REturn To Sender

Monday, 4 November 2019, 13:15.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Well. You can tell it Mercury REtrograde. Everything is a RE – RE: My EngLit Exam…a REally long time ago. This was one of the books we REad and got examined on. I REfuse to say anything about the REmarkable Actor heRE.

All Roads Led To…

Monday, 21 October 2019, 4:39.Reading time 1 minute.

…Shakespeare. Well, in my world anyway. The following was written by a British Admiral/Pasha serving in the Turkish Navy. “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to […]

Beatrice’s Spell

Friday, 11 October 2019, 11:43.Reading time 1 minute.

I love this book. It’s about Beatrice Cenci. Which is pronounced Bee-a-treech-ee Chen-chi in Italian. With the right and proper hand movements :o) Which brings me (as ever) back to the Bard. Much Ado About Nothing. Mixed Vibes today (?!) “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in […]

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair

Saturday, 5 October 2019, 16:05.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Moving on from the Prince of Elsinore or maybe Australia… Shrug! Ken Bran also did The Scottish Play Feeling a teeny bit dizzy maintenant mes braves. (?) Wrong country. My bad

SCHWOON!

Thursday, 3 October 2019, 11:59.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Inspired by a reference to Walking Statues

Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 14:33.Reading time 3 minutes.

How Does Birnham Wood Come to Dunsinane in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? Credit: Print Collector/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images In William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth,” Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane in the form of Malcolm’s army camouflaged with boughs from the trees of the forest. The military action is first suggested by Duncan in Act V, Scene 4, Lines 6-9.When […]

The Weird Sisters

Wednesday, 4 September 2019, 14:58.Reading time 3 minutes.

How to MANIPULATE in one easy lesson… Read Macbeth. Here Endeth the Lesson. Bloody Women! And – puhlease – don’t get me started on Succubus. Plain Sight? First Witch When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. Third […]

The Merchant of Venice

Friday, 30 August 2019, 15:18.Reading time 1 minute.

SHYLOCK: The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is deerely bought, ’tis mine, and I will haue it. For me… The very saddest thing in the world is being Forced to watch lovers/family/friends continually and publicly and viciously tear off their pound of flesh. We have all been here. When “partners” continue […]

The Lesson Always Repeated but Never Learned!

Monday, 26 August 2019, 17:41.Reading time 2 minutes.

Originally posted in June this year. Anything and everything Just to Shut Her Up. The NEVER ENDING STORY. SparkNotes Character Analysis of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus: Lavinia – The only daughter of Titus Andronicus, she spurns Saturninus’s offer to make her his empress because she is in love with Bassianus. She is brutally raped […]

“Let molten coin be thy damnation, / Thou disease of a friend and not himself!”

Friday, 12 July 2019, 12:47.Reading time 1 minute.

Oh. It would seem that I’m back with Shakespeare. Timon of Athens this time. He was not a very nice person. Overfond of money and attention. Let’s see where this takes us. “What a god’s gold / That he is worshiped in a baser temple / Than where swine feed!” “Would thou wert […]

The King Lear We Know Today…

Saturday, 22 June 2019, 9:32.Reading time 18 minutes.

Nice Article. Character analysis: The villains in King Lear – Edmund, Goneril and Regan Article written by:Carol Atherton Theme:Tragedies Published:6 Jun 2017 Using a close analysis of the characters’ traits, actions and language, Carol Atherton considers how Shakespeare presents Goneril, Regan and Edmund as the villains of King Lear. King Lear is, at its heart, a play about the […]

Branwen ferch Llŷr

Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 4:28.Reading time 72 minutes.

Here is Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation of Branwyn. It’s pretty long and not for those with no interest in myth and legend. But it forms a major incident in the Welsh Mabinogi. For me there are many similarities between Branwyn and Cordelia, the daughter of King Lear. She, too, is given away in marriage to […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.