“Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer." "Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah; if you knew! And can you believe me to be so while I see you so wretched!" - Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 29 Happiness and suffering, and the emotional extremes that cause it, is an important... Continue Reading →
Preview of Pride and Prejudice at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
(Can you identify the four Bennet sisters left to right in this photo? Answer at bottom of post!) Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice continues to allow us to “make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn” as a new stage production opened on February 21st, 2010 at the Oregon... Continue Reading →