Class Notes January 25, 2011

• Everyone needs to start choosing secondary works
• Metempsychosis
• neo-platinism
• cabala
• Shakespeare knew about these branches; evident in his work
• Shakespeare doesn't say anything
• his characters say things
• all of them & none of them
• Mid Summer's Night Dream
• Presentations February 3rd
• 10 minutes
• Why is Act V included?
• Shakespeare our Contemporary
• Jan Kott
• Masque
• Tempest
• Good example
• King Lear
• 3 editions
• Venus & Adonis
• misplaced myth
• Mesopotamia
• Annu visits sister in underworld
• Demus lover for Anana
• reverse of Hades & Persephone
• Persephone
• becomes a boar
• consuming myth
• split personality
• sisters
• different sides of herself
• Persephone & Venus
• Golden Ass
• Apuleius
• read
• talks about Isis
• Nick's blog
• Manly P. Hall
• Ted Hughes
• Shakespeare & the Goddess of Complete Being
• Catholics & Protestants
• warring like Venus & Adonis
• Rejection of Goddess
• Ishtar
• celebration Easter
• Read blogs
• Intimidation is Good!
• Jon Orsi
• Jeff
• Jami
• Craig
• Matt
• Painting of Tarquin
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
• movie
• should watch
• retelling of Hamlet from different perspective
• The Secret Teachings of All Ages
• Hall
• Tarquin
• Shakespeare's ultimate villain
• rapist
• killer
• realistic version of the boar
• commit atrocious act
• Shakespeare's Pierced Hero
• Macbeth
• Jennifer's sons picture
• St. Sebastian image
• Icuro
• II Samura
• Throne of Blood
• Youtube
• Great version of Macbeth
• 43 seconds
• Macbeth
• page 1627
• referencing Bible
• John Chap 16
• knows about Judas' betrayal: do it
• quickly
• "And pity..." line 21
• Venus & Adonis
• Ashley's blog
• Passiphae
• Greek Goddess
• Venus & Adonis/ Rape of Lucere
• only superficially about rape
• guy wrong in both poems
• rejected unconditional love
• role of enraged boar
• Shakespeare=feminist
• Adonis
• model of Puritan
• rejects unconditional love
• Actaeon
• Gazing upon the Goddess
• 12th Night
• Goddess of Dianna
• Satyr-became
• hunter becomes the hunted
• consuming myth of Shakespeare
• does not have maturity needed to look upon the Goddess