HELLO ARTH 424.

THOUGHT I WOULD SWITCH MY BLOG FROM SHAKESPEARE THEMES TO HIGH RENIASSANCE CONCERNS.  So here is a fine EARLY TITIAN to contemplate to start us off. (MORE ABOUT THIS IMAGE LATER).
LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR BLOGS: responses to readings, to your research, and anything you'd like to share that you feel might be relevant or at least interesting. . .

2 Hamlets playing in New York now; one with just 4 actors! (click for link)

                         Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) -- a must for all film lovers

We were lucky enough to see one of my favorite actors, Peter Ustinov, as King Lear in Stratford, Canada (c. 1980).  We also saw Maggie Smith in "The Seagull" the next day!

Here is my best friend from Philadelphia College of Art, JOE DANTE (you may know him as the director of GREMLINS) with his blog "Trailers from Hell" discussing the great Ernst Lubitsch comedy from 1940 TO BE OR NOT TO BE in which Jack Benny TRIES (several times) to deliver the soliloquoy, but the Nazi invasion of Poland keeps getting in the way. With the great Carole Lombard (her last movie). See it!

Flaying of Marsyas (details) ---see full view below

                                                                  The Titian (1576)