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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

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Look, will you stop it! I'm still trying to catch up on the reading list concerning recent conflicts, now you're adding the Bard too? (there's only so many hours in the day you know).

OK, I know I was supposed to have read it all at school but there always seemed to be better things to do (drinking, girls, etc. and that was before I even started Grammar school).

Coriolanus? Now if you want a real tortured hero, with virtues and faults aplenty, that I can relate to, why not Captain Carrot? (Guards. Guards - Terry Pratchett). I like to think of Sam Vimes as my role model (smoking, drinking, no L&T in my BLT sandwich and a thorough understanding of economics [check out his economic theory of boots]) although from personal experience I feel I have more in common with Rincewind. Then of course there is my 'Beau Ideal' Granny Weatherwax (whilst I been privileged to meet many handsome, intelligent, independent, capable ladies through the years they all fall short - they all refuse to wear the big boots and pointy hat :-( )

(Sorry but if you can't follow the classical allusions then that shows a gap in your obviously in-depth education doesn't it? ;-) )

OK, I admit it, I'm Nakulturny but I know all the words to 'Bat Out of hell' does that count? (I'll just go stand in the corner shall I?)

"You common cry of curs...!"

I really liked Coriolanus when I did it for A levels several hundred years ago. It has a really simple plot, without all that impersonation and cross-dressing for comic effect, which I am too dull-witted to follow without expert and patient help.

I seem to remember that the Greek term for "tragic flaw" was hamartia. Coriolanus was also a bit of a mummy's boy, wasn't he, deep down?

Contempt for the mob is something we need to see more of in our politicians.

Able, you have just written my life story!

"OK, I know I was supposed to have read it all at school but there always seemed to be better things to do (drinking, girls, etc. and that was before I even started Grammar school)".

I blame that little (or not so little) Josephin B**** who sat across the aisle from me!

It's a terrific play, 'W', and you're right, his monstrous mother drives him to destruction. She is one of the best female roles for an older woman in all of Shakespeare. I gather she is played in the film by Vanessa Redgrave.

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