Yesterday I was hubristic enough to think I was up to eating Real Food, and this act ushered in the return of the Random Stomach Thing that's been bothering me all week. I find it profoundly unfair that I've spent most of my spring break feeling like condensed ick. It also means that I have done very little on the Woodstock paper other than to ( Read more... )

macmauve, you may rest easy now ( Read more... )

ritaxis linked to omniglot.com just now -- it's a fabulous site -- and consequently I've just spent far too much time attempting the Welsh tonguetwisters they have there, since I have to speak a bit of Welsh in 1H4. What have I gotten myself into? The double L will be the death of me ( Read more... )

Happy Twelfth Night, all! :D ( Read more... )

From Cary's History of Edward II -- Dr. V read this bit for us in class today, and I find it hugely fascinating. On the murder of the King:

The historians of these times differ both in the time, place, and manner of his death; yet all agree that he was foully and inhumanely murdered, yet so, that there was no visible or apparent sign which way ' ( Read more... )

Okay, as promised (since I know you're all just salivating over the prospect ;) ), a few thoughts on the CDs -- Richard II/Edward II and Twelfth Night. These are mostly just impressions and offhand comments, as I'm not in a "reviewing" mindset, but that's all one. ;) Also, I tend to focus more on the acting bits because that's what I'm good at ( Read more... )

(Haven't done one of these in a while, have I ( Read more... )

I was twiddling around the Internet again (actually, this was to find out what search terms one would need to use to find my LJ on google if one was looking for reactions to the Globe tour) and came across this link -- it's a review of the Globe Twelfth Night by David Nicol, who'd seen it in its original production last February ( Read more... )

Here's the rest of my trip report. This one gets even longer, so I'm cutting it...

( Chapter the Third: In which our Heroine imparts unto the Reader her Impressions of the Performance (or, the Good Stuff) )

Okay, so here's the monster post I've undoubtedly been promising for ages at this point -- my fabulous Shakespeare's Globe adventure (such as it is ;) ). It's rather a long entry, so I've broken it up into LJ cuts, and further am making in two posts. I don't get to the actual reviewing until the second part; this is just a lot of silly miscellanea ( Read more... )