Brilliant Minds

Peter's Workshop at HB

This Monday afternoon, October 27th, I'll be doing a workshop at HB Studio on Imagery and Action.  Course description is below.

More information is here at the HB Studio  site. HB is located at 120 Bank Street: (directions). 212-675-2370.

Peter Arcese
Imaging Workshop
Monday, October 27
2:30pm - 6:00pm
Class Fee $45

Theatre is an art form of visuals and actions. Audiences at the original Greek tragedies and comedies sat in a theatron, "a seeing place," to watch a drama, literally a "doing." Learn the language of images. Learn how the words of a playtext carry the visuals in images which support the action of the play. Explore the nature of this imagery through exercises designed to engage the sensory imagination. Enrich images through visualization exercises derived from both ancient wisdom traditions and the contemporary arts. Create a performance space filled with focused images areas, giving meaning to gesture, movement, and blocking. Work with the imagery in both classic and contemporary plays through monologues and scenes. Connect image, music, and text to create the strongest, most vivid actions. Special attention given to Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Williams, Beckett, and Shepard.

On The Mill

The Mill on the Floss at The Literary Encyclopedia.

An line-up of discussion questions for George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is available at The Victorian Web.

A website created by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan offers a remarkable  Hyper-Concordance on the works of George Eliot, among many others. Pick a word, any word, and find it ... everywhere!

Arpino

Couldn't resist! The Coat of Arms of Arpino and a view of the hills. Click on either for full view.

Where the Volscians Lived

Thought you might enjoy a map of Volscian territory. I must admit to more than a passing interest here, since there is some personal family history connected with the city of Arpinum (modern Arpino). Just click on the image for a larger view. You might also check out this schematic map for an idea of the region and its relation to Rome.

Coriolanus

Since we'll be discussing Shakespeare's First Folio and its importance for performance, you might take a look at the facsimilie editions available for Coriolanus (as well as the other included plays):

• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Coriolanus in First Folio
• Plain text versions

You can find Plutarch's Coriolanus here in John Dryden's translation. Plutarch's account was one of Shakespeare's major resources. Shakespeare appears to have possessed a copy of Thomas North's translation in his personal library. This is the text of what he worked from:
North's translation.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has a site filled with production references and images (as well a plot summary)!

Nobel Prize in Literature - 2008

The current recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature has just been announced, and is French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. See the Nobel site as details are added.