English Curricular Things

[themadpoker]

Yeats, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. If we've got to study poetry there are certainly worse people the school could've picked. =) And I've always kind of wanted to be able to say I've read 'The Bell Jar'. I don't even know why; I don't actually want to read the book, I just want to have read it if that makes any sense.

Eliot wins at pretty words! ^o^

We got the depressing Shakespeare play though. King Lear. :/ Plot doesn't sound like something I can really mock all that much which really takes half the fun out of it. I mean Hamlet last year was great, he was the archetypal emo kid, you could go on and on about him.

...hey I just realized we've never gotten to read a Shakespeare comedy through all of high school. 'Sup with that, IB?

Other required reading: Jane Eyre, The Quiet American, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Swann, and Fifth Business. There better be at least one mockable book in the lot or I will sadface.

Comments

[limdo-luciel.livejournal.com]

I love you for calling Hamlet emo. XD That was exactly what I thought when we did Hamlet.

[troisroyaumes]

Jane Eyre is eminently mockable, never fear. ^_^

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

King Lear is fantastic! It's complete nihilism with loads of violence (not as much as Titus Andronicus, but still a fair bit!) The language is so rich, and for once there's no neat god or temporal power to wrap everything up at the end. If you get a chance, read Jan Koff's essay on it from Shakespeare Our Contemporary, genius stuff.

And if you want the LOLs, check out Nahum Tate's rewriting, which was the only version publicly played in England between the Reformation and the 19th century. Happy ending, Edgar marries Cordelia.

[ebony-creme.livejournal.com]

Fifth Business is quality, although I had a really good teacher when I did it. :D Plath and Eliot are also awesome. Lucky you!