David Bruce Anecdotes
At the bottom of this email is a canto from my retelling of Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY, which has 100 cantos.
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Money
• Dodger executive Branch Rickey was a tight man when it came to giving salaries to his ballplayers. If a player had a great year, Mr. Rickey would tell him, “Well, son, you had a nice year. We decided to let you come back.” When Tommy Lasorda was in the Dodgers’ minor leagues, he negotiated a contract with Mr. Rickey and came up on the losing side. When Mr. Rickey suggested that the terms of the contract remain “just between us,” Mr. Lasorda replied, “You don’t need to worry about me saying anything to anyone about my salary. I’m just as ashamed of it as you are.”
• When he was playing in the minor leagues, baseball star Bobby Bonilla decided to get married. He asked his girlfriend, Millie Quiñones, to come to where he was playing so they could get married. She did, and he gave her $22 — almost all the money he had — so she could buy a dress and shoes to be married in. Of course, $22 doesn’t go very far, and the shoes she bought were so cheap that they turned her feet grey. Three years later, in 1988, Mr. Bonilla was playing in the major leagues for the Pittsburg Pirates and making a $230,000 annual salary.
• The decathlon is a grueling event, and after Bob Mathias won a gold medal in the decathlon at the 1948 Olympic Games, his first words were these: “I wouldn’t do this again for a million dollars.” However, the pain of winning an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon must be a lot like the pain of giving birth. The reward is so great that often the pain is willingly endured again. Many mothers have a second child, and four years later Mr. Mathias competed in the 1952 Olympic games and won a second gold medal in the decathlon.
• Families sometimes have to sacrifice to enable their children to become national- and world-class athletes. Before figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi competed at the 1992 United States National Championships, her mother said, “There have been financial sacrifices to get where we are. We all drive old cars with over 160,000 miles.” Nevertheless, Kristi’s mother had enough money to offer her $100 if she made a difficult triple salchow. Going into the jump, Kristi told herself, “Just do it and get the hundred bucks.” She did.
• While attending Florida State University, Gabrielle Reece worked as a model at the same time she played on the volleyball team. In fact, she gave up her athletic scholarship because athletes weren’t allowed both to work and to have a scholarship. However, she never let work interfere with her duties as an athlete during the volleyball season. She points out, “I would never go on a job during the season. I turned down one job — $35,000 for two days’ work — because I had a game.”
• In 1955, Roberto Clemente’s team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, were not winning games; therefore, Mr. Clemente took out his frustrations on the team’s plastic batting helmets, smashing 22 of them. Manager Fred Haney threatened to start charging him $10 for each batting helmet he destroyed, and Mr. Clemente, whose first language was Spanish, decided to start controlling his temper, saying, “I do not make so much money. I’ll stop breaking the hats.”
• Garry Payton of the NBA Seattle SuperSonics was once dared to shoot a basket during a game by a defender. Mr. Payton shot, made a 3-pointer, then told the defender, “That’s why I make $12 million.”
Mothers
• Bill Russell’s mother was tough, and she expected her son to be tough, too. When Bill was nine years old, he and his mother moved to Oakland, California, to join his father, who had gotten a job there. While Bill was outside in the Housing Authority project where he lived, five kids ran by him, and one of the kids slapped him. He told his mother what had happened, and she went with him to find all five kids. When Bill said that they had found the five kids, she said, “Good, because you are going to fight all of them, one at a time.” Bill won two fights, and he lost the other three, but his mother told him, “Don’t you feel bad now, William. You did right. You stood up for yourself like a man. Always stand up for yourself like a man.” As a member of the Boston Celtics, Bill played 13 seasons, and he and the Celtics won 11 championships.
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Chapter 6: The Gluttonous (Inferno)
When Dante regained consciousness, he discovered that he was in a new section of Hell — the third Circle. Here cold rain and hail and snow fell incessantly, creating mud and a stink like that of a gigantic garbage dump.
Dante and Virgil saw Cerberus, a three-headed dog with a swollen belly whose job was to howl incessantly to make the sinners here wish they were deaf, although the sinners also howled. Cerberus is also the guard of the third Circle. Like the sinners, Cerberus was a glutton, and Cerberus often bit the gluttons.
Once again we see a Circle that is devoted to punishing sinners who are guilty of incontinence, Virgil thought. These sinners were not able to control themselves. They put their desires ahead of their reason. They made their desires — not their reason — supreme in their lives. These sinners ate or drank way too much. They became obese or alcoholic.
Virgil had been this way before, and he knew what to do. To keep Cerberus busy long enough that he and Dante could pass, Virgil threw heaps of mud down Cerberus’ three throats. Busy swallowing the mud, Cerberus let them pass.
The sinners whom Dante and Virgil passed lay on the ground. They seemed to have human form, but they lacked bodies. Only on Judgment Day would their souls be reunited with their bodies.
One sinner saw Dante and quickly sat up and said, “Do you know who I am? We lived at the same time for a while.”
Dante looked closely at the sinner, but he admitted, “Your punishment must have changed you because I don’t recognize you. But please tell who you are.”
The sinner said, “Your own city — Florence, which is filled with envious people — once claimed me as a citizen. I am damned to this Circle because of my sin of gluttony. The Florentines gave me a nickname: Ciacco.”
Ciacco is a fitting name for a glutton such as you, Virgil thought. It means Hog or Pig.
“Ciacco,” Dante said, “I pity you, and I want to cry, but since you mentioned Florence, can you tell me what will happen to that city that I love? The city has two political parties that fight each other. What is going to happen to them? Are all the men in Florence envious?”
“After much more fighting, one party will drive out the other party,” Ciacco replied. “Then within three years the positions will be reversed, and the party that was victorious will be defeated, and the party that was defeated will be victorious. Two men in Florence are just, but no one will listen to them.”
I understand more than you do, Dante, Virgil thought. Ciacco is making a prophecy of your upcoming exile when you will be forbidden ever to return to your beloved Florence on pain of death. Like the other souls in the Inferno, I am able to see the future. However, I won’t tell you about your upcoming exile. I am your teacher, but teachers don’t tell all they know. Some things are better for a student to think about and discover for him- or herself.
Dante asked, “Can you give me some more information, please? What has happened to Farinata degli Uberti, to Tegghiaio Aldobrandini, to Jacopo Rusticucci, and to Mosca dei Lamberti? Where are they? Are they in Heaven or in Hell?”
“They are in Hell,” Ciacco answered. “Their sins are worse than mine, so they are in deeper Circles than I am. If you continue your journey downward, you will see them. But if you ever make it again to the sweet, living world, remember me and ask our mutual friends to remember me.”
The deeper we go into Hell, the worse the sins that are being punished, Virgil thought. High in Hell, many of the sinners still want to be remembered on Earth. Very low in Hell, many of the sinners prefer to be entirely forgotten on Earth because of the vileness of their sins.
Ciacco’s gaze lost focus. He squinted, and then he lay down again in the mud with the other gluttons.
Virgil told Dante, “Ciacco will stay like that until Judgment Day. On that day, his soul will be reunited with his body.”
“What will happen when his soul is reunited with his body?” Dante asked. “Will his torment be increased or lessened or just the same as now?”
“You have studied philosophy,” Virgil replied. “Human beings were created with both a body and a soul. Together, body and soul are more perfect than they are separately. What is perfect can feel more perfectly than what is not perfect can feel. The sinners in Hell will feel their pain more intently, and the saved souls in the Supreme Emperor’s kingdom will feel their bliss more intently.”
They continued walking.
This is another example of contrapasso, Virgil thought. Mud is plentiful in the third Circle of the Inferno because rain is always falling. The gluttons wanted to enjoy the good things, but now they are forced to live in uncomfortable surroundings — surroundings much like a muddy pigsty. The gluttons made pigs of themselves while living, and now, although they are dead, they live like pigs. The gluttons sleep in the mud like pigs, just like a glutton would go to sleep after enjoying a huge meal. After talking with Dante, Ciacco was unable to focus his eyes; he is now in a stupor, just as a glutton would be in a stupor after eating a huge meal. In addition, Cerberus bites the gluttons the way that the gluttons bit into their food.
Dante and Virgil then saw Plutus, the arch-enemy of Humankind.
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BILLY RHINEHART
BILLY RHINEHART: HEAVY ORCHIDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5boJYXbktw
https://www.amazon.com/Orchids-Tattoo-Dances-Rhinehart-2002-01-15/dp/B01AB9DOZW
LIVE FROM HOME: BILLY RHINEHART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
William “Billy” Rhinehart: “Over Here and Far Away”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6hrVj4X_k
TONY XENOS on the Billy and Brucie Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8rwjpM9ZY
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ALBERT ROUZIE
Albert Rouzie on Bandcamp
https://albertrouzie.bandcamp.com
Albert Rouzie on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Yopt8yXOI77EadEIm8M9X
Albert Rouzie — Topic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LwRbqouX8nCKQKeMvao_w
Albert Rouzie — Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/rouziesongs/
Albert Rouzie: “Man on the Roof”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVrqUHs5f8
Albert Rouzie: “Granpa’s Guitar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAHQVxh5fM
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Albert Rouzie: “Miss Molly”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJ7MX2ptPI
ALBUMS
Late for the War
https://www.amazon.com/Late-War-Albert-Rouzie/dp/B0BS9DQYNL/
Dreams
https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Albert-Rouzie/dp/B09XV2H5KH/
Riding the Whirlwind
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0878RQHB7/
Songs of Love and Debacle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CX5FSM8/
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BOB MONTALDO
Bob Montaldo: “Changing My Ways”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9cENF0Lwx0
Robert Clark Young, a fan, wrote, “Oh man this is great! I loved all of your piano work when I lived in Athens, 1991-98. I’ll never forget the night downstairs at Seven Sauces when those people wouldn’t stop jabbering while you played and you stood up and threw a glass against the wall and said, ‘This is MY gig!’ Roll on forever, Rolling Bob!”
Bob Montaldo: Some Music by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pwgMld0RM
BOB MONTALTO
“Waltzing with Jesus
Writer: Bob Montaldo
https://rustysmith.bandcamp.com/track/waltzing-with-jesus
Rusty Smith and Friends
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SAD GIRLS — “LOVE YOURSELF”
Track: “Love Yourself”
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“LOVE YOURSELF” CHORUS
Você não sabe como eu me sinto, quando você me critica
Eu posso e vou amar meu corpo como ele é
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You don’t know how I feel, when you criticize me
I can and will love my body as it is
You don’t know how I feel, when you criticize me
I can and will love my body as it is
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OPEN-MIC NIGHT AT OHIO UNIVERSITY’S FRONT ROOM
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/11/03/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-3-november-2023/ (3 November 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-27-october-2023/ (27 October 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-20-october-2023/ (20 October 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-13-october-2023/ (13 October 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-6-october-3023/ (6 October 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/09/29/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-29-september-2023/ (29 September 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-22-september-2023/ (22 September 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/09/15/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-15-september-2023/ (15 September 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-8-september-2013 (8 September 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/09/01/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-1-september-2023/ (1 September 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-28-april-2023/ (28 April 2023)
https://davidbruceblog43.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-21-april-2023/ (21 April 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-14-april-2023/ (14 April 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-7-april-2023/ (7 April 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-31-march-2023/ (31 March 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-24-march-2023/ (24 March 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-3-march-2023/ (3 March 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-24-february-2023/ (24 February 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-17-february-2023/ (17 February 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/5742/ (10 February 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/02/03/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-3-february-2023/ (3 February 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-ce-enter-27-january-2023/ (27 January 2023)
https://anecdotesandmusic.wordpress.com/2022/12/02/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-2-december-2022 (2 December 2022)
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/03/26/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-25-march-2022/ (25 March 2022)
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/03/19/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-18-march-2022/(18 March 2022)
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/01/29/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-28-january-2022/ (28 January 2022)
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-21-january-2022/ (21 January 2022)
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-14-january-2022/ (14 Jan 2022)
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/09/25/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-24-september-2021/ (24 September 2021)
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/09/11/baker-center-open-mic-night-9-10-2021/ (9 September 2021)
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-8-october-2021/ (8 October 2021)
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/10/16/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-15-october-2021/ (15 October 2021)
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https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room-29-october-2021/ (29 October 2021)
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https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2021/12/04/ohio-universitys-open-mic-night-at-baker-center-12-3-2021/ (3 December 2021)
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-11-12-21/(11 December 2021)
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https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/open-mic-night-at-ohio-universitys-front-room/ (21 February 2020)
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BRUCE DALZELL AT THE FRONT ROOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NONY5fAyNg
BRUCE DALZELL AT THE FRONT ROOM #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVprgqegK_U
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: WINTER WILSON: “DEADLINE” | WINTER WILSON ORIGINAL | LIVE AT THE FRONT ROOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-DKktTTFeM
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: WINTER WILSON: “SEA CHANGE” (WINTER WILSON ORIGINAL) — LIVE AT THE FRONT ROOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n4uzEAYG6E
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: ANONYMOUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFp_rpcdtw
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: ANONYMOUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a3bY-dcH5s
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: ANONYMOUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0rYvIHwlqE
A FRONT ROOM BLAST FROM THE PAST: JEWELWEED (Jackie and Aubrey) PERFORMANCE AT THE FRONT ROOM COFFEE SHOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhZVTSf4MY
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HERE ARE A FEW FRONT ROOM OPEN-MIC NIGHT GRADUATES
ANGELA PERLEY
Angela Perley and the Howlin’ Moons Wikipedia Article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Perley_and_the_Howlin%27_Moons
ANGIE HEIMANN (solo artist and member of The Howlin’ Roulettes)
CAITLIN KRAUS
CARRIE ELKIN
Carrie Elkin Wikipedia Article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Elkin
KIM RICHEY
Nominated for Grammy Award Best Country Song: “Believe Me Baby (I Lied)” at 39th Grammy Awards (1997). Trisha Yearwood recorded this song.
Kim Richey Wikipedia Article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Richey
RACHEL MOUSIE
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TOM RIGGS: Music to Consider (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/@riggsviews
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
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CAITLIN KRAUS
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Caitlin Kraus: “This Body”
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Notes for “This Body”:
A song for the rights of all: the right to be safe in our bodies, the right to make decisions for our bodies, and the right to be who we are in our bodies. (Lyrics below.) I wrote this song […] out of the need to process my anger at women’s rights being taken away and for what this means for other rights down the line. A never-ending issue it seems, but one we can’t stop fighting for. A big thank you to Tom Riggs for taking footage of my first performance of this song with Mark Hellenberg on drums at The Union in Athens, OH.