Shakespeare illustration by Emma Carlisle I’d love to have a print of this.
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Lady Macbeth
In my mind Lady Macbeth looks like Maleficient from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. I can’t stop thinking about this. “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse That [...]
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Across the Hair
The other night I finally got round watching Hair (Milos Forman, 1979). A musical about a young boy from Oklahoma who goes to NYC in order to join the Army and go to Vietman and befriends some hippies who, of course, widen his mind. Within less than 10 minutes of watching the film I started [...]
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>Conversations with my mum
> Me: I just finished reading Henry V.Mum: Oh, really? Who wrote that? (sounding very interested)Me: Shakespeare.Mum: Oh, ok. (embarrassing silence) So, what are you going to read next?Me: The Tempest.Mum: That’s by Joyce, yeah?
