Sunday, December 4, 2016

The Classics

School has been very busy, and I haven't taken the time to update what I have been reading, so here goes:

For classes, I read Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

Then I read two Shakespeare-derived plays, both entitled Desdemona, the first by Toni Morrison and the second by Paula Vogel. So much more to say about these two adaptations/transformations/feminist reactions of/to Othello.

Lastly, because I went to see The Great Comet on Broadway, I read and am still in the process of reading War and Peace for pleasure. I read the up to the part the musical is based on before seeing it, and now I am continuing on from there. Truly this should count as 3 books. I am enjoying it very much, though, as a break from school-related things.