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The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts | Thornton Wilder

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The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder (1942)

Premise: In this classic play, humanity is portrayed in microcosm as a conventional, suburban American family.

Review: I‘m often surprised by just how early the pastiche, sense of play, and erasure of the fourth wall that I associate with postmodern literature appears in the canon. Cont.

Mattsbookaday This play, written during the Second World War, is exceedingly weird and surrealist, in a way that is simultaneously brilliant and a bit off-putting. It‘s sad and cynical, but also silly and hopeful. It‘s certainly not for everyone, but it‘s a deserved classic.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3h

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Eggs

The Odd Couple: (female Version) | Neil Simon

#Duo

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

AmyG I loved this show. 4d

Leftcoastzen I loved this show too! 4d

dabbe Adored this show! Now I‘m singing the theme song in my head! 🤣 4d

Eggs @AmyG @Leftcoastzen @dabbe 🙌🏻🎶🤗 3d

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bibliothecarivs

Henry V: The Graphic Novel : Original Text Version | William Shakespeare

Random book from our home library:

📖 Henry V (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, edited by Claire McEachern

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Blueberry

The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare

The ultimate #Difficult relationship.
#DynamicDs

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 5d

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 5d

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dabbe

Macbeth | William Shakespeare

#aprilpoetrychallenge
#nationalpoetrymonth
@wanderinglynn

#find
#macbeth

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 7d

dabbe @TheBookHippie ♥️🖤♥️ 7d

wanderinglynn Fantastic! 6d

dabbe @wanderinglynn TY! 🖤♥️🖤 6d

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dabbe

The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams

#aprilpoetrychallenge
#nationalpoetrymonth
@wanderinglynn

#broken

lil1inblue 💙 🦄 💜 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue 🩷🦄🩷 2w

kspenmoll 💖💖 2w

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dabbe @kspenmoll 🩷🦄🩷 2w

wanderinglynn So sad! 😢💙 2w

dabbe @wanderinglynn 🩷🦄🩷 2w

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dabbe

The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Ben�t

#dynamicds
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloveofbooks

Definition of irony: the word “devil“ on Easter. 🤣

Eggs 🧡🖤💛 2w

dabbe @Eggs 🩵💙🩵 2w

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dabbe

Hamlet | William Shakespeare

#aprilpoetrychallenge
#nationalpoetrymonth
@wanderinglynn

#mostly 😏👀🤣

TheKidUpstairs 🤣🤣🤣 I love this! 2w

TheBookHippie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2w

dabbe @TheKidUpstairs TY! 🩵🤣💙 2w

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dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤣😍🤣 2w

TheBookHippie @dabbe STILL LAUGHING 😂 WE ARE READING HAMLET in senior English right now!! 2w

dabbe @TheBookHippie I don't know why, but I always thought of Gertrude in that way. Maybe because even her son lusts after her and basically calls her a whore? 🤣 2w

TheBookHippie @dabbe oh I agree! Bringing it to school Monday 😂😂😂😂 IB ENGLISH teacher is going to LOL 2w

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😍🤣😍 2w

wanderinglynn 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant! 2w

dabbe @wanderinglynn TY! 🤣😍🤣 2w

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Leftcoastzen

A Doll's House and Other Plays | Henrik Ibsen

#DynamicDs #Doll
I love Ibsen, maybe time for a reread !

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

dabbe Love this play! 😍 2w

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w

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Bookwomble

A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess

My posts have been sadly deficient of David Bowie for too long! 😄

Driving to work on Tuesday, I was amused when David came on my playlist singing the line:
💬 Where the fuck did Monday go?
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude #BooksAndBowie #BooksAndMusic
🎙️ David Bowie 🧑🏼‍🎤
🎵 Girl Loves Me
💿 Blackstar
📽️https://youtu.be/BFD4BMlka9Q?si=1lAX2Ne3LwH-4Tio

Bookwomble David's final album has several references to his back catalogue, and Girl Love Me expands on his use of Burgess's nadsat slang on Ziggy Stardust, with some polari thrown in for good measure. A dark, unsettling and catchy track 🖤 (edited) 3w

BarbaraBB Finally you‘re back to Bowie 😀 3w

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB We never left each other 😌💖 3w

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BarbaraBB Glad to hear that ❤️ 3w

TieDyeDude That lyric video did not help me understand the song at all, but I like the moody vibe 2w

Bookwomble @TieDyeDude No! 😆 Nadsat is Burgess's invented slang for Alex and his droogs in A Clockwork Orange, and polari is a working class cant developed to baffle the police, later adopted by the UK gay community before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the late '60s. (Sorry for the TED Talk!) The Genius lyrics site has translations 😊 https://genius.com/David-bowie-girl-loves-me-lyrics 2w

TieDyeDude @Bookwomble Wow, that is so cool. I'll definitely be digging into that soon 2w

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