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We saw Equivocation at the Seattle Rep Buy Valium No Prescription, on Thanksgiving Eve. I wanted to like it more than I did. But at least now I can tell you, Valium pharmacy, unequivocally - the King is hiding inside, Buy Valium no prescription, and you're free to take him off my hands - off all of our hands. It's long past time to think power without the king.

I am highly sympathetic with Bill Cain's project here, buy no prescription Valium online. In Equivocation he revives the many topical and political resonances of Shakespeare's plays for a 21st century audience unfamiliar with the period, rescuing them from the discredit that the "authorship question" people - who use them to argue someone more highly born and politically connected than Shakespeare must have written the plays - and the "royal flattery" people - who say Shakespeare used them to flatter King James, patron of his company The King's Men - have brought upon them, Buy Valium No Prescription. Cain even takes aim at the New Historicism (now getting pretty old itself...) by putting its central tenet - that Shakespeare had the knack of seeming to everyone to be on their side, Order Valium no prescription, and not the other ("there is no end of subversion - only not for us") - in Robert Cecil's mouth, and making it the putative reason why Cecil and James choose Shag (Cain's moniker for Shakespeare) for the task of penning a propagandistic account of the Gunpowder Plot.

Indeed, buy Valium in canada, despite my own extensive background in these matters, Rx free Valium, even I came away with new things to chew on. I suppose I must once have heard that Polonius in Hamlet parodies the late William Cecil, order Valium from mexican pharmacy, Queen Elizabeth's chief advisor, Buy Valium without a prescription, but if so I had forgotten the allusion and never completely appreciated it. Cain also has Garnet the Father of equivocation provide Shag and us with a very illustrative example (how to answer traitors who come to door to capture and kill the rightful king you are hiding, which I myself allude to in the first paragraph), online buy Valium without a prescription, and has great fun with another allusion that makes a lot of sense - that William Cecil's son Robert is parodied in Richard III - as well as a couple that seem intriguing but don't quite wash - that if King James is flattered in Banquo, Cecil's nihilism is parodied in Macbeth. Buy Valium No Prescription, He even makes up some cockamamie story that Cecil can't stand the word "tomorrow" - and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

The Polonius / William Cecil parody got me thinking even more later - the way it might actually work (since as Robert Cecil points out here, Valium over the counter, why make fun of an advisor several years deceased?) is that that makes Laertes Robert Cecil, Where can i buy Valium online, Hamlet Essex - and King James Claudius: “Is thy Union here. Follow my mother," as noted in my Jude Law, Valium samples, Hamlet post. Purchase Valium online, But that's a longer story left untold at the untimely end of my academic career that I'll have to defer till yet another day.

In the upshot I didn't like Equivocation as much as I'd hoped. First off - it's a bit of a mess, Buy Valium No Prescription. The play's all over the place:

Shag receives absolution from one Gunpowder Plotter, where can i order Valium without prescription, and gives absolution to another

Hamlet, Order Valium, Richard III, Lear, Macbeth, Valium price, and the Romances are all discussed, Buy cheap Valium no rx, alluded to, excerpted

Cain regurgitates his favorite bits from the best Shakespeare lectures he's ever heard

he puts Macbeth (mainly) through the cuisinart to create his own Gunpowder Plot play (Write Like Shakespeare might have helped)

Hamnet and Judith are both in it

Cain's fond of scenes with manly men making theater together between brawls to show just how manly they are

James isn't just gay - Shag actually interrupts him in bed with another man (Buckingham?)

And Cain's odd way of praising the bard with feigned damnation - seemingly as a way to counter any skepticism of his genius among the audience, and to stick it to the above-mentioned New Historicists - grated me, Valium from canadian pharmacy, particularly when, Where can i buy cheapest Valium online, summed up, it only amounted to another brand of bardolatry.

I think boiled down, buy cheapest Valium, the main line of plot development lost amid this mess is, Purchase Valium online no prescription, basically:

Shag discovers that Cecil and James set up the whole Gunpowder Plot for propaganda purposes

he sympathizes with the plotters and pities their horrible executions - so much so he even intervenes at the end in Garnet's

he pens a play that would expose it all and get the entire company killed - especially since they are to perform it for James first

the company makes a collective decision to do Macbeth instead

Shag nevertheless does manage to get some of the zingers planned for the lost Gunpowder Plot play into Macbeth

and gets the chance to confront Cecil about all this

but none of it matters - James delights in plausible deniability

ironically Cecil's line outlasts everyone else's and bears no hereditary guilt today

Shag performs the penance Garnet assigns him, lets go of his lost son Hamnet and reconciles with Hamnet's twin Judith

Judith wrote the romances - well, they were stories Shag overheard when she lamented his abandonment of her - and that's what Shakespeare wrote that had the most mass appeal (even if in Cain's view they are crap plays with none of this high class political intrigue going on)

In the end, buy Valium online cod, this fantasy of Shakespeare directly confronting and being manipulated by Cecil and James is almost as bad as what the authorship question people do: Shakespeare's actual audience that came to the Globe is unimportant - a bunch of plebs who preferred Pericles (can you believe it) to Macbeth - compared to the high and mighty of Shakespeare's day and their power struggles. Australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, paypal, Central to this fantasy is Cain's notion of a long personal feud between Shakespeare and Cecil (dating all the way back to Richard III): to counter the authorship people, Cain proposes that Shakespeare had a place of his own at the table of the great, however begrudgingly secured, Valium for sale.

And it also ignores there is all kinds of political intrigue going on in the Romances - though not something that played out in dramatic personal scenes between Shakespeare, Buy Valium from mexico, the king, and his highest councilor. Buy Valium No Prescription, Rather it's directed where it could have an effect some 30 years later in overthrowing James' heir Charles - at the political unconscious of its mass audience, pitting humane fantasy against propagandistic ideology to convince a nation maybe they didn't need a king after all, that maybe Parliament alone was enough, and they had the right to execute that king for his crimes against them. He wasn't God's anointed after all.., buy Valium online no prescription.

But again, Online buying Valium, that's a longer story for another day - part of which I've already told, though in an academic manner that seems curiously foreign to me now. Maybe I'll find the time to tell a more compelling version of it someday - perhaps in a more tightly constructed and deeply considered play than even this one proved to be, buy generic Valium, alas. Where can i find Valium online, Or maybe I could just give Bill Cain some advice on his next one. Couldn't hurt - and I'm way too busy making a more conventional living, and too lacking in connections to the theater industry, to write and produce a play myself. Just drop me a comment, Bill, if you'd like to chat. Maybe you'd be interested in the Pericles project I could never get Bart Sher to consider.