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Fourth o' Many: Gilgamesh LIVES!! (and the evils o' theatre) |
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*dances around* I have material! I can truly begin my research on the Epic of Gilgamesh! Huzzah! I found some good resources, too. Here's just a sample of the stuff that I've found:
The Epic of Gilgamesh (written in prose form, but still ok, any translation is a good one).
Gilgamesh: A Reader, edited by John Maier (featuring Rivkah Harris's article entitled "Images of Women in the Gilgamesh Epic" Just what I'm looking for.)
Music of the Sumerians. (because theatre needs music, folks, and I'm going to be aiming for a ritualistic feel for this project anyway)
And various websites. So all this business will begin tonight. I only wish my copier works so I can use my highlighter on the important parts. Curses, Hilton M. Briggs Library, only allowing me to check out the material for a mere month! Know they not the greatness of my quest!
*blink blink*
So I've got this class, folks. It's called Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Yeah, it sounds real dry, but it's actually pretty interesting. And, well, we've been reading these dramatic theories and dramatic criticisms working our way from Plato and Aristotle on forwards through time. Well, now we've gotten into Renaissance England, just before those wacky Puritans took over the country. *sigh*
It's really no fun to read about how the theatre is Satan's "school to work and teach his desire to bring men and women into his snare of concupiscence [a strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust] and filthy lusts of wicked whoredom..." My dear friend John Northbrooke continued to write "... common players in interludes are to be taken for rogues and punishment is appointed for them to be burnt through the ear with a hot iron of an inch [in] compass, and for the second fault to be hanged as a felon, etc. The reason is for that their trade is such an idle, loitering life, a practice to all mischief..."
Ouch! It's depressing, even to know that those particular ideals were held over four hundred years ago. The funny thing is, my class realized that the same basic ideas which formed Northbrooke's statements and opinions are still around today: humans are evil by nature, and that one step in the wrong direction can lead to oblivion and eternal damnation.
*sigh* "A little sparkle of fire cast into straw beginneth quickly to kindle and flame. Our flesh is straw and will burn quickly, and for that cause the Holy Ghost setteth David for an example to us, that we should beware of such contagiousness..."
Thanks Northbrooke. Here's today's brain thinky moment.
3867. Teach a man to set a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
No comic linky today. Too depressed about being a heathen doomed for the hot iron and then the noose.
 Adeiras · Mon Sep 27, 2004 @ 06:31pm · 2 Comments |
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