Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Tuesday morning....

a beautiful day outside---have two scheduled sessions today, and after that, I hope to be able to head to the Gotham Market and possibly play trivia with the group that I met two weeks ago. Last week, after the second session, I was too tired to make it to Brooklyn (or anywhere) but today I hope to do it.
 Yesterday a lot of rest, after Sunday's marathon flyering. Body was very tired---still I made my way to the BAN meeting---the final one before the march on Saturday. Is everything in place? I hope so---I probably will not be participating in any of the pre-march activities, but I will be there Sunday morning at 11 or thereabouts.
  The only other interesting thing in my life is my new found fascination with plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare. Am in the middle of Tamburlaine, by Marlowe. Some amazing imagery in the work---also a death scene for the wife of Tamburlaine that is very eloquently written---wife is gentle, the husband (Tamburlaine) very caring. The scene seems to me almost the exact opposite of the vicious  final scene between Othello and Desdemona, written, I guess at least 15 years later.  Did Shakespeare know of this scene. He probably would have seen all of Marlowe's plays. Whatever, I find the juxtaposition of the two scenes fascinating. I will read Tamburlaine to the finish, then possibly look at some other Elizabethan or Jacobean plays. Lots of echoes of Shakespeare in Tamburlaine and The Revenger's Tragedy, which I have also just read.
 Well that is all for now--will report soon.

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