I don't care if I'm teaching the class tonight or not, I absolutely refuse, flat-out, no questions asked REFUSE to read the last speech of Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedy of Mariam" simply because it covers three pages and over 100 lines. Who needs to talk that long? No one! Not even King Herod (and no, not the one that killed JtB). It was a stupid, bad, AWFUL play, which really makes me sad, since just about all of the plays we've read so far have been great, and this is the only one out of the bunch that was written by a woman (feminism for the suck). The only thing I can say in its defense is that it had an awesome fight scene between Salome's husband and her lover (again, not the Salome of JtB fame), and also that it was never meant to be performed, only read. Even still, I'm totally not going to sit there and read that! And so, instead, I'm going to go find dinner and try to think up some crap to talk about for tonight's class.

mood: indescribable