Cantorion Colin Jones
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
March 15 - The Ides Of March
Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Shakespeare borrowed this scene, along with other details of Caesar's demise, from Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar. An English translation was readily available, but its precise phrasings weren't quite dramatic enough for Shakespeare's purposes. Where he has the soothsayer declaim, "Beware the Ides of March," the more prosaic original notes merely that the soothsayer warns Caesar "to take heed of the day of the Ides of March."
Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19
E Notes - Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare never published any of his plays and therefore none of the original manuscripts have survived. Eighteen unauthorised versions of his plays were, however, published during his lifetime in quarto editions by unscrupulous publishers (there were no copyright laws protecting Shakespeare and his works during the Elizabethan era). A collection of his works did not appear until 1623 ( a full seven years after Shakespeare's death on April 23, 1616) when two of his fellow actors, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work and published 36 of William’s plays in the First Folio.
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Shakespeare borrowed this scene, along with other details of Caesar's demise, from Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar. An English translation was readily available, but its precise phrasings weren't quite dramatic enough for Shakespeare's purposes. Where he has the soothsayer declaim, "Beware the Ides of March," the more prosaic original notes merely that the soothsayer warns Caesar "to take heed of the day of the Ides of March."
Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19
E Notes - Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare never published any of his plays and therefore none of the original manuscripts have survived. Eighteen unauthorised versions of his plays were, however, published during his lifetime in quarto editions by unscrupulous publishers (there were no copyright laws protecting Shakespeare and his works during the Elizabethan era). A collection of his works did not appear until 1623 ( a full seven years after Shakespeare's death on April 23, 1616) when two of his fellow actors, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work and published 36 of William’s plays in the First Folio.
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Best Life Advice from Jack Kerouac
Flavorpill: The Best Life Advice from Jack Kerouac - Today would have been legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac’s 90th
birthday, had he not passed away at the age of 47 due to cirrhosis
How great-looking was he? So sad he gave his life away.
How great-looking was he? So sad he gave his life away.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Testing Windows 8
Lots of new stuff to learn – Right now I see that there ae oodles of apps to choose from… Onward
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Clover Adams
I'm reading Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra - Otto Friedrich also wrote a biography of the Adams' marriage - The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams
Here is Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Adams Memorial, commissioned by her husband, Henry Adams
Here is Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Adams Memorial, commissioned by her husband, Henry Adams
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