for Mikaela, the Great

Mikaela, thank you so much for the work you did in researching my thesis!  I really appreciate it.  I love that you are using music as part of the nature of time; it's a really cool spin on the idea of time and totally relevant to your thesis.

Random Ideas and Implications of your thesis:

• In some of Shakespeare's plays, the lower-class speak in prose while the upper-class speak in verse. How could that idea of speaking in verse be constraining or liberating when you think about a famous speech of Hamlet's that is delivered in prose instead of the usual verse?
• Liz made an awesome comment on one of my blog posts about Hermione's sixteen year disappearance in The Winter's Tale: "One of the things I remember discussing when we read this play in class was that Hermione needed the 16 years to forgive Leontes. . . .[Paulina] also knew that Leontes still loved Hermione, that Hermione still felt the same about him, and she knew they would be much better off if given time to forgive and forget.  I think the real miracle of the story is that they are able to come back together in love, as a family." In this case, time is totally a liberating thing.

Potential Literary Criticism Sources:

There is this book called "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," by Mikhail Bakhtin, which was mentioned in an article on e-book called "Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster, by Russell West.  I didn't see much in the e-book on time, but the first book sounds promising.  Unfortunately, it looks like to get it you'll need to request it through interlibrary loan (5-7 business days) but it might be worth it to strengthen the literary criticism research in your essay. 

Thoughts on your thesis:

I like the idea that time can be liberating, as I think time is often portrayed, especially as you mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets as the enemy, allowing old age and death.  You might have to get a little more specific within your thesis, but I think that'll happen easily as we find more literary criticism for your topic.  

What do you think the "so what?" of your thesis is?  What are the implications that time has this dual nature? I think that will add another important element to your thesis.