Shakespeare
~ Cropped stamp featuring a portrait of William Shakespeare. (National Postal Museum)
Wil (my DH, not the Bard) and I are off to a Shakespeare production this evening!
It was a year ago today that our sister in law, Elizabeth, died.
We are doing as she would have us do: enjoy life. She was our age.
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ReplyDeleteRe Shakespeare, I still have my old College Outline Series "Outlines of Shakespeare's Plays" by Homer Watt et al. A great quick read before attending a performance, to enhance one's understanding and enjoyment. I have a complete set of the plays, but the Outline remains valuable. Good used ones available at alibris.com for 99 cents plus shipping.
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Shakespeare’s plays possibly inspired by London neighbours [Click]
Timing of May’s ‘festival of Britain’ risks Irish anger [Click] I continue incredulous at English politicians’ ignorance of Anglo-Irish history.
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A couple of days ago I browsed through a men's store that has a dandy selection of hats; in addition to cowboy hats and suchlike, they had traditional wool hats: top hats (of varying heights), bowlers, porkpie hats, fedoras, and hombergs. In this climate such hats are unreasonable, as are overcoats and wool suits--no matter how good they can look. I made one discovery about bowler hats: their crowns are VERY stiff--like helmets, really. Researching it, I discovered that they are impregnated with shellac--allegedly to protect riders' heads from low-hanging tree branches.
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ReplyDeleteThe old INS was far more civilized than ICE; the agents were not only better screened and trained, their backgrounds were far different--not just cops and wannabe cops.
The INS produced the odd atrocity or two, but far fewer and, looking back, somewhat less egregious.
What I don't get is the clamor to abolish ICE. Have these people never left the country and re-entered? Don't they understand what Customs is? The entire system needs to be reorganized from top to bottom and far more strictly run and regulated, but you can't just abolish services that handle immigration, customs and the like!
BTW I forgot to mention, Alan, your Latin observation on the last thread was most apposite. It also gave me a wry smile.
The window is open for the first time this year, the afternoon being lovely and sunny. Today's high is projected to be 73 last I heard. Of course, the warm weather won't last past today, but one is thankful for small mercies.
ReplyDeleteBetter to reform the ICE; I don't think it is so far gone that it merits being burnt to the ground and rebuilt from clean ashes. But neither did I think that of the INS. Several years back the former head of the INS in this are wrote a column about the considerable differences in personnel for the two services.
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the Latin tidbit, Cat; I figured that with such a highly cultured group of correspondents neither translation nor commentary was necessary.
P.S.: We have been having daytime highs in the mid-70's F when it has been sunny for several weeks now. Very nice indeed. More rain before winter is unlikely.
DeleteWe had highs in the 60s one day last week, but mostly in the 50s. Spring-jacket weather. No sign of crocuses or of trees leafing out.
ReplyDeleteBut my wife has been watching the weather report and they say possible snow tomorrow. Is this spring? Maybe so. The massive Easter snowstorm is still legend in Chicago.
DeleteThinking of ICE and INS, the latter did not arrest people at courthouses.
ReplyDeleteWe hit at least 68F today!! a smattering of crocuses in bloom, though very little leafing out just yet. Ah, but the lilac buds are beginning to swell.
ReplyDeleteWe went to a play tonight called Shakespeare's Ghost. It was a one-man play about the life and works of Shakespeare as told by Shakespeare's Ghost...with much wit and many clips from the plays. Outstanding! He got a much deserved immediate standing ovation. This was done at the Highland Center for the Arts, which is only two years old and includes gallery, cafe, one-screen movie theatre, and marvelously a theatre in the round built to look like a smaller version of the Globe in London. It's a $14 million building gifted by a person who vacationed in the area for many years. And it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. It takes us about an hour to get to it, on very bumpy back roads. And it's totally worth the trip!
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the play the actor told us that he was visiting someone in the area and went out to find lunch. He happened upon this unusual building and saw the sign for the cafe. So he stopped in. When he saw that the theatre was modeled on The Globe, he said, "Oh, do I have a show for you!" And that's how he came to be there doing this play!! AMAZING story!
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