My entry for monthlydiaryday.

[gillo]

Late again, as the week ran away with me.

Comments

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Knight of the Burning Pestle is astonishingly meta - first thing I saw at the Sam Wanamaker, and utterly memorable. Hope it's as funny on the page.

(I have fallen down a bunnyhole of wondering whether Falstaff at the end of the Henry IV pt2 would still feel as tragic if he hadn't been written out for Henry V - how Will Kemp's career choices affect our reading of the plays. Luckily, no one will make me write an essay on it, even to a long deadline though having mentioned it to the boyf I suspect I will get grilled when I see him next.)

[gillo]

We read it in our play-reading group last term, and I read it years ago too. I'd love to see it one day - it is, as you say, astonishingly meta. And hilarious.

The switch from Kempe to Armin clearly had a very big impact on other plays, so it's very likely it did in Henry V. Without Armin we would never have had Touchstone or Feste, for example. Kempe thought he did well for himself, jigging off to Norwich, but I suspect Hamlet's views on clowns express those of his authors to players who thought they were bigger than their roles.

[executrix]

I seem to recall that a production of Knight of the Burning Pestle (possibly Globe Theatre?) is available online, maybe YouTube?

[gillo]

Ooh, I shall search for that in the morning! Thanks.

[velvetwhip]

Have I told you how much I appreciate the hard work you do on the Herald? Because I truly do. You've helped me find so many things I would otherwise have missed, so thank you!

Gabrielle

[gillo]

Thank you for saying so, though of course I'm only a small part of an awesome team.

[geekslave]

Congrats on getting the essay done in time and getting a good response to your fic.

Stacey

[gillo]

Thanks. I was really surprised by the speed at which hits mounted up.

[gillo]

Thanks, Maia. Studying is so much fun, isn't it?

[bluegerl]

Thank you Gillo, for a lovely adult day.(which sounds patronising, sorry! but isn't meant to be) but travelling with you to your 'work' and with your thoughts about what and where, and that small fic you did on Bowie... yes. yes. ... yes. Bloody awful that is/was/shall be.

So SO interesting to read your discussions on Shakespeare, his characters and their 'designs' and appearances. NOW I shall have to get me huge tome out and read Henner 4 again and on into 5! So super to be 'pushed' so pleasantly and gently to satisfy my curiosity!

You DO stir up my creaking old brain. THANKS so much!

[gillo]

Not patronising at all, though I don't often do adulting very well. I'm glad you vicariously enjoyed my day.

I am so very much enjoying this MA. I shall post the essays here in due course, but I'm a little too superstitious to post them before I get the marks.