The Winter's Tale
May. 7th, 2021 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe Winter's Tale is my favourite Shakespeare play.
I don't mean that it's his best, just that I love it the best.
And the reason I love it the best is because its the only art work I know- in any medium- that can be relied on to make me cry.
I've been watching the RSC production that's currently available on the BBC i-player. It isn't a particularly good production- but that's by the by. I'd prefer it if Autolycus and the clown made me laugh but if they don't I know Perdita and Florizel will be up next and they'll make me weep happy tears because their lines are so beautiful- and then- after a bit more buggering about- we'll come to the statue scene which'll have me sobbing out loud.
I don't mean that it's his best, just that I love it the best.
And the reason I love it the best is because its the only art work I know- in any medium- that can be relied on to make me cry.
I've been watching the RSC production that's currently available on the BBC i-player. It isn't a particularly good production- but that's by the by. I'd prefer it if Autolycus and the clown made me laugh but if they don't I know Perdita and Florizel will be up next and they'll make me weep happy tears because their lines are so beautiful- and then- after a bit more buggering about- we'll come to the statue scene which'll have me sobbing out loud.
