I ran into a friend just now; we're in the same cohort, we've been in the same classes, so he knows something about my tendency to - shall we say? - cling limpet-like to certain texts. He wanted to know what my tutorial was on, since I said I was trying to finish prepping for it. I just laughed; I couldn't help it.

"Shakespeare," he guessed. " ( Read more... )

I took a bit of time out of my punishing schedule of Doctor Who obsession (though hey, I can still use the icon) and graduate school angst to read David Crystal's Pronouncing Shakespeare, a short book about his hand in putting together the original pronunciation performances of Romeo and Juliet at the Globe in 2004. I learned several things about ( Read more... )