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Tag Archives: As You Like It
On Lili Horvát’s Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
I haven’t been able to shake this beautiful Hungarian film, Horvát’s second. It’s streaming on the Criterion Channel right now. The film inspires RIFFS – I mean the title alone! – and so I wrote about it on my Substack. … Continue reading
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Tagged As You Like It, drama, Hungary, newsletter, Sylvia Plath, What Happened Was
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As You Like It, Act III,sc.5
ROSALIND (to the mousy little Phebe) Who might be your mother, That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,– As, by my faith, I see no more in you Than without … Continue reading
“Love is merely a madness”
So says Rosalind in As You Like It, and I have to say that I agree. Here follows what is (now) a rather amusing story about me and love. And how, at times, it is like a MADNESS. A FEVER … Continue reading
O, how full of briers is this working-day world! – As You Like It
I just came across two cool articles about one of my favorite plays – Shakespeare’s As You Like It – and so I’m going to point to them, and also rant and rave on about the play itself. Here’s a … Continue reading

