tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29947286037479767322011-04-21T12:06:02.197-07:00...some will say, Criticks are a kind of Tinkers; that make more faults, than they mend ordinarily...Crispinellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10012967336063409253noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2994728603747976732.post-63838248410695875952007-09-22T10:28:00.000-07:002007-09-22T10:37:09.609-07:00

BBC Radio Three are broadcasting Doctor Faustus, starring the very lovely Paterson Joseph as Faustus and Ray Fearon (who was a hugely impressive Othello at the RSC a few years back) as Mephistopheles. It'll be broadcast on Sunday 23 September 2007, 20:00-21:40, and will apparently be available to listen again online until 30 September.Details and extra things here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/

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The ChangelingThomas Middleton and William RowleyOn tour: 28 September - 1 December 2007Beatrice-Joanna wants to marry Alsemero but her father has other plans. Meanwhile, her servant - the hideous Deflores - would do anything to win her. In return for killing the man her father has chosen as her husband, Deflores names his price - Beatrice-Joanna herself. At first repulsed, her desire is

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I have a slight fear of memes - all a bit intimate for this antisocial soul - but I like this Library Meme (as seen on The Little Professor).Here’s my current hoard:• Helen Cooper, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (OUP, 2004)• Philip Schwyzer, Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature (OUP, 2007)• Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac

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Watched the first two episodes of Heroes on BBC2 on Wednesday. Was obscurely pleased to see that one of the actors is called Thomas Dekker. (Incidentally, the [not wholly accurate] Wikipedia article on the real TD includes this fabulous non-sequitur: 'When Dekker began writing plays, Thomas Nashe and Thomas Lodge were still alive; when he died, John Dryden had already been born.' Well, um, yes

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Obviously the devastation caused by heavy rainfall and inadequate water-prevention policies is not a subject for cheap humour. But wouldn't it be so much better if floods in general were reported as they were 400 years ago? Instead of 'Sodden Oxfordshire is Braced for Worse to Come' (The Guardian), 'Flood Peril of 3m Homes' (Daily Mail) or even 'Flood Damage Shocks Queen' (The Sun), we could

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Young Actors Company presentsTis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford Wednesday 18th - Saturday 21st JulyWed & Thu £8/£6, Fri & Sat £9/£7 Free online booking (http://www.adctheatre.com/) or ring 01223 300085‘With admiration I beheld this WhoreAdorned with beauty such as might restore’ The Young Actors Company (formerly Whizz Kids) return to the ADC with 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, a tragedy of religious

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Here's a thing. I've been looking at a few dissertation samples on Proquest, and it's struck me that almost everyone else in the world is better at writing acknowledgements than I am. It's not that I deliberately write dry, dutiful and oddly ungrateful-sounding acknowledgements, I just get overcome by embarassment whenever I start typing. When one's brain seems to be squirming in one's head

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I've always been intrigued by out of date topical references. Like the final chorus of the Suede song Animal Nitrate, in which Brett Anderson (or Bert, as the NME rather gloriously used to call him) sings 'now you're over twenty-one' in the place of 'oh it turns you on'. Listening to that song at the age of twenty, it seemed incredibly potent – the age of consent for heterosexual sex may have

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Dr Faustus By Christopher Marlowe Directed by Giles Foreman Presented by The Caravanserai Bridewell Theatre http://www.stbridefoundation.org/bridewelltheatre/index.html Tuesday - Saturday, 29 May - 2 Jun 2007Performances at 7.30pm Saturday 2 Jun 2007 Matinée 14.30 The Caravanserai takes on Marlowe’s classic tale. Dr Faustus wishes to ‘practice more than heavenly power permits’, to transcend the

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Read Not DeadShakespeare's Globe Education Centre Theatre, June-Julyhttp://www.shakespeares-globe.org/globeeducation/publicevents/stagedreadings/In 1995 Globe Education began to explore the plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries in a series of staged readings called Read Not Dead. Since then audiences have enjoyed over 130 plays that had been gathering dust on library shelves. Leading actors and

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FEATS 2007 - The International Theatre Festival25-28 MayRoyal Theatre (Koninklijke Schouwburg), The Haguehttp://www.feats.eu/Theatre Groups from Amsterdam, Basel, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Lausanne, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Stuttgart and Stockholm will come to The Hague for this International Theatre Festival to perform works in English from, among others, Shaw, Pinter, Marlowe and Tennessee

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... last night I heard possibly the least glamorous thing ever said onstage by a guitarist to his glamorous lead singer - "you're like a skinny lizard..."

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Women Beware Women by Thomas MiddletonRoyal Welsh College of Music and DramaFriday, May 25, 2007 to Saturday, June 02, 2007Directed by Martin HoughtonThomas Middleton's Women Beware Women is Romeo and Juilet for grown-ups. It begins pretty much where Shakespeare's vision of breathless adolescent romance ends: with a newly married couple, eloped from Venice, arriving in Florence. The husband's

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The Duchess of MalfiBromley Little Theatre Directed by Pauline Armour Friday, 18th - Saturday, 26th May 2007 http://www.bromleylittletheatre.co.uk/ A beautiful young widow, her two villainous brothers, a mystery lover, a treacherous spy, a wanton seductress - intrigue, lust, horror, madness and murder...

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The Custom of the CountryBy John Fletcher and Philip MassingerA moved playreadingDirected by Alexander KirkOriginal music by Alexander MitchellUniversity of Adelaide Theatre GuildA rare theatrical treat!June 7 & 8This production of The Custom of the Country continues our exploration of the byways of 17th and early 18th century theatre, which began in 2005 with Susanna Centlivre's The Wonder and

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From John Lyly's The Woman in the Moon, probably written for a children's company c. 1590 and published 1597: ‘She playes the vixen with euery thing about her’. Sadly, it doesn't mean that the newly-created Pandora has turned into a fox, though stranger things happen in Lyly's plays. Instead, she apparently takes out her anger -- induced, wouldn't you know, by the malign influence of Saturn --

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The Washington Shakespeare Company Reading Series Building on the success of the Bard-37: Canon Cabaret and Greek Alpha - Omega readings series, WSC plans three unique reading series to continue this exciting tradition. ... Starting January 8, 2007, we offer another Shakespeare option in Washington with our Sort of Shakespeare Reading Series, including Shakespeare apocrypha, his

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Like most people, it seems, I liked SAA this year, especially after the relative misery of RSA. I liked the hummingbirds, I liked the food, I liked the people I hung out with, and I managed to avoid the very few people I didn’t want to see. For a variety of reasons I went to lots of seminars but not very many paper sessions –- though the pedagogy one was a lot of fun. However, I made an effort to

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Primavera presents: Forgotten ClassicsKing's Head, Islington, LondonFeaturing six outstanding plays rarely - if ever - seen in Britain before, the Primavera Forgotten Classics series at the King’s Head is a unique chance to see the work of some of the world’s finest playwrights. Tom Littler directs full-scale casts of West End actors in rehearsed readings ranging from Elizabethan comedy to

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