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poliphiloWe've been converting the back bedroom into a study for Ailz. She's got a TV in there so she can watch the Shakespeare plays she's studying. And yesterday we went to IKEA and bought her a flat-pack bookcase. I'm good with flat-packs. This one has its shelves supported on metal pegs. I opened the packet and one of the pegs leapt out, bounced joyously and went down a gap in the floorbooards. Never mind. Ailz produced a magnet on an extending thing like a radio aerial and we had the little bugger out again in no time.
This is going to be our year of Shakespeare. Already we go to bed and lie there talking about the Sonnets and how Shakey reportedly drank himself to death in the company of Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton and what silly wankers the Oxfordians are and other significant matters arising.
I'm reading the Lodger. It's about a law case Shakey got involved in while lodging with a Hugenot family in Cripplegate. It's like you're circumambulating him. There he is, sitting in his study bedroom with the MS of All's Well That Ends Well spread out on the table, and you can almost reach him but not quite. It's frustrating how much we know about his world- like who his neighbours were and what they did for a living- and how little about the man himself.
This is going to be our year of Shakespeare. Already we go to bed and lie there talking about the Sonnets and how Shakey reportedly drank himself to death in the company of Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton and what silly wankers the Oxfordians are and other significant matters arising.
I'm reading the Lodger. It's about a law case Shakey got involved in while lodging with a Hugenot family in Cripplegate. It's like you're circumambulating him. There he is, sitting in his study bedroom with the MS of All's Well That Ends Well spread out on the table, and you can almost reach him but not quite. It's frustrating how much we know about his world- like who his neighbours were and what they did for a living- and how little about the man himself.
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Date: 2008-01-18 10:57 pm (UTC)The best thing ever said about Shakespeare was Robert Benchely's grouse that "Shakespeare (or the Immortal Bard, as his wife used to call him) isn't that great. I give 400 more years." And yes, the Oxonians are wankers. I had one as a high school teacher. I scored revenge on her when she said the Globe burnt down during a performance of Hamlet. I raised my hand and said it had actually burnt down during a performance of Henry VIII.
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Date: 2008-01-19 03:02 pm (UTC)I like some of those other guys, but I'm not sure I'd want to spend a whole year in their company.