In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.

- Twelfth Night

Aah, Shakespeare.

Love him.

What can one say to do justice to him, that doesn't sound sycophantic?


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Watched the film of the David Tennant version of Hamlet this evening with maaseru and Pim.

What a show. Keep in mind that I adore Shakespeare with a passionate passion, and Hamlet is my favourite of his plays. I've seen a lot of Hamlets, from the embarrassingly terrible to the brilliant.


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Seems there's a new Ottawa Shakespeare Company, no apparent relation to the one Stewart Bain once set up, that did such a terrific Macbeth. I still have the T-shirt.

A new Shakespeare company, and they're doing one of my two faves, Hamlet. Woo-hoo! They said the video here was "in the style" of the show, and having seen it, I wonder what that ( Read more... )

From fannish5: Aug 29, 2008 - Name 5 characters you think are often misunderstood by fans.

1. Torchwood - Captain Jack Harkness. As with all the Torchwood characters, fan characterization puts him all over the map - which is, of course, fair enough, but I have a very strong notion of what his character is and I find the variances jarring, especially when ( Read more... )