As I sorta accidentally volunteered to help the mods, I thought I'd better try to do the challenge this year, perhaps get a little further on than before.
Your Shakespeare studies sound so interesting. Are you tempted to write anything with a Shakespearean setting or does learning the facts stop any wish to fictionalise?
P.S. I passed on your good wishes to Sophie and she thanks you very much. She’s hoping she’s over the worst of it now.
The Shakespeare thing is tricky. I couldn't write 'cod' Shakespeare, and I know his work too well if anything. I'm learning a great deal about his friends and colleagues, and that might tempt me at some point; some of the group will be writing actual theses and academic papers/books on them, however, which is a trifle daunting. I do have a teenage time-travel story on the stocks, though, and I may well go back and revise a lot of that at some point.
The reading group is so absorbing, yet we also have a nice line in banter and frivolity, with a whole slew of in-jokes about actors who died four centuries ago, but feel very real to us. Hemminges and Condell, for example, who collated and published the First Folio in 1623, have so much more about them than their editing achievements.
Nice icon. I saw that production of Love's Labours Lost at the RSC.
Thanks. Unfortunately I didn't see that production but we did see the next Love's Labour's Lost they did set before World War I with Much Ado About Nothing set in the aftermath, which I thought worked wonderfully.
I know his work too well if anything.
I wondered if that would be a problem. One of my lecturers at university was an expert on Richard II (the real one not the Shakespearean one) and she said she couldn't write a historical novel based on him as she would be so obsessed with getting every detail correct. A teenage time-travel story sounds great fun.
Oh I really hope she is over it.
So do I! She said her sense of smell went and then came back again so hopefully that's a good sign.
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P.S. I passed on your good wishes to Sophie and she thanks you very much. She’s hoping she’s over the worst of it now.
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The Shakespeare thing is tricky. I couldn't write 'cod' Shakespeare, and I know his work too well if anything. I'm learning a great deal about his friends and colleagues, and that might tempt me at some point; some of the group will be writing actual theses and academic papers/books on them, however, which is a trifle daunting. I do have a teenage time-travel story on the stocks, though, and I may well go back and revise a lot of that at some point.
The reading group is so absorbing, yet we also have a nice line in banter and frivolity, with a whole slew of in-jokes about actors who died four centuries ago, but feel very real to us. Hemminges and Condell, for example, who collated and published the First Folio in 1623, have so much more about them than their editing achievements.
Nice icon. I saw that production of Love's Labours Lost at the RSC.
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I know his work too well if anything.
I wondered if that would be a problem. One of my lecturers at university was an expert on Richard II (the real one not the Shakespearean one) and she said she couldn't write a historical novel based on him as she would be so obsessed with getting every detail correct. A teenage time-travel story sounds great fun.
Oh I really hope she is over it.
So do I! She said her sense of smell went and then came back again so hopefully that's a good sign.
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