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The Issues Are A Parent     
or   Psycho Analysis  

Oopsily-daisily,
Oedipus Tyrannus
married the woman by
whom he’d been had.

“Wow,” said the founder of                  
psychoanalysis,
“Serious issues with                
Mother and Dad.”

                                                        
A Stearn Critique

In 1927, T.S. Eliot famously argued that Shakespeare’s tragedy Titus Andronicus was “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written…”


Merrily, merrily,
Titus Andronicus
isn’t a tragedy
most of us read.

Thomas Stearns Eliot
claimed it was thoroughly
uninspirational.
Tragic indeed.


Vengefulvia       
                              
 
“Fulvia was married to Antony when [he] embarked upon his affair with Cleopatra... As news of [the relationship] spread to Rome... Fulvia would do anything in her power to bring him home. So it was that [she] stirred up a war in Italy... [The historian Appian cast her as a] ‘public affairs-obsessed woman who fanned the flames of war out of jealousy for Cleopatra.’”
— Smithsonian Magazine

                      
Jealously, zealously,     
warmonger Fulvia
clearly, as Appian
aptly declares,

had a compulsion to
monomaniacally                                                                                                       
dwell on particular
public affairs.                                        

Alex Steelsmith


If you have any thoughts about these double dactyls,  Alex Steelsmith  would be pleased to hear them

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