Living in the Shakespearean future
Mar. 5th, 2010 10:11 pmI now have the complete works of Shakespeare on my Palm, in one 3.2Mb Mobi file from Project Gutenberg. I had to go through and bookmark the titles of the individual plays myself, but that was probably still easier than downloading one play at a time.
What brought this on was seeing a community-theater type production of Richard II last night. I think I read the play once, long ago, but it wasn't one I'd studied in school or ever seen acted before. My experience with live theater is somewhat limited, so my impressions of the production don't count for much, but here they are.
( Impressions. )
Incidentally, I learned something on Wikipedia today that I didn't know before, and which I'm surprised had escaped my notice for so long (if true; I'll have to check an actual book when I get home); the King Henry who had Thomas a Becket killed wasn't any of the numbered Henrys, but a Henry who co-ruled as "junior king" with his father, Henry II, but pre-deceased him.
What brought this on was seeing a community-theater type production of Richard II last night. I think I read the play once, long ago, but it wasn't one I'd studied in school or ever seen acted before. My experience with live theater is somewhat limited, so my impressions of the production don't count for much, but here they are.
( Impressions. )
Incidentally, I learned something on Wikipedia today that I didn't know before, and which I'm surprised had escaped my notice for so long (if true; I'll have to check an actual book when I get home); the King Henry who had Thomas a Becket killed wasn't any of the numbered Henrys, but a Henry who co-ruled as "junior king" with his father, Henry II, but pre-deceased him.
