Feedback already!

[gillo]

ETA: I can at least embed the YouTube video I talked about in the essay.

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I submitted two essays at the end of April; we are told to expect a three-week wait for the results in the case of shorter essays, four for the 'full-length', 4,000-word pieces.

I was a little surprised, therefore, to get the results for my shorter piece yesterday.

Comments

[feliciacraft]

Ah, the Scottish Play, the cursed play. I'm not familiar with this particular production, but I remember reading somewhere that Shakespeare's original production was so violent and gory (with real blood from a butcher) that King James (who came to the opening performance) forbade its performance for many years henceforth.

I enjoyed reading your essay. If only recordings existed of the production so that we could find out for ourselves how bad it was!

Personally, I consider an accusation of "high journalism" a compliment! :)

[gillo]

The production was notorious, as possibly the worst Shakespearean production in the history of the Old Vic. O'Toole never performed Shakespeare on stage again, though he won awards in other live theatre.

It's worth searching for it on YouTube if you're interested - the clips do suggest sub-amateur standard.

Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed reading it!

[lokifan]

Interesting!

[gillo]

Thank you.

[geekslave]

Really nice comment! Awesome to get that kind of feedback.

Stacey

[gillo]

Thank you.

[kathyh]

Fascinating essay. Interesting how difficult it is to reconstruct where the faults actually lay due to the potential bias of the sources.

The stilted speech is interesting. The stylistic changes in broadcasting over the last 35 years have been huge so interviews from 1980 might easily sound more stilted to us now than they would have done then.

Congrats on such a good mark and such an interesting essay.

[gillo]

Thank you. I've now embedded the YouTube clip, so you can see what I mean. The speakers seem to be from a different era than the one I remember!

The sources are all incredibly biased - and virtually all, even the most academic, are trying to get a laugh as much as anything else.

[cmcmck]

I love accusations like that!

I got accused of 'intellectualism' for the quote in Anglo Saxon in the poem I posted yesterday.

Yup! That was the whole point, you see! :o)

[gillo]

Nothing intellectual about Anglo-Saxon language! Except possibly the Dream of the Rood.

What is wrong with either 'high journalism' or 'intellectualism' anyway? We're geeks and proud of it.

[cmcmck]

It was the Dream of the Rood I was quoting from! :o)

[gillo]

There you go then. Dead posh, you.

It's my favourite A/S poem, I must say. Yes, I did recognise the reference, come to think of it.