Middleton!

[poliphilo]

Thomas Middleton is the man!

I just added him to my list of interests and thought, as a wheeze, I'd go visit the rest of you who list him.

And guess what? You're all of you brilliant!

So, if I've just friended you out of nowhere, blame Tom.

P.S. Hengist, King of Kent features political cynicism to die for, some very off-colour sex, a lot of murder, some ripe low comedy (and puritan-baiting) and winds up with the anti-heroine getting burned to death on stage. I'd love to see it acted.

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[tispity.livejournal.com]

Hi! Just added you back *waves*

And Hengist? Yeah that would fantastic to see on stage! I've just recently seen the RSCs Women Beware Women and if they can stage the deaths at the end of that I'm sure the burning to death thing would be a piece of cake! :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

I've been wondering how they did it. My guess is that they had strips of red cloth tied to a frame at the side of the stage with some sort of wind machine behind it.

[liseuse.livejournal.com]

Ah! The unexpected presence of a new person is explained.

He is indeed the man. Although we shall see how I feel about this next year when I've written a dissertation on him. I may be less enthused.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wrote a dissertation about Sheridan le Fanu.

I don't think I've read a word of his since.

[hardrada.livejournal.com]

By an extraordinary coincidence, I've just come back from a weekend in Florence, inspired by the story of the Medici, and I've come back with another obsession: Caravaggio. Also on your list of interests.

Great minds clearly think alike. If "great" is the right word!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a long time since I was last in Florence. Twenty five years, maybe.

You saw the exhibition of late Caravaggios in London last year? Wonderful- and deeply moving.

I'll accept "great". It would be churlish to do otherwise.