🎭 Truth hath a quiet breast.
— Thomas Mowbray, Richard II
It’s interesting Shakespeare didn’t say “Truth hath quiet breasts.”
Maybe another breast hath falsity?
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🎭What fates impose, that men must needs abide. It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
Meaning,
Whether the situation is bad or good, do not resist and accept it.
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🎭 this is the third man that e’er I saw; the first that I e’er sigh’d for.
Miranda has never seen a human being except her aged father and his slave and the native of the island Caliban. That make you nod she could sigh for at anyone who was young and proper. In fact, this man was Prince Ferdinand of Naples, who was sobbing spoiled weak kid. Only, he had his manners to greet Miranda with courtesy, which made her believed he was the most exquisite being in the whole world.😂
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🎭Men’s evil manners live in brass. Their virtues
We write in water.
—Griffith, Henry VIII, 4-2
He was talking to the Princess Dowager Katherine of her son Cardinal Wolsey, how he died. Griffith says people never forget the bad parts of a character, but the good part we forget after write it in tears at the funeral.
Actually, Shakespeare makes Mark Antony speak the exact opposite in Julius Caesar. Interesting.
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One cloudy day, I went to TanZawa Lake. It provides water for Kanagawa prefecture.
You can only approach by car, which means theare are not so many people there. That means the air is crisp and clean. The atmosphere is quite different from Okutama Lake of Tokyo, though Okutama is also beautiful and clean. How shall I put the difference? This Tanzawa Lake is quieter, bearing old Japan of 100 years ago.
There are an old style Japanese farm life style museum. You can see a people’s house, not aristocratic, just an ordinary farm house.
As I put some notes in the photographs below, I realized the similarities in the architecture of Japanese farm house and Shakespearean farm houses (even theatre!). Thatched roof and white mud. Isn’t it interesting to think of human thinking process?
Some lake photographs and me, too.
There are two restaurants in front of the farm house museum.
I recommend the smaller one which focuses on Soba menu.
(The bigger one has deer meat and other lovely menue as well!)
Look at this big size Tempura plate!
When you order Tempura Soba, you have Soba and Tempura in separate plate, for the amount of Tempura is so big!
(I order hot soba. You can choose cold soba, too.)
Tempura is with big Prawn and forest vegetables and mushroom. Great and very satisfying!
Hello, friends, globalians, and countrypeople, lend me your ears.
Here is something I can offer you the English speakers at last!
Are you a some kind of a Shakespeare fan?
But sometimes you feel there’s much more to know if you want to fully enjoy the plays?
Then, this is what you really enjoy.
Done by only 7 actors and 3 dancers.
You enjoy wonderful actors’ performance, great movie effects, and know tips that give you more knowledge to help you understand the play, and thus, more enjoyment!
Everything was done by zoom, and yet the acting is really great, incredibly interacted. You will be surprised.
In between the scenes, I myself appear as the narrator like a movie subtitle narrations, (and as Ariel).
Well:
Every Summer, I produce How To Enjoy Shakespeare Series. Last year (2020) I was planning to do The Tempest. As we all know that was impossible because of COVID-19.
So I totally changed the plan and decided to make it absolutely online.
The purpose of this project is to let the Japanese people know how to enjoy the usually-thought-to-be-difficult-to-understand Shakespeare, by showing the scenes and giving the key points and great phrases.
Our culture now is quite far away from the Shakespearean common sense and daily routines.
It is not only for the Japanese people, but also for the very English people, too. When I was living in England, I saw many members of the audience from young to elderly, in the auditorium or in the foyer of the theatre, murmuring, “So that character is doing what?” or “And who is connected to who?” and “I didn’t quite get the meaning of the word, what was that?”.
And I’ve always been wanting to let the world enjoy this project.
But it was done on stage in Tokyo and was impossible if one did not live in the area.
However, finally, because of this unfortunate situations which forced me to make this into movie project, it comes to my mind, “how about put English subtitles on?”
And I have done it!
If you are interested in it, please contact me at 2021tempest@gmail.com
I am also going to make short video clips which would give you more idea of what it is like.
Cheers!
