Category: BBC

‘Weak with toil, yet strong in appetite’

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Ron Cook in the BBC’s 1983 production.  Underrated.

‘You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.’

What do Sundays look like for an English teacher and Shakespeare obsessive?

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A chronological nightmare …

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“Like an Early Modern game of ‘Find The Lady’, my expectations seem to be defied at every turn, and no two results were the same!”

I’ve been toying with the idea of a Shakespeare readathon for a while, and am trying to justify it to myself.  When I do work out the ‘why?’, I’ll post …

In the meantime, a friend received a full set of BBC Shakespeare on DVD for Christmas.  This worried me quite a bit: mostly because I had a small (and I DO mean small) cameo in the gift’s selection. But, what if she hates them, or simply finds them staid and sooo-1980s? Their overwhelmingly earnest nature and general quaintness – which I find as endearing as original series Star Trek – might pall quickly.

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BBC/RSC Live Anniversary show

Did anyone else watch the BBC’s RSC Live show last night?

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