A newly discovered Gilgamesh tablet, with Humbaba -- and monkeys?
October 1, 2015
June 16, 2015
James Joyce Explains Why Ulysses Is the Most “Complete Man” inLiterature
"Hamlet is a human being, but he is a son only. Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all. Don’t forget that he was a war dodger who tried to evade military service by simulating madness. He might never have taken up arms and gone to Troy, but the Greek recruiting sergeant was too clever for him and, while he was ploughing the sands, placed young Telemachus in front of his plough. But once at the war the conscientious objector became a jusqu’auboutist. When the others wanted to abandon the siege he insisted on staying till Troy should fall."
A jusqu’auboutist is one who sticks it out to the end.
"Nausicaa," from Henri Matisse's illustrations to the 1935 edition of Joyce's "Ulysses."
May 3, 2015
"Chekhov for Children"
This documentary recalls our kids' projects of creating and performing serious work based on complex stories: filmmaker Sasha Waters-Freyer "tells the inspiring story of an ambitious undertaking – the 1979 staging on Broadway of Uncle Vanya by New York City 5th & 6th graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Using a wealth of never-before-screened student documentary videos and dramatic super 8mm films from the era, Chekhov for Children explores the interplay between art and life for a dozen friends across 30 years."
Lopate wrote an essay on his work with this production.
View at Fandor or email swfreyer@vcu.edu to order a DVD
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