{"id":5221,"date":"2017-01-13T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2017-01-12T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T03:41:49","slug":"5221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/01\/13\/5221\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 1-13-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! Can you believe the last full week of winter break is drawing to a close? Fine, fine, we won&#8217;t mention it, excited as we are for the next batch of Core classes to start. Without further ado, here is an action-packed group of links to spice up your week!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Think about it: <em>Hamlet<\/em>, but ripped. &#8220;Sexy, bloody and fast-paced,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/leisure\/news\/15010257.Icarus_Theatre_Collective_flies_in_to_Hampshire_with_UK_Hamlet_tour\/#\">Icarus Theatre Collective&#8217;s production of the Shakespearean play<\/a> will tour the UK and Ireland. It includes a Greco-Roman-inspired design and an original musical score.<\/li>\n<li>On a similar but less muscular note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/goings-on-about-town\/classical-music\/the-met-romeo-et-juliette-review\">the final performance<\/a> of <em>Romeo et Juliette<\/em> at the Metropolitan Opera will take place this Saturday, January 14.<\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TabloidArtHist\">TabloidArtHist<\/a> is our new favorite Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TabloidArtHist\/status\/818188505675337729\">if only for this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lindsay Lohan swimming, Maui, April, 2009 \/\/ John Everett Millais, &#8216;Ophelia&#8217;, 1851 (detail) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hlaROZKWMP\">pic.twitter.com\/hlaROZKWMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TabloidArtHistory (@TabloidArtHist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TabloidArtHist\/status\/818188505675337729\">January 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Wordsworth&#8217;s &#8220;The Prelude,&#8221; addressed to fellow Romantic poet Samuel Coleridge, was recently published in a fully illustrated edition with an introduction and notes by Harvard professor James Engell and Wordsworth scholar Michael D. Raymond. Moreover, it was included in WBUR&#8217;s the ARTery&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2016\/12\/15\/poetry-books\">5 Poetry Books with a Boston Connection You Should Read<\/a>.&#8221; How&#8217;s that for city pride?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just for fun:<\/strong> Walt Whitman&#8217;s guide to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/30\/books\/walt-whitman-promoted-a-paleo-diet-who-knew.html?_r=0\">Manly Health and Training<\/a>,&#8221; a roughly 47,000-word journalistic series found 150 years after its publication by a graduate student two summers back. Among other things, Whitman promotes a mostly carnivorous diet as well and decries inactivity. (For the record, the author of this blog post is 0\/2 so far.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/04\/30\/arts\/30WHITMANLEDE\/30WHITMANLEDE-blog427.jpg\" class=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"302\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pinnacle of masculine fitness, Walt Whitman himself. (via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All right, show&#8217;s over. Everybody go home (or return to campus&#8230;?). Come back next week for the first installment of spring semester!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! Can you believe the last full week of winter break is drawing to a close? Fine, fine, we won&#8217;t mention it, excited as we are for the next batch of Core classes to start. Without further ado, here is an action-packed group of links to spice up your week! 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