![]() ![]() Medea, and the chorus of Corinthian women, do not buy his story. He believes he could not pass up the opportunity to marry a royal princess, as Medea is only a barbarian woman, but hopes to someday join the two families, with Medea as his mistress. Medea asks for one day's delay, and begins to plan the deaths of Jason, Glauce, and Creon, while Jason arrives to confront her and explain himself. The play opens with Medea grieving her loss and her elderly nurse fearing what she might do to herself or her children.Ĭreon, also fearing what Medea might do, arrives to send Medea into exile. The concentrated action of the play is at Corinth, where Jason has brought Medea after the adventures of the Golden Fleece but has now left her to marry the daughter of King Creon (elsewhere known as Glauce, and also known in Latin works as Creusa - see Seneca the Younger's Medea and Propertius 2.16.30). The play tells the story of the jealousy and revenge of a woman betrayed by her husband. ![]() King Creon of Corinth and Creusa, drawing of a Relief. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On Knight was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Sir Henry Irving took the chair, and Benoît-Constant Coquelin and Gabrielle Réjane were among the guests. On 4 July 1905 the dramatic profession entertained him, as the oldest living dramatic critic, to dinner at the Savoy Hotel. A bohemian and clubman, he was a leading member of the Arundel Club after 1883, when he was elected to the Garrick Club (3 March), he was mainly found there. In July 1883, on the death of Henry Frederic Turle, he became editor of Notes and Queries, and retained the position for life. Knight contributed the causerie signed "Sylvanus Urban" to the Gentleman's Magazine from 1887 till near his death, and he was a reviewer of general literature for the Athenæum. At Marston's house he met authors and playwrights Thomas Purnell introduced him to Swinburne, to whom and Dante Gabriel Rossetti he became close. Early associates included John Westland Marston and Sebastian Evans. In London Knight moved in literary and dramatic circles. ![]() Grave of Joseph Knight in Highgate Cemetery ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one of the great secrets kept between couples…The hunt for love is always on, and in some tragic, truthful, stunning way it forever eludes us.” No outsider ever knows the interior landscape of a marriage. ![]() The introduction tells us that “Crossing to Safety is a love story…in the sense that it explores private lives. The hunt for the Holy Grail of tenure and discussions of suitable academic work that will get tenure is one theme - poetry? novels? literary criticism? Each year the two couples get together at a summer family compound in Vermont owned by the wealthier couple. It’s an academic novel in a sense – both men start out as English professors at the University of Wisconsin in the difficult years of the late 1930’s – the end of the Depression, heading into WW II. The story follows two couples through life. Despite some dark passages, it’s a delight to read and I’m adding it as one of my all-time favorites. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kimmie is half Korean (her other half is unspecified) and Adam is Italian American Mateo feels disconnected from them, less American, and with worries they can’t understand. Mateo’s relationships with his friends Kimmie and Adam (a potential love interest) also suffer repercussions as he keeps his situation a secret. The adults around Mateo offer support to him and his 7-year-old sister, Sophie, however, he knows he is now responsible for caring for her and the bodega as well as trying to survive junior year-that is, if he wants to fulfill his dream to enter the drama program at the Tisch School of the Arts and become an actor. ![]() The Garcias live in fear until the day both parents are picked up his Pa is taken to jail and his Ma to a detention center. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents show up unsuccessfully seeking his Pa at his New York City bodega. Mateo’s life is turned upside down the day U.S. A Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. ![]() ![]() The undercurrent of the ocean kept expanding the ripples wider and wider and wider. Once they were done eating, they dived back into the ocean and created this ripple effect on the water. ![]() The other day, as I was contemplating on this poem, I watched the otters floating effortlessly on their backs on the Pacific ocean. I am transfixed by the question, “am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?” What if I am all three? Is it possible that all my life I have been morphing from one to another and to another without me knowing? I wonder how does it feel to transform from bones, muscles and feathers into water, lightning and strong wind and into a verse, chorus and bridge? What do you think? I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song? I circle around God, around the primordial tower. ![]() I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I like my girls to get as much of my cum in them as possible during their stay here, in their pussies, in their mouths, even bathing in it when the time is right. “That’s right baby girl, welcome to Valley Pine. “Are you serious?” she asked again softly. But whatever it is, my little girls get a dose of sperm with every meal, it keeps them strong and healthy.”Īnd instead of being grossed out, Melissa’s eyes shone bright, unsure still but titillated. Maybe the mayo for your ham and cheese sandwich will be semen-flavored. You might have bacon and eggs with cum, or a little cum in your milk in the mornings. All of your meals with be flavored with a little something from me. “Are you serious Daddy? This is your … semen?” she stuttered, almost unable to say it. The girl’s eyes went wide at that, her mouth ceasing all movement before audibly gulping. ![]() ![]() A man consumed with ambition and self-doubt, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most vital meditations on the dangerous corners of the human imagination.Īward-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom investigates Macbeth’s interiority and unthinkable actions with razor-sharp insight, agility, and compassion. ![]() ![]() Macbeth is a distinguished warrior hero, who over the course of the play, transforms into a brutal, murderous villain and pays an extraordinary price for committing an evil act. by Scribner.įrom the ambitious and mad titular character to his devilish wife Lady Macbeth to the moral and noble Banquo to the mysterious Three Witches, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s more brilliantly populated plays and remains among the most widely read and performed. All of the books were published in the U.S.A. Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind is the fifth and final volume in a sequence of brief books on “Shakespeare’s Personalities.” The first was Falstaff: Give Me Life, April 2017, and the others are Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air, October 2017 Lear: The Great Image of Authority, April 2018 and Iago: The Strategies of Evil, May 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Drama Prince, the 15 th novel in the series, Nicky, Noah, and their Treemeadow College theatre crew take their act on the road to a gay fairytale theme park in San Francisco, where they stage an original musical adaptation of Cinderella entitled, Let’s Ball. Reviewers called the series “hysterically funny farce,” “ Murder She Wrote meets Hart to Hart meets The Hardy Boys,” and “captivating whodunits.” One reviewer wrote they are the funniest books she’s ever read! Another said I’m “a master storyteller.” Who am I to argue? We watch them go from courting to marrying to adopting a child, all the while head over heels in love with each other (as we fall in love with them). The Nicky and Noah mysteries is a gay cozy mystery comedy series, meaning the setting is warm and cozy, the clues and murders (and laughs) come fast and furious, and there are enough plot twists and turns and a surprise ending to keep the pages turning (as Nicky would say) “faster than a Republican ex-president stealing secret documents from the White House.” At the center is the touching relationship between Professor of Play Directing Nicky Abbondanza and Associate Professor of Acting Noah Oliver. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only when Bobbie Lynn develops pneumonia does she reach out for the help they desperately need, only to discover that there really are angels all around, human angels, able and willing to give her family support. ![]() When her father is reported missing in action, her severely depressed mother does nothing but sleep, leaving the children to scrounge for food, forge notes to their teachers, and, ultimately, to spoon-feed her. Bobbie Lynn is frightened, at first, by Wendy's severely retarded twin sister, skeptical of her new friend's deep belief in guardian angels, and puzzled by Mrs. When their mother takes the children from Texas to Tacoma, WA, only Wendy Feeney offers the girl friendship. Grade 5-8-As army brats, 11-year-old Bobbie Lynn and her 13-year-old brother Mason have coped with unexpected moves and their mother's "delicate spells" before, but things get much worse when their father is sent to Vietnam. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing is simple between Gael and Jake, and their team investigation on a series of murders inside the enhanced community doesn’t help them much. Jake tries his best to be part of the team and earn their respect. Jake Riley is the new member of the H.E.R.O team, and he’s partnered with Gael. Deep down, Gael is hurt, traumatized and alone. He’s a member of the first enhanced team H.E.R.O. ![]() Tempers rise and loyalties are challenged, and when the serial killer targeting the enhanced finally sets his sights on Gael, not only will Gael have to trust Jake with his secrets, he might have to trust him to save his life. In a world where those with special abilities like Gael’s are regarded as freaks and monsters, it won’t be easy for him to rely on Jake to have his back, especially when the abilities of a vulnerable, enhanced, nonspeaking child make that child a murder suspect. The hurt and betrayal of his mom’s abandonment and his father’s fists are secrets buried deep beneath the ugly scars on his face, and he doesn’t trust Jake, his new regular human partner, with any of them. Gael Peterson has spent years hiding behind the enhanced abilities he wears like a mask, even though he is an important, confident member of the FBI’s exclusive H.E.R.O. ![]() |