I love this--love the sense of them living on and on, as they do live on in our minds. All the world's a stage, but perhaps all the mind is one big tavern in which such characters walk in and out day after day, to mingle and mull over our places in the great scheme of things.
Applause! Applause! Thanks for the smile this morning! Also - a lovely moment of synchronicity - I wrote this week, too, about Shakespeare - more specifically, Romeo and Juliet and "The Rape of Lucrece." Perhaps that material will show up here one of these days. xoxo
What fun. I was a Shakespeare "scholar" and studied for a wonderful semester in London, went to plays practically every night. Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan were on the stages. Thanks for this, terrific.
I was right there eavesdropping! Thank you, Elizabeth the poet. And especially for this line which is its own poem: “but who, when he stood still?”
Well, but who...??? Thanks so much for eavesdropping along with me, Jeni the maker!
I don't see mannered or peculiar- I see something I also love -if not to bits yet, them from the first sight and onward. Thank you for this, Elizabeth
Thanks so much for loving it too, Chen! 🎭🌿
What a delightfully fun poem!
Glad you found it so, Simon! 🎭🌿
I love this--love the sense of them living on and on, as they do live on in our minds. All the world's a stage, but perhaps all the mind is one big tavern in which such characters walk in and out day after day, to mingle and mull over our places in the great scheme of things.
Oh, perfect, Sunny! Thanks so much for reading, and for "getting it." 🎭🌿
Applause! Applause! Thanks for the smile this morning! Also - a lovely moment of synchronicity - I wrote this week, too, about Shakespeare - more specifically, Romeo and Juliet and "The Rape of Lucrece." Perhaps that material will show up here one of these days. xoxo
I'll keep an eye out for it! Thanks always for reading, Francesca. 🎭🌿
Enjoyed reading it. Liked your self-criticism and commentary, too.
Thanks very much, David. 🎭🌿
Happy Bardsday!
And the like to you, good sir! 🎭🌿
What fun. I was a Shakespeare "scholar" and studied for a wonderful semester in London, went to plays practically every night. Derek Jacobi, Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan were on the stages. Thanks for this, terrific.
Oh my goodness, what a time to be there! So glad you had that semester, Wes. Thanks always for reading! 🎭🌿
I love this.
So glad, Melanie! Thanks for telling me, and for the restack. 🎭🌿