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#MerryWives_2025 "It has been used as the basis for the libretto of at least nine operas, including Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (1893)." Introduction, Arden 3rd. Happily, I attended the 2014 Canadian Opera Company production of Falstaff.

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#MerryWives_2025 "If Merry Wives is to be related to the chronology of the histories, Falstaff's penury and Prince Hal's absence might suggest the period of his reported disgrace between King Henry IV, Part 2 and his reported death in King Henry V." Introduction, Arden 3rd.

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#MuchAdo_2025 I used to think of Much Ado About Nothing as one of Shakespeare’s lighter plays, but after this read, I feel that its handling of power, honour, and gender inequities is much darker. I finished today as I'm indisposed for the next few days. Thanks @christina500.bsky.social and all.

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#MuchAdo_2025 ...Lord Lackbeard... (V.1.196)

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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#MuchAdo_2025 Antonio: Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple — Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys, That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander (V.1.100-103) ... Leonato: I will be heard! (117) Don't mess with old-man strength!

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My thoughts on reading alongside others as part of #NYRBWomen25 . libromancy.net/2025/02/09/l...

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#MuchAdo_2025 Beatrice: Kill Claudio. (IV,1.296) I would eat his heart in the marketplace. (IV,1.313) Maev Beaty (Stratford Festival—2023) plays Beatrice in this scene with such believable fury and sorrow that it had me in tears.

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#MuchAdo_2025 Why do men so readily assume the worst about women they claim to love? Why is female virtue always under surveillance, but male virtue is not? Ugh, to this historical male obsession with controlling and "owning" women's chastity, both in reality and in perception. 1.

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Part of why I launched my newsletter on Ghost (now that people are talking again about Substack's Nazi problem, to which I'd add that Substack has Marc Andreessen and Y-Combinator behind it, which is at a minimum repellant)....

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#AContinuation25 Tom Jones - a thread "Thus ends this history, with happiness to the worthy, and punishment to the guilty; a conclusion which, whatever may be the opinion of sagacious critics, will, we hope, be agreeable to the reader's expectations." 1.

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#MuchAdo_2025 Beatrice: What pace is this that thy tongue keeps? Margaret: Not a false gallop. (III.4.83/84)

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#MuchAdo_2025 Borachio: For when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. (III.3.103-105)

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#MuchAdo_2025 Claudio: Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept into a lute string and now governed by stops. (III.2.52/53)

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#MuchAdo_2025 Hero: Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, Misprizing what they look on, and her wit Values itself so highly that to her All matter else seems weak. She cannot love Nor take no shape nor project of affection She is so self-endeared. (III.1.57-62)

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#AContinuation25 Tom Jones, XVII, 1 "When a comic writer hath made his principal characters as happy as he can, or when a tragic writer hath brought them to the highest pitch of human misery, they both conclude their business to be done, and that their work is come to a period."

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#MuchAdo_2025 Benedick: I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage, but doth not the appetite alter? II.3.229-231 Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? 233-235

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