Founding Foundlings There is a world elsewhere. - Coriolanus, in Shakespeare’s play Mater abest ex quo condidimus moenia Romae, Lupa sed adveniens celebrabimus orgia festis. - Ioannes Darnelius Rome is my home, my cannibal mother. I’m nursed on blood my own and another’s. On praetorian plots and poisons I suckle, My meat has been the sinister chuckle. I masticate murders and parricide. I gorge on the gore of Tarpeia’s south side And saturnine pies with children inside. Shout from the roof of Pantheon’s dome: There will be a party when wolf comes home! We’ll feast on a beast of delectable pride, And drink up the blood of cannibal mother, As soon as I smother another brother.
Funny that you posted this last night, almost exactly coinciding with my family's dinner table conversation about Nero and cannibalism. I also don't get the pop culture references (but then again, I'm one of the youths, so maybe not the target audience for hipster allusions), but this was a fun read!
It reminds me of your excellent Women of Greece play, in the attitude or 'way of looking' it has toward Antiquity. I've read it twice now, and I liked it even more the second time. Have they performed it yet?
Funny that you posted this last night, almost exactly coinciding with my family's dinner table conversation about Nero and cannibalism. I also don't get the pop culture references (but then again, I'm one of the youths, so maybe not the target audience for hipster allusions), but this was a fun read!
Downright despicable, fiendish fun. I didn't get any of the pop culture references, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
I'm glad! The pop references ought to function as an Easter egg, independent from full appreciation.
It reminds me of your excellent Women of Greece play, in the attitude or 'way of looking' it has toward Antiquity. I've read it twice now, and I liked it even more the second time. Have they performed it yet?
Not yet! I need to ask about the table reading.
Coriolanus is one of my favorite plays. Ralph Fiennes and Gerrard Butler did a really good movie version of it as well
Yes, I watched that recently. Really good!
I thought that all the main characters were really well played. Aufidius, Marcus Tullius, his mother, Menenius, the works
Cauis Martin's, Marcus Tullius is from a different play...