THE KING OF ITHACA

               


Troilus and Cressida
(/ˈtrɔɪləs ən ˈkrɛsdə/) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. However, several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly "modern," as in the following remarks on the play by author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates:
Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays, strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document—its investigation of numerous infidelities, its criticism of tragic pretensions, above all, its implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential are themes of the twentieth century. ... This is tragedy of a special sort—the "tragedy" the basis of which is the impossibility of conventional tragedy
[WIKIPEDIA]

ULYSSES, APPEARS, IN, THIS, PLAY, AS, 'THE KING OF ITHACA'.....

OF, COURSE, SHAKESPEARE, IS, A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, A PSEUDONYM USED 
BY MORE THAN ONE WRITER.

 WATCHED 'THE WHOLE TRUTH'[2016] MOVIE, WITH KEANU REEVES, LAST NIGHT.

A VERY INTERESTING PLOT, BASED, ON THE PREMISE, THAT 'EVERYONE LIES',
PERHAPS ECHOES PRIOR, LITERARY, 'CLASSICS'.?
MR KEANU REEVES, A HAWAIIAN AMERICAN ACTOR, RIDES A BMW MOTORCYCLE,
IN THIS DEVIL'S ADVOCATE MOVIE.

THE SUBLIMINAL BACKGROUND PROPS, 'VERITAS EX MEMORIA' ETC IN THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA COURTROOM ARE VERY INTERESTING  AS IS THE VERY WEIRD
ACTING OF JIM BELUSHI.

RENEE ZELLWEGER, IS MISCAST AND  HER ONE FACETED, SMIRK FILLED,
GORMLESS EXPRESSIONS, ARE 'PAR FOR THE COURSE' IN THISWEIRD  MOVIE.

BUT IT  IS MR REEVES,WHO REALLY EXCELS, IN WOODEN ACTING, METHODOLOGY.

PERHAPS, HE REMEMBERS, 'BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES?'...AS A YOUTH?.

AFTER ALL, BLACK TRENCH COATED MURDERS, IN  AMERICA, ARE NOTHING NEW?

COLUMBINE, ETC.


ANYWAYS, THE SCRIPTING IN  'THE WHOLE TRUTH', WHICH PATENTLY USES,
'TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD', COURTROOM  ANTICS, TO PROMOTE A FALSE ETHOS,

MURDER, KID GETTING RAPED BY  HIS DAD ALCOHOL  VIOLENCE, ETC..
IS YET AGAIN PROBABLY CANNABIS INSPIRED...CAIN NEVER FORGET WAS
A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING.

THE PHRASE, 'TRENCHCOAT MAFIA', HAS ASSUMED THE STATUS OF
'BUNCH OF LOSERS', IN STREET TERMINOLOGY.
JEFF BRIDGES OF COURSE KNOWS ALL ABOUT 'MULLET MAFIA' ACTORS..
OUT OF WORK ACTORS NEED TO GET A JOB..ASAP AS THEY BECOME
USELESS ANNOYING MOANING BASTARDS  ALWAYS MOPING AROUND THE HOUSE
STIRRING UP NON-EXISTENT PROBLEMS WITH THEIR FAMILIES..
SHUFFLING AROUND LIKE A LARGE RICHARD THE THIRD STINKING THE PLACE OUT

ACTORS NEED TO BE KEPT BUSY.

 IN NEW YORK CITY THE DISTRICT OF ITHACA HAS MANY THEATRES....
BUT THE KING?...OF ALL SHAKESPEARIAN WORKS IS?...
 MERCURIUS  DUPLEX THE 'SPIRIT'OF ACTING WHO FIRST 'APPEARED'
 IN THE 'METHOD-ACTING',
OF?...RICHARD BURBAGE....LONG BEFORE CINEMA..

Burbage's power and scope as an actor is revealed in the sheer size of the roles he played. He was a great box office draw. Of the hundreds of plays and thousands of roles for actors that date from the 1580–1610 era, there are only twenty or so roles that are longer than 800 lines. Edward Alleyn was the first English actor to manage such roles, in Marlowe's Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta; but the majority of these star roles, thirteen of the twenty, were acted by Burbage.[1]He was said to be quite rich because he was earning income from being the primary housekeeping of two playhouses, a sharer in the King's Men, a lead actor and occasionally a few paintings.
His acting style is closely compared with the method that actors use today called method acting; it would be another four centuries before this came into popularity. He was described as being short and stout, but said to be an impressive figure, with numerous praises written of him in contemporary accounts
[Wikipedia]

Of the many elegies that followed his passing, perhaps the most poignant is the brief epitaph:

Exit Burbage

MR KEANU REEVES JUST WHY? DID YOU RIDE THAT BMW?..

[THE GAME IS OVER HUNGUS..]

'BEEMER' IN STREET IS OF COURSE COCAINE.


 I WONDER DID LLOYD BRIDGES, THE FAMOUS ACTOR, EVER WORK IN ITHACA?
WHO KNOWS?..MAYBE HE ONCE SMOKED? A LOT OF HOLLYWOOD 'STARS' WERE
PAID TO ADVERTISE BRANDS..

A CIGARETTE OR A CIGAR? MAYBE  A ROMEO Y JULIETA?.. DUDE..ENTIENDES?...

NICE TO SEE JEFF BRIDGES, LOOKING GOOD IN  'HELL OR HIGH WATER'..[MOVIE].

HE REALLY IS A GOOD MOVIE ACTOR...WITH HIS INDIAN GUIDE 'PARTNER', IN TEXAS...

MAYBE THE SCENE IN THE DINER, IS ANOTHER MEMORY?..OF MEDINA- A TOWN 
IN TEXAS? 
DRINKING MY COFFEE.


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