"We didn't burn him!"
Hurray for Restoration work! Right now in Englidh literature we are studying the period of the restoration and it's subsequant literature. Basically, after the return of the monarchy, Charles II used the theatre as a sort of propaganda to show how he was much better than Cromwell and he let women on stage for the first time so things inevitably got bawdier and funnier. There was apparently an incident where a fop was heckling this actress and the playwright, who was in love with her, jumped off stage from backstage and stabbed the heckler! And got away with it! (Well the king was shagging the actress at the time so he forgave the playwright. The king liked his actresses.) The lecturer teaching us this all is the best lecturer ever. He's funny, interesting and knows how to engage with us bored students. I'm now really interested in this period which is handy because I'm doing my tutorial presentation on The Rover by Aphra Behn. Sadly The Rover lecture is the day after my presentation so I can't get a few extra notes for it. Yesterday's lecture was hilarious because we were looking at John Wilmot's work! He used the c word about 7 times in one poem! And we got to look at a big Johnny Depp picture because he played him in The Libertine. Good times. Hurray for bawdy poetry!
Tonight's Comic Relief so I'm going to sit and watch as much of it as possible. David Tennant is hosting it and is looking rather dashing. I'm going to end up getting very emotional with all those clips from Africa. It doesn't help that they keeping playing Hoppipolla, the only song that makes me sob like a little baby! I was watching a show on the raunchy bits of Comic Relief last night on iPlayer and they showed Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith snogging quite a lot. Strangely hypnotic sight.
I've booked my ticket for going home at the end of the month, the day after the Two Lovers/The Damned United double bill I've got planned. Still hot and non crazy Phoenix and smoking hot Sheen! Sadly I also got my exam dates. One's on a Saturday! At 9;30am! I don't even know what that time in the morning looks like! Wish me luck because it's going to take a miracle!
Tonight's Comic Relief so I'm going to sit and watch as much of it as possible. David Tennant is hosting it and is looking rather dashing. I'm going to end up getting very emotional with all those clips from Africa. It doesn't help that they keeping playing Hoppipolla, the only song that makes me sob like a little baby! I was watching a show on the raunchy bits of Comic Relief last night on iPlayer and they showed Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith snogging quite a lot. Strangely hypnotic sight.
I've booked my ticket for going home at the end of the month, the day after the Two Lovers/The Damned United double bill I've got planned. Still hot and non crazy Phoenix and smoking hot Sheen! Sadly I also got my exam dates. One's on a Saturday! At 9;30am! I don't even know what that time in the morning looks like! Wish me luck because it's going to take a miracle!