detail - info below Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808 - 25) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres via the Louvre "Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future." Oedipus and the Sphinx by François-Xavier Fabre via A Classic a Day "If you are the man he says you are, believe me, you were born for pain." ...
I have to be honest here: Macbeth scared the hell out of me. The witches, the ghosts, the brutal murders, the madness, the blood... Visualizing the three witches saying "Fair is foul and foul is fair" gave me goosebumps. I'm not sure which is more horrifying, the witches or the doublespeak. Now, many of Shakespeare's plays have violence. Othello strangles Desdemona, Cornwall plucks out Gloucester's eyes in King...
Othello is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. An interesting topic for reflection is how can the audience side with Iago - the play's wicked villain - and dislike Othello. I mean, think about it. Iago is not trustworthy. He makes Othello and Roderigo believe he is on their sides, when in reality he is manipulating both. He doesn’t really act, he spends most of...
Shakespeare is all about emotion and catharsis. Sometimes it amazes me how his plays can be as powerful as a movie. It is incredibly difficult to choose favorite scenes when all the plays are so good. But here are some scenes that made me hold on to my seat when I saw them on stage or read them in the play (by the way,...
