Dry Going paleface -- August 08, 2004 at 00:32:46

Well, I finally got back to Hamlet. Several times, in fact--that thing just keeps giving... and when is Branagh's four-hour full text production going to come out on DVD, anyway? Shoot. I think I'd get a lot more out of it now than I did when I saw it in a tiny theater with two fidgety friends in '96. I'm currently going through a lot of old British stuff--and by old I mean pre to early Medieval. Sort of hit and miss but I have a feeling it will warm up a bit as I get into later made-up stuff about Arthur and Co. In fact you can blame this current trend in my reading on Eugène Vinaver's "Malory: Complete Works," which preserves the original Middle English (or whatever it was) in all it's Elmer-Fuddish glory ("Lord God, I thanke The, for I am helyd of thys syknes!")--and which I still have to write something about, come to think of it. Well, you go read it for yourself in the meantime.

 

Here We Go paleface -- March 24, 2004 at 04:16:41

I should have started this sooner I suppose, now I'll have to go and re-read all the stuff I've read over the past few years to get fresh impressions. Except that I'm not, of course, going to do that. Except maybe for Hamlet, Hamlet is the stuff.