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Midaslive-tweets from The Shakespeare Institute's Before Shakespeare marathon
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Today @ShakesInstitute : 10.30: Midas (Lyly) 14.30: King Lear and his Three Daughters Come & read #B4shakes7:20 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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For those following #b4shakes, we're switching hashtag midstream to #b4shax.9:33 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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For those following #b4shakes, we're switching hashtag midstream to #b4shax.9:34 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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HASHTAG CHANGE! #b4shax is the new hashtag to follow the @ShakesInstitute marathon (the old #b4shakes seems to have broken twitter9:35 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shax !! (not #b4shakes anymore) twitter.com/SI_Marathon/st…9:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shakes is now #b4shaxAs I shd have said 2 wks ago, I'm live-tweeting readings at the Shax Institute marathon. Mute #b4shax if you like x9:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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An audience address beginning 'Gentlemen'. Hmmmm. #b4shax9:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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But note the second of Lyly's two statements on genre (the first in Endymion's prologue). #b4shax9:45 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Salads for the Italians #b4shax9:46 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Lyly's prologue speaker looks into the audience and decides that the best word to describe them is 'Gentlemen'. #b4shax9:47 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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@andykesson opens Midas by VERY ANGRILY declaring that 'The whole world is become an HODGE-PODGE!' #b4shax9:47 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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comedy, tragedy, pastoral #b4shax9:48 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Soldiers want tragedy, courtiers comedy, countrymen pastorals. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…9:48 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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If we present a mingle-mangle, our fault is to be excused, because the whole world is become a hodgepodge. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…9:49 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Starting #Midas with the new hashtag: #b4shax. Although we're still having trouble with @B4Shakes and @JoeDramaTurg not appearing. @Support9:49 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Lyly has a reputation as a sycophant, but his audience addresses always put me in mind of Basil Fawlty. #b4shax twitter.com/fiddlersjig/st…9:50 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"It is a world for gold; honour and love are both taken up on interest." Once again, how timely. #b4shax9:52 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Moving to the new hashtag #b4shax, we find this lovely tweet from @jackiewatson05 after my first ever talk on this (then fledgling) project. twitter.com/jackiewatson05…9:52 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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What's Anubis doing alongside Neptune, Æsculapius and Apollo in Mellacrites' comparison of gods? #b4shax9:53 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Jen Waghorn@fiddlersjig
Gold is but the guts of the earth #b4shax9:54 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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M.Wiggins informs me that it's from Lucian. Thanks! #b4shax twitter.com/fiddlersjig/st…9:55 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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These minglemangle, hodgepodge words are unusual in Lyly's work, but continue into this play: 'other kingdoms be turned topsyturvy'. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…9:56 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Sir boy, you must not be saucy. #b4shax9:57 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shaxMellacrites' rhetoric wins the day, convincing #Midas with Latin, logic, and puns to ask that everything he touches turn to gold.9:57 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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'caps, hats, clothes, earrings': in the midst of a massive list of clothes, I'm very fond of the word 'clothes' getting a shoutout. #b4shax10:01 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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'The masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine... we change not our sex.' An awful lot about gender in play's 2nd scene. #b4shax10:02 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Jupiter becoming a golden shower, always prominent in Lyly's references, appears twice at the start of Midas. #b4shax10:05 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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thy effeminate mind, whose eyes are stitched on Celia's face
'My thoughts are stitched to the stars' appears twice in Lyly. #b4shax10:09 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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learned about bee-talk at The Hive, now off to Stratford Upon Avon for some early modern talk. #b4shax10:13 AM - Jun 24, 2017 · Kew Gardens
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The sun is rather a cock than a hen. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:14 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"Gold is but the earth's garbage, a weed bred by the sun, the very rubbish of barren ground." Cf. Milton's treatment of mining. #b4shax10:14 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Martius is very very fighty but no one wants to join in. A less powerful , peacetime Tamburlaine parallel? #b4shax10:14 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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See you shortly. I've put you down to read, so get practicing on the train. #b4shax twitter.com/roboyates/stat…10:14 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Actually, even better, cf. @justindclemens' article on Milton and mining. #b4shax #Midasacademia.edu/4802769/Mining… twitter.com/andthomorrow/s…10:16 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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For it is called egg, as a thing that doth egg on (Midas). #b4shax twitter.com/RhysJBevan/sta…10:16 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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I only understand the first word of this tweet, but I enjoyed it very much. #b4shax twitter.com/Orlandocreatur…10:18 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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You're very kind. Before Before Shakespeare. #b4shax #b4b4shax twitter.com/jackiewatson05…10:18 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Have not I made the sea to groan under the number of my ships?
Lyly brings Midas as close to Philip of Spain as possible. #b4shax10:20 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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In short, gold as simultaneously too useful and too useless. #b4shax twitter.com/andthomorrow/s…10:21 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shaxAs with #Faustus, #Midas has an idea of building a bridge (of gold) as an example of something great he could have done.10:22 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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If I be rid of this intollerable disease of gold, I will next shake off that intemperate desire of government. #b4shax twitter.com/andthomorrow/s…10:23 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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But when Midas prioritises 'not the greatness of my mind but the right of my succession', might he sound more like Elizabeth? #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:24 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Dello's first scene is unusually complex in its narrative positioning: the audience needs to work out what's happened backstage. #b4shax10:26 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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I instructed thee in the phrases of our eloquent occupation
'Occupation' becoming a less contested word? #b4shax twitter.com/fiddlersjig/st…10:26 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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I am a barber and cannot tittle-tattle. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:27 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shax #MidasMW sings about a toothache with both a bluebottle voice and a toothache effect.10:33 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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#b4shax twitter.com/_Andrea1991/st…10:36 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Crying with laughter at M.Wiggins, Pete Malin & @adambcqx's Toothache Song.(closest thing we'll get to a barbershop quartet) #b4shax10:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Dancing is love sauce.
Cf. 'Grapes are mind-glasses' (Sappho). #b4shax10:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Amerula, if you were not bitter, your name had been ill bestowed.
First time in the corpus someone comments on allegorical names? #b4shax10:39 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Erato is a nymph, according to Pausanius. (from Theoi.com) #b4shax10:42 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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A ruler lusting after gold and 'golden showers'. Hmmmmmm. #b4shax10:42 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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At Act 4 the play seems to introduce a new Midas story. Some critics think the play broken-backed or amalgamated from 2 parts. #b4shax10:44 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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But Leah Scragg has usefully identified instead a second phase in Lyly's theatrical career. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:45 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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After four plays in close dialogue (Camp, Sappho, Galatea & Endymion), Lyly writes four plays in differing modes. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:46 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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And, a few minutes later, "Pan is all." #b4shax #Midas twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:47 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Thia - a Titan not a nymph according toTheoi.com .Thalia as emended by Daniel is a muse & a grace. (Erato also a muse) #b4shax10:48 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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How are the audience expected to judge Midas' judging? #b4shax10:50 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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I brook not that nice tickling of strings; that contents me that makes one start. #b4shax10:51 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Then again, is the narrative transition in this play so random? Both parts of Midas' story arc = about his body, touch & judgement. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…10:53 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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'Ah Midas, why was not thy whole body metamorphosed, that there might have been no part left of Midas?'(soul notwithstanding?) #b4shax10:54 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Here we learn the Elizabethan island Midas intends to invade is called 'Lesbos'. Cf. Sappho? #b4shax10:54 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"Scae. 2. (A reedy place.)" #b4shax10:56 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Here are four random shepherds, each with classical names. But the audience only hears one character's name. #b4shax10:59 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Is not hunting a tedious occupation #b4shax11:00 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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The failure to signal characters' names particularly striking in Lyly's work, since Lyly's characters highly vocative to one another #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…11:01 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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@andykesson is reduced to frantically making other animal sounds to counteract Martin's cat machine. Apparently the fox says 'woof'. #b4shax11:01 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Dost thou not understand their language?
A new set of jargon in a Lyly play, sparked by the hunstman. Cf. Galatea, esp. Diana. #b4shax11:02 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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For now when he should execute, he begins to consult.
Is this whole play worrying away at the idea of monarchical consultation? #b4shax11:05 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Foxes bark and I refuse to back down on this matter. #b4shax twitter.com/fiddlersjig/st…11:06 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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This is excellent news. #b4shax twitter.com/philistella/st…11:07 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Then doubt not, if courage and coin can prevail, but we shall prevail: and besides, nothing can prevail but fortune.#b4shax11:09 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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When the landscape speaks. #b4shax11:09 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Eristus, Martius, Mellacrites - courtier, soldier & what? seeker after wealth? #b4shax11:10 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Is it also worrying away at court and national knowledge? Rumours-networks seem to define every part of the play. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…11:13 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Latin-Greek mashup: sweet judge? #b4shax twitter.com/adambcqx/statu…11:15 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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the reedes - an aural effect #b4shax11:15 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"whosoeuer is so bolde as to say that Mydas hath asses eares, shal presently lose his" M.Wiggins reminds us this is penalty 4 libel #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…11:19 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Methinks Venus & Nature stand with each of them a pair of bellows, one cooling my low birth, the other kindling my lofty affections #b4shax11:20 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Marry gup, is "melancholy" a word for a barber's mouth? Thou shouldst say "heavy, dull & doltish". #b4shax11:20 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"Melancholy" is the crest of courtier's arms, & now every base companion, being in his mubblefubbles, says he is melancholy. #b4shax11:21 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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We've reached the exchange that @_erinsullivan_ discusses so perceptively in Beyond Melancholy. #Midas #b4shax11:22 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Now every base companion, being in his muble fubles, says he is melancholy. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…11:22 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Mubblefubbles: another hodgepodge word. #b4shax twitter.com/andykesson/sta…11:22 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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I enjoy my ears.
Good to see sensible, realistic early modern enjoyment. #b4shax11:24 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Melancholy is for courtiers, not barbers #dumps #b4shax11:25 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Motto protests by all the barbers' tools: 'our secret occupation (for you know it is no blabbing art)' #b4shax11:27 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Melancholy, from Greek, in contrast with the Anglo-Saxon sounding "lumpish", "heavy", and "dull", as @_erinsullivan_ explores. #b4shax twitter.com/adambcqx/statu…11:27 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Two pauses in the dialogue called for in the SD as Midas waits for Apollo's prophecy. 1st cue for silence in the corpus? #b4shax11:29 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Philip the Second of Spain #Midas #b4shax11:29 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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The oracle in smaller type than the rest in Q - G3r - (similarly the words of Apollo on G4r) #b4shax11:32 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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"... to nail the crown of Phrygia fast to my daughter's head ... "- the violence of royal inheritance. #b4shax11:34 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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We were all very struck by it, I think! #b4shax twitter.com/_erinsullivan_…11:36 AM - Jun 24, 2017 · Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
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Midas: 'Lesbos will not be touched by force: the gods have pitched it out of the world as not to be controlled by any in the world.' #b4shax twitter.com/adambcqx/statu…11:36 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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Midas. "Fortunate Midas, that feelst thy head lightened of dull ears, and thy heart of deadly sorrows." Interesting echo. #b4shax11:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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These pauses aren't indicated as SDs in the quarto1592 #b4shax twitter.com/fiddlersjig/st…11:37 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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You're very welcome! #b4shax twitter.com/_erinsullivan_…11:38 AM - Jun 24, 2017 · Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
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The songs added in 1632 Q (they aren't in 1st Q) but they're considered original. #b4shax11:39 AM - Jun 24, 2017
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