John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Your Letter gave me more delight than any thing in the world but yourself could do 

Write me ever so few lines and tell me you will never for ever be less kind to me than yesterday - You dazzled me - There is nothing in the world so bright and delicate

 I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further.  You have absorb'd me

You are always new

if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures

Even my jealousies have been agonies of Love, in the hottest fit I ever had I would have died for you

I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving

There may be a sort of love for which, without the least sneer at it, I have the highest respect and can admire it in others: but it has not the richness, the bloom, the full form, the enchantment of love after my own heart

Do not I see a heart naturally furnish'd with wings imprison itself with me?

 "If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory 

the very first week I knew you I wrote myself your vassal; but burnt the Letter as the very next time I saw you I thought you manifested some dislike to me

That Thrush is a fine fellow.  I hope he was fortunate in his choice this year.

I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else

You absorb me in spite of myself - you alone

When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you

Meantime you must write to me as I will every week for your letters keep me alive. My sweet Girl I cannot speak my love for you.

 My Love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you

I love you ever and ever and without reserve. The more I have known you the more have I lov'd.

how horrid was the chance of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms

the morning is always restorative

I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you

I fear I am too prudent for a dying kind of Lover

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things

I have lick'd it but it remains very purplue [for purple].  I did not know whether to say purple or blue, so in the mixture of the thought wrote purplue which may be an excellent name for a colour made up of those two

love me for ever
JK

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Violence in Shakespearian England

Wars, uprisings and plots:

• Irish Revolt
• Guy Fawkes Plot
• Spanish Armada and Anglo-Spanish civil war
• Ridolfi Plot
• Essex rebellion

As a result, anyone suspected of treason would be investigated, given a show trial, tortured and executed, with Elizabeth I's spymaster Walsingham proving very effective at rooting out traitors such as Mary Queen of Scots.


Torture instruments:

• The Rack
• The Scavenger's Daughter
• The Collar
• The Iron Maiden
• Branding Irons
• The Wheel
• Thumbscrews
• The Gossip's Bridle or the Brank
• The Drunkards Cloak
• Ducking stools
• The Pillory and the Stocks
• Assorted instruments designed to inflict intense pain
• Whipping
• Cutting
• Branding and Burning
• Pressing
• Boiling in oil water or lead (usually reserved for poisoners )
• Starvation in a public place
• Cutting off various items of the anatomy - hands, ears etc

Shot Types

ECU/Extreme close up

Close Up/CU

Mid Close Up/MCU

Mid Shot/MS

Mid Long Shot/MLS

Long Shot/LS

Extreme Long Shot/ELS

Canted Angle

Low Angle

High Angle

Two Shot

Disease in Shakespearian England

 DISEASE: the plague swept through London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3, and 1603, with the ones in 1563 and 1603 each wiping out over one quarter of London's population. During the outbreak of 1592-93, the Crown ordered the complete closure of all theatres in London.

Plague Symptons: Swellings (some ‘as large as an apple’) in the groin/armpits, Swellings spread around the body, black and red spots on the skin, rash, pain all over, lethargy, increased body temperature, speech less intelligible, deliria, lymphatic glands became swollen and inflamed, buboes, bleeding underneath the skin

The average time of death from the first symptom was between four to seven days. It is thought that between 50% and 75% of those who caught the disease died. 

The smallpox virus caused causes high fever, vomiting, excessive bleeding, and pus-filled scabs that leave deep pitted scars. The Queen recovered from smallpox but she was rendered completely bald and forced to wear an extra thick layer of make-up made from white lead and egg whites.

Syphilis caused raging fever (referred to as "burnt blood"), tortuous body aches, blindness, full body pustules, meningitis, insanity, and leaking heart valves

Epidemics of louse-borne typhus ravaged London several times during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Crowded, filthy conditions and a near total lack of bathing made room for body lice, which would defecate on a person's skin, which would enter through cuts/wounds, causing high fever, delirium, and gangrenous sores. There was a serious outbreak of the disease in the year Shakespeare died.

Malaria, caused by the marshy conditions made its victims suffer from fever, unbearable chills, vomiting, enlarged liver, low blood pressure, seizures, and comas.

Log Lines

Should have:
(1) an imperfect but passionate and active PROTAGONIST.
The verb will depict (2) the BATTLE. 
And the direct object will describe (3) an insurmountable ANTAGONIST who tries to stop the protagonist from reaching 
(4) a physical GOAL on account of 
(5) the STAKES, if the goal is not reached.



Edward Scissorhands 
A suburban mother brings home a freaky young man who has scissors instead of hands.

In The Loop
Political satire about a British member of parliament who backs military action and becomes popular in Washington.

Bend It Like Beckham
A young woman pursues her passion for football against the wishes of her traditional Sikh parents.#

Meet Dave
Sci-fi comedy with Eddie Murphy as both a man-sized humanoid spaceship and the diminuitive captain of the same vessel. He and his tiny crew are oon a mission to drain Earth's oceans.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lucy, Edmund and their obnoxious young cousin Eustace are transported back to Narnia where they embark on a scary, perilous journey to save the land.

Failure to Launch
Matthew McConaughey stars as a 35 year old professional layabout happy to stay at home... until his mother hires Sarah Jessica Parker to lure him away

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Western drama with John Wayne as a US Cavalry officer on his last duty before retiring, escorting two women civilians to a stagecoach. The second in John Ford's cavalry trilogy.