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[truepenny]

Spent the afternoon at the library. Read and argued vociferously with four articles; checked out Jonathan Dollimore's Radical Tragedy for perusal at home.

Discovered (via the oldest and naivest of the articles) that The Second Maiden's Tragedy (not to be confused with Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maiden's Tragedy) apparently has BOTH a disinterred corpse AND a ghost in it. Unable to resist. Checked out and brought home also. Will read when done with The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois.

Ran into my dissertation director in the stacks, because that's the sort of thing that happens in the library. Had the no-really-I'm-not-going-on-the-job-market conversation for the umpteenth time. Maybe she believes me this time. I hope.

Bought myself a peach smoothie and walked home--2 miles in 90-degree heat (32 degrees Centigrade for them as prefer it). Feel now tired and accomplished and very very virtuous.

Whoof.

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

You know what you need? A T-shirt. That says "Not Teaching. Not Kidding." in big letters on the front, or someting equally pithy. The next time you meet her, you can just point. :)

[libskrat]

I'd be tempted to say something completely outrageous in an utterly deadpan tone of voice, myself. "I'll go on the academic job market when George Bush eats a French-fried rat."

C'mon, everybody, join in! Truepenny will go on the academic job market when...

[(Anonymous)]

I give up.

"Discovered (via the oldest and naivest of the articles) that The Second Maiden's Tragedy (not to be confused with Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maiden's Tragedy) apparently has BOTH a disinterred corpse AND a ghost in it"

Truepenny dear, what the hell is your dissertation about? Inquiring minds have GOT to know.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

My dissertation is on ghosts, horror, and revenge tragedy in early modern England (in this case meaning roughly between 1590 and 1615), with one chapter on Seneca (qua playwright rather than qua philosopher), one chapter on pamphlets about real-life hauntings between roughly 1640 and 1690, and one chapter on Senecanism in the twentieth century (talking about Equus and The Brotherhood of the Wolf). Specific Elizabethan and Jacobean texts are Hamlet and Titus Andronicus (each getting their own chapter), Richard III, The Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), The Tragedy of Bussy D'Ambois, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (both Chapman), The Changeling (Middleton & Rowley), The Atheist's Tragedy (Tourneur), The Revengers Tragedy (Middleton or Tourneur), and now apparently The Second Maiden's Tragedy (Middleton--or, if you believe the nutjob who thinks this is the lost play Cardenio, Shakespeare and Fletcher).

Hth.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is cool.

(BTW, that's me above, forgot to sign in.)

:) Reannon