Reread as preparation for watching Cheek by Jowl production of The Tempest. I only read just up to the denouement before watching the play, then read Reread as preparation for watching Cheek by Jowl production of The Tempest. I only read just up to the denouement before watching the play, then read the rest of it, and there was an interesting difference between how I read it before and after.
Prospero is such a creep lah when he's pushing Ferdinand and Miranda together. And telling Ferdinand not to break her virgin knot or whatever he calls it. Ewww, Prospero, butt out of your daughter's business.
Seems almost kind of pointless to rate Shakespeare!...more
I thought I hadn't read this yet but it turned out I had. I was a bit meh about it. I do really like the way she writes; it isn't that. I can tell sheI thought I hadn't read this yet but it turned out I had. I was a bit meh about it. I do really like the way she writes; it isn't that. I can tell she wants to do a sort of thing about the interconnectedness of communities of women all over the world and our body issues, but I was kind of put off by how the stories of all the other women are more about her than they are about them, particularly the stories of women in Third World countries. All this about African women being ~close to the earth~. And the African woman and the Indian woman were literally handholding her out of her body issues! They didn't get a story of their own. Bah. >:(...more
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