“Poe Pourri” (part 1 of 3) — Beetlejuice takes on a certain prophetic and portentous fowl. And a darkly mordant poet, mourning his lost Lenore. You get the picture.
The Thaumaturgy Department
thaumaturg
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
Amazing infographic of Poe death scenes (via Edgar Allan Poe death scenes - graphic | Books | guardian.co.uk)
A mini-bio of a maxi-man.
A short video biography of Edgar Allan Poe, the multi-faceted, charter member of Baltimore’s Weirdness Hall of Fame. And that, dear Tumblrites, is one full hall. #CSPoe
POE-turgy. Of the delicious sort.
Follow the magic link for, well, loads more links — some of the research (and other tidbits) compiled and explored around Poe the play, Poe the man, and related topics. And when you’re talking Poe, related takes on a whole new world of fraught implications. Read on for more. #CSPoe.
As Enemy of the People finishes 1st weekend, so great that audiences are responding strongly to these (among others) divergent and sometimes competing strains in national discourse and cultural aspiration, as highlighted in the play and our efforts to frame the conversation.
Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems
Welcome to PoeStories.com
This site contains short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, story summaries, quotes, and linked vocabulary words and definitions for educational reading. It also includes a short biography, a timeline of Poe’s life, and links to other Poe sites.
The Literary Gothic: Gothic fiction and horror literature resources
Links to overviews, directories, collections, webrings, essays, and more online resources for gothic lit.
“ Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
~Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”
Gothic Labyrinth
The Gothic Labyrinth introduces gothic writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring their sources and inspirations as well as their influence on other artists. This is intended for entertainment only, as a form of literary trivia. Continue the ripple effect by sending in your own literary anecdotes. At the center of the maze is Horace Walpole. From there, four main paths branch off, each terminating in a painting which crystallizes some aspect of dark romanticism.
Counterintuitive digital media assignments
From the education blog The Note on my Door:
Counterintuitive digital media assignments Over the last week in my new first-year undergraduate course, Media Fluency for the Digital Age, my students have been wrestling with a very counterintuitive digital media assignment, and I think it’s worth exploring why these members of the “born digital” generation found this assignment so difficult — and so rewarding….
Read on for the rest.
King Institute Encyclopedia
Massive and extensively cross-linked online encyclopedia of all things MLK, civil rights, and historical.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners.
“Richmond Jews: A Curious Confederate History” By Janet Lubman Rathner
In what might seem to many as highly unusual, and a strange allegiance, Richmond, Va., is home to the Soldiers’ Section at Hebrew Cemetery, believed to be the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel.
Jewish presence in Richmond predates its designation as a city and state capital, and, for that matter, Virginia’s designation as a state.
Jews were among the colonists who established Jamestown in 1607, and may well have been in the group of 120 men who left that enclave days later to sail up what is now known as the James River, in the first effort to settle an area that today is part of downtown Richmond.
At the time of Richmond’s founding in 1737, Jews were engaged in trade throughout the Virginia Territory. By 1790, approximately 100 of the 3,700 colonists calling Richmond home were Jews. On Shabbat, they gathered at the Orthodox Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, a synagogue that followed Sephardic ritual worship.
With the arrival of more Ashkenazi Jews, a second synagogue, Beth Ahabah, was established in 1841. Khal Kadosh Beth Shalome eventually merged with Beth Ahabah, which continues to this day as a Reform house of worship and is the sixth-oldest synagogue in the United States.
