Every time I read "Et in Arcadia Ego" I think of Tom Stoppard's
"Arcadia":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_%28play%29>
--Mike
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Clay Stromberger <
cstromberger(a)mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
I was reading an essay last night on the phrase
"Et in Arcadia ego" for a
paper I'm writing, and the author, describing Poussin's "The Arcadian
Shepherds," described one of the duties of art as "allowing communication
about the unutterable." I thought of Bottom's dream again ("no words of
me") and then had a vision of the performance beginning with everyone asleep
on the stage, everyone a Bottom, waking up to attempt to describe a most
rare vision, then rushing off to get Peter Quince and the gang to start
rolling on that play and that ballad (or ballet, as you like). Telling the
story of the dream through the play and playing.
cs
On May 5, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
Here's the updated list, with Matt's M4M scenes.
2 Gents (pirates)
Comedy of Errors (knocking at the gate, Dr. Pinch)
Taming (servants at Petruchio's return)
Much Ado (Dogberry and the great chase, Kill Claudio (done in 2005))
LLL (play with the play)
AYL (Ducdame)
MND (Blame Clayton! Bottom's Dream)
Cymbeline (Iachino in the trunk, funeral song)
Winter's Tale (Paulina shows Leontes his infant child, dance of the 12
satyrs,
final scene)
Lear (Lear-Cordelia reconciliation)
Pericles (final scene)
"Brats of Clarence" by Paul Menzer
Hamlet (advice to the players, grave diggers)
Sonnet 30 (remembrance of things past)
Henry V (muse of fire)
3 Henry VI (Duke of York: "o tiger's heart….)
Othello (how 2 win Desdemona)
Sonnets 40, 116, 130, 138, 142 or others
Antony and Cleopatra -- news that Antony has married Octavia, also:
II.vii.
song-and-dance
Measure for Measure -- Opening scene, Angelo
wants only one thing:
Isabella's virginity, Isabella and Claudio imagine
howling.
Macbeth: porter's scene, weird sisters.
Tempest: drunks. epilogue.
12th Night: drunks (done in 2005)
HVIII: Wolsey and Catherine. Epilogue.
"Everything and Nothing" -- Borges (Mike says Irby translation is better
than Kerrigan!)
"Little Gidding" -- Eliot
Falstaff scenes (1 and 2 Henry IV, Merry Wives, "Chimes at Midnight")
"Kiss Me Kate" -- "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"
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