{"id":55,"date":"2012-08-05T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:21:19","slug":"deliberate-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/05\/deliberate-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliberate misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commshakes.org\/performances\/Shakespeare-on-the-Common\">Shakespeare on the (Boston) Common<\/a>\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coriolanus\">Coriolanus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I must be honest &#8211; I had not read the play. We read the obligatory tragedies in high school: <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>, <em>Hamlet<\/em> and <em>Macbeth<\/em>. Also, we went to see <em>The Taming of the Shrew<\/em> as performed by an all-female cast (awesome). In college, I took a class on Shakespeare&#8217;s comedies:\u00a0<em>All&#8217;s Well that Ends Well<\/em>, <em>As You Like It<\/em>, T<em>he Merchant of Venice<\/em>, <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em>, <em>Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>, <em>Twelfth Night <\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Winter&#8217;s Tale.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite only reading the synopsis on Wikipedia and skimming the first scene, I think I followed along pretty well. And I enjoyed the play. And the actress who played Volumnia was amazing. But I really couldn&#8217;t understand why it was a tragedy. Coriolanus isn&#8217;t a tragic hero; he&#8217;s a rich douchebag.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking &#8211; maybe this was a commentary on Mitt Romney? If so, might I recommend the following line to be inserted somewhere in III, i?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Junius Brutus<\/strong>: So, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, do you follow chariot racing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coriolanus<\/strong>: Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are chariot team owners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer&#8217;s Shakespeare on the (Boston) Common\u00a0is Coriolanus. I must be honest &#8211; I had not read the play. We read the obligatory tragedies in high school: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth. Also, we went to see &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/05\/deliberate-misunderstanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}