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March 08, 2007
What's Going On: Headache, Writing, and "Shrew"
Ugh! I have such a headache today. It's really impairing my ability to get things done.
The good news though is that I've been very productive the last few days. I've worked on and sent out two submissions so far this week. I had hoped to send out another one tonight, but right now I can hardly do laundry so I think polishing and submitting a story is out of the question.
Also in the good news column – I found out yesterday that a theatre back home is doing "The Taming of the Shrew" in the fall. It is my favorite Shakespeare play! Hard to believe, I know. Sure, "Shrew" is strongly patriarchal and misogynist. George Bernard Shaw even had these harsh words for the play:
"No man with any decency of feeling can sit it out in the company of a woman without being extremely ashamed of the lord-of-creation moral implied in the wager and the speech put into the woman's own mouth."
(I found that in the Cambridge University Press 1984 edition of "The Taming of the Shrew.")
But I learned to love the play when I was doing a project on it in college. I came to believe that it is possible to produce a feminist, even romantic, "Shrew." I haven't seen it done yet, but I'll still hoping.
That trip to DC that I was planning for August may have to be moved to September in order to make room for "The Taming of the Shrew."
:)
Posted by Selena at March 8, 2007 11:09 AM