eggs @dabbe @Texreader @MaGoose Wharton is a treasure 🌟 2mo

MaGoose @Eggs Agreed. I want to read more of her stuff when I get a chance 2mo

bookandbedandtea I've been meaning to read this forever and the absolutely beautiful cover on your version is encouraging me to do it soon! 2mo

Suet624 That looks like a happy little cover. It‘s not a happy little story. 🥴 2mo

Bookwormjillk Great pick. I love this book. 2mo

Eggs @bookandbedandtea I hope you enjoy 😊 2mo

Eggs @Suet624 True 2mo

Eggs @Bookwormjillk Me too 2mo

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Eggs

Romeo and Juliet (Updated) | William Shakespeare

In Ovid's "Metamorphoses," love and hate are deeply intertwined with the central theme of transformation. The plays A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pyramus&Thisbe)
and Romeo and Juliet (based on Metamorphoses) are more similar than they appear. Both, written at the same time, deal with forbidden romance and power and control. One play having a comedic end, while the other ends in tragedy, are partly the same tale with a different outcome.
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs #LoveHatePairing #FeelingTheLove (edited) 2mo

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Lunakay

Romeo and Juliet: Tragedies by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare

Happy Valentine's Day, dear Littens!

Since the Q1 theme is poetry, what better day to enjoy some sonnets or love poems! ❤️

How are the classics going for #classicschallenge 2025?

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Lunakay @Dilara @TheSpineView @BarbaraJean @AnishaInkspill @LapReader @AvidReader25 @BookBelle84 @Kristy_K 2mo

Dilara Good idea!

I read the first (7th c.) written version of Majnun Leyla earlier this year. I still have two later versions (medieval + renaissance) in my To Read pile.
Right now, I am reading a Kazakh contemporary poetry anthology. I don't know if the poems count as “classics“. They might be too recent for that as they were all written in the 20th c. but some of the authors have been deemed “postal stamp worthy“.

Arabic Love Poetry from the Desert: Majnun Leyla, Arabic Text, Commentary and Translations

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AvidReader25 I am in the middle of Swann‘s Way (my 1st Proust!) and finished The Pursuit of Love and Dickens‘ Hard Times. So far, so good! (edited) 2mo

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