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@AtivanGirl Which one are you reading? I’m teaching the upper-level course in early modern drama this semester— so Ford & Webster are going to be a big part of my “stock-in-trade.”

Isn’t this what everyone reads on their trips?

@jgavinpaul Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A MOVIE! THE TRUE MAGIC OF BOOKS IS THAT THEY COME TO LIFE IN YOUR MIND, ACTIVATED BY YOUR PARTICIPATORY IMAGINATION!

Today in 1066 - Battle of Hastings: On Senlac Hill, 7 miles from Hastings, William the Conqueror defeats and kills King Harold II of England After nine hours of intense fighting, King Harold II was killed by an arrow through the eye bit.ly/TrAtZK

I will be talking to M G Vassanji as we launch his latest novel, Everything There Is, on October 25. BC folks, if you are around, please join us. This event is in-person. Please register: kpu.ca/everything-the…

@jgavinpaul @JohnWoods333 I hated that play. Absolutely hated it. For years and years and years— until I saw Julie Taymor’s jaw-droppingly brilliant film. She was able to show me much that I hadn’t been able to see for myself. Every performance is an act of interpretation….

@JohnWoods333 That’s a great summation. An amazing play. Reading it today. Violence is its engine: it is encoded in Saturninus’ appeal for support in the opening speech, it justifies Rome’s reverence for Titus, it is there at the end when Lucius orders the desecration of Tamora’s corpse…

Titus Andronicus is my favorite Shakespearean tragedy. Unlike other tragedies, which focus on individual character flaws, Titus illustrates the cyclical nature of Violence. A möbius strip of unending brutality and suffering, where all parties feel justified in their vengeance.

@AtivanGirl Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha Forgive me, but Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

Piss off, fortune cookie!

@jgavinpaul Once again, Gavin, I’ve read one of your posts— and find myself in need of an emoji for uproarious laughter, followed by profound weeping.

[glances at the news] [mumbling to himself]: someone read a book. A history book, any book. Please.

@AtivanGirl It’s really too bad that there’s not an emoji for sardonic laughter.

My new fav starting to a book: “It was hot — the kind of heat that makes you long for the weather to cool down.” 😂 ahhhh ok that kind of heat. A review of Millie Bobby Brown's first novel, Nineteen Steps i-d.vice.com/en/article/ak3…

@jgavinpaul @AmericanGwyn “These be the Christian husbands”— it’s a bitterly sarcastic comment, of course— but I think it also reveals that Shylock still loves Jessica— and is worried about her welfare.

@AmericanGwyn “I was adored once too.” Andrew in Twelfth Night

To me, the saddest lines in all of Shakespeare: “I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well: Thou never shalt hear herald any more."—Henry V

@jgavinpaul It’s really too bad that there’s not an emoji for laughing uproariously, followed by profound weeping.

Week one of semester Week two of semester #amteaching

@AtivanGirl I don’t know that it’s much consolation, but my father always used to say that insanity is hereditary— you can get it from your kids.

Was nice of my kids to coordinate their emotional meltdowns for the same time.

@jgavinpaul That way lies madness, Gavin….

Maybe the real data we scraped are the friends we made along the way…

@medievalmac I’ve read student evaluations that were genuinely insightful— for good and ill. Some pleased me mightily. Others made me blush (and I have to say, rightly so). I’ve also read evaluations that were spiteful nonsense, arrant humbug and mere untruths— sometimes all mixed together

"No employer gets to require you to read anonymous insults."

@jgavinpaul Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

Me, scrolling through an online recipe, just trying to find the goddamn directions… The Recipe: this stew dates back to my family’s history in the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Let me explain… #amcooking

@jgavinpaul It’s been kind of a rough day— but I have to say you’ve cheered me tremendously with the news item you’ve shared— I can’t wait to tell my brother about it!

@AtivanGirl I understand that Dr. Gavin Paul does this with ravens and crows.

Where can I find a bird like this?

@jgavinpaul If you’d lived in the Citadel at Old Town, Gavin, I’m sure you would have been the Maester of Ravens.

Corvus. Dispatch Two Hundred Seven. #crowtograph

@AtivanGirl I’m with you— even if Harold Bloom did call it “rancid.”

An article by Jill L. Levenson that I’m reading calls Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare’s “great, unloved play” and this is such a good description of it. (Though I love it)

I'm sure you know this, but here are 11 Facts About #Shakespeare’s First Folio on its 400th Anniversary: mentalfloss.com/posts/shakespe…

And Shakespeare may have returned frequently to Stratford, especially during Lent, when theatres (all in London) were closed. The journey took two or three days on horseback. Sonnets 50 and 51 are written as it were on horseback. Hard on the thighs.