Litsy

Macbeth | William Shakespeare

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#haikuaday

Ghost guest at banquet.
Only Macbeth sees Banquo.
Crown weighs heavy now.

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TheSpineView Shakespeare!! I'm loving it! ❤️❤️❤️ 4d

JenlovesJT47 Nice and eerie, very atmospheric! 🖤🐝💛 4d

lil1inblue Love this! Chef's kiss! 😘 👌 4d

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Itchyfeetreader This is so fun. Love it! 4d

Jari-chan Uh, spooky!! 4d

dabbe @TheSpineView @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan This is my favorite play of Shakespeare's (and his shortest! 🤣) TY! 🖤🐝🖤 4d

AnnCrystal Yikes! 👏🏼🐝👍🏼📜🐝💝. 4d

dabbe @AnnCrystal #indeedy! 🖤🐝🖤 4d

BooksandCoffee4Me Love your literary haikus! 💛💛💛 4d

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me TY! 🖤🐝🖤 4d

julieclair Oooohhhh…. love this. And great art, too! 🖤🐝🖤 4d

Eggs Wonderful! I am going to try a haiku review next!! 3d

dabbe @julieclair I wish I could claim the art! 🖤🐝🖤 3d

dabbe @Eggs Can't wait! 🖤🐝🖤 3d

bellabella So true. So cool.❤ 2d

dabbe @bellabella TY! 🖤🐝🖤 2d

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ErikasMindfulShelf

The Crucible | Arthur Miller

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Read The Crucible to get ready to watch John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.

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dabbe

The Crucible | Arthur Miller

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#thecrucible

Nooses whisper as
the girls' lies waft through Salem––
truth burning in flames.

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JenlovesJT47 Ooh this is creepy! 💛🐝🖤 1w

AnnCrystal Chilling 🥺🐝👍🏼⭐🐝💝. 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal One of my favorite plays that I ever taught! 🖤🐝🖤 1w

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Eggs Oooo this is chilling 😱🥶 1w

JenlovesJT47 I have an ancestor who was tried as a witch but she got off. 😬 1w

dabbe @Eggs I was in a creepy mood today! 🩶🖤🩶 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 In the Salem Witch Trials? W😱WZA! 😱😱 1w

JenlovesJT47 I don‘t remember if it was Salem but that‘s crazy! Every time I read up/watch anything about the witch trials it seems like a made up story. I just can‘t believe people are that cruel and ignorant. 1w

AnnCrystal @dabbe 🆒🎭👍🏼💝. 1w

AnnCrystal Wow, that's incredible family history! @JenlovesJT47 have you seen Witch Hunt (2021)? It was slow but good and incredibly terrifying. Can't even watch it right now because, well, because of this chaotic world we call reality. 1w

TheSpineView Wow! 💛🐝💛 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 🎯🩵🎯 1w

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🖤🐝🖤 1w

dabbe @TheSpineView 🖤🐝🖤 1w

JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal I haven‘t seen it but I‘ll add it to my list! Have you read the Practical Magic series? One of the books is set during the witch trials and it is so good. Actually they‘re all great imo! 1w

AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 🥳🎬💝. I've only seen the 1998 movie (I believe it's from one of the books). I've heard the books are really good and even more magical ☺️👍🏼💝. 1w

dabbe @AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 Is that the movie with Bullock and Kidman in the 90s? I loved it if it is. And I only read the first book in the series. More for the TBR! 🤩 1w

JenlovesJT47 Yes that‘s the one! The movie is good but the books are amazing 😻 1w

AnnCrystal @dabbe @JenlovesJT47 been years since I've seen the movie...but I really liked it. Adding these books to my TBR too. Thanks JenlovesJT47 🥳📚💝. 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 @AnnCrystal Cool beans! Time to read some more! 🤩 1w

julieclair Oh my goodness, this is so atmospheric! I remember visiting Salem when I was about 9 or 10 years old. They re-enacted a witch trial and hung the witch at the end. It made quite an impact on my young self. Even then, I felt the supreme injustice of it. 1w

dabbe @julieclair TY! I would have loved to have seen that! I have always been fascinated by the witch trials--way back to when I was about the same age! No wonder I love Halloween. But, you're absolutely right--the absolute horrendous injustice of it all. 1w

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sdbruening

The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams

so-so

There were some interesting and enlightening moments, but it didn‘t feel very profound to me. It‘s about a mom, son, and daughter. The son works at a warehouse but his head is in the movies and poetry and the clouds. The daughter is debilitatingly shy, has uneven legs, and only cares for her glass menagerie and Victrola. The mom is overly ambitious for the both of them.

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xicanti

The Rez Sisters | Tomson Highway

Sunday theatre with Daisy-May, who‘s decided she‘s tired of being upright and would like to sprawl on her awful couch for a few hours, thanks.

(The STORIES I could tell you about this couch! It‘s an atrocity. Those leather couches people leave by the curb as freebies and nobody ever actually picks up because they‘re AWFUL are nicer than this late Victorian piece to which my aunt is hopelessly attached.)

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4w

AlaMich 🛋️😂 4w

MemoirsForMe 😳😁🤭 4w

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TheSpineView

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works | William Shakespeare

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Week

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xicanti

The Rez Sisters | Tomson Highway

This week‘s little library haul features another play by Tomson Highway (love his stuff), a couple volumes of poetry, and a crime comic.

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JenlovesJT47

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams

Now for another of my favorite movies from Old Hollywood, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (if you haven‘t seen it, please do! Great movie and dialogue and Liz Taylor and Paul Newman might just be the two best looking people I‘ve ever seen together in one place here!)

Obnoxious odor,
smell that? The powerful smell
of mendacity.

#haikuhive #HaikuADay #poetry #OldHollywood

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dabbe #nailedit 🎯🩵🎯
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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🎬👍🏼🤩💖. 1mo

DebinHawaii Love the film haikus! 🖤🎬💛🐝 1mo

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Mattsbookaday

The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts | Thornton Wilder

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The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder (1942)

Premise: In this classic play, humanity is portrayed in microcosm as a conventional, suburban American family.

Review: I‘m often surprised by just how early the pastiche, sense of play, and erasure of the fourth wall that I associate with postmodern literature appears in the canon. Cont.

Mattsbookaday This play, written during the Second World War, is exceedingly weird and surrealist, in a way that is simultaneously brilliant and a bit off-putting. It‘s sad and cynical, but also silly and hopeful. It‘s certainly not for everyone, but it‘s a deserved classic.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1mo

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