Downloadable BBC Shakespeares! I already own the whole set, but some of may wish to know about this.

Or, you know, you can just watch the sample clip they have up with a very young Alan Rickman in a truly hilarious costume.

In other news, it is too fucking cold. It's eight degrees out, and my living room is practically impossible to heat.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I HAVE WANTED TO SEE THIS FOR YEARS.

(maybe in March I'll even be able to afford the damn thing...)

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So I just finished watching the Beeb's Henry VIII, which means that I have seen all of Shakespeare's plays (plus one of Shakespeare/Fletcher's) in performance at least once. Henry VIII, btw, was quite excellent, which was a pleasant surprise; I had heard good things, and it has an excellent cast, but I remembered the play as being, with the ( Read more... )

except I wasn't paying much attention because I was also grading papers, so there was no livetweeting this time out. But! I did notice in the credits that I've met one of the cast members -- well, actually, one of the musicians (they had a lot of them and they played a lot of authentic Elizabethan music, meaning I spent the whole production playing ( Read more... )

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