All the world's a stage: London IV

[selenak]

Overheard, just the other day, near Marble Arch while having lunch, the following conversation

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[kathyh]

Whew! I'm exhausted just reading about all your activities.

It's amazing how relaxing the National Gallery can be, even when full of people. I went popped in there in December full of pre-Christmas stress and came out feeling much calmer.

I thought you would enjoy The Invisible Woman. I thought it was very well done though I would have liked to have seen a bit more of how Nelly reinvented herself after Dickens's death. I can see that the bad effect of her secrecy about her past on her son would have been impossible to fit in, but it did mean that some of the darker results of her choices weren't apparent. It's a fascinating and complex story.

The Knight of the Burning Pestle sounds a hoot.

They are basically Jacobean fandom living the fans-know-everything-better-anyway dream (which tells me Francis Beaumont must have been lectured by fanboys and fangirls a lot), and presented with great affection.I've often wondered if Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist had to deal with that. In a London that was so much smaller it must have been

[selenak]

I think you could have done Nelly reinventing herself etc. in a miniseries - for which there would have been ample material - but not in a movie.

Well, what is Shakespeare resurrecting Falstaff for The Merry Wives if not him giving in to fan pressure? :)

[diotimah]

Sounds like you had a *great* time, theatre-wise, but also in general. Thanks for the lovely postcard.:)