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Archive for January, 2012

Samuel Lawrence’s 1864 painting of Trollope — my favorite of all the images (I don’t have it in color) Dear readers and friends, Over on Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two, under the stress of the usual stigmatization and occasional spiteful harassment I have to endure where I teach as an adjunct lecturer, I [...]

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The actual table Dear friends and readers, Last night Jim and I went to the Folger Shakespeare theater to see an adaptation of Susannah Centlivre’s The Basset Table. I want to recommend seeing it, urge readers who live in the DC area or not far away to come and enjoy. They (everyone involved it seemed) [...]

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Caliban (Luca Pisaroni) in the midst of a nightmare Dear friends and readers, From the Baroque period we have had opera seria and opera buffa. Now we have opera mash-up. The Met is attempting to dignify their daring creation with a pedigree by using the word “pasticcio.” Not only in opera, but on the legitimate [...]

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Amy Clampitt A Thrush singing in Dorsetshire Dear friends and readers, This foremother poet blog on Amy Clampitt, is done differently from most. I was so taken by her “The Hermit Thrush” after reading a review in Women’s Review of Books of a newly published book of her poems, that I wrote a brief foremother [...]

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Beth Hardiman, from Tamara Drewe Alexandra, from The Night Bookmobile Dear friends and readers, A couple of years ago now I became aware of how graphic novels have grown up; they are no longer fancied up comic books; the art and words can be as complex and moving as many a sheer verbal longer novel. [...]

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Gary Oldman (got up to recall Alec Guiness, but he himself resembles and is photographed to recall LeCarre himself): George Smiley now Dear friends and readers, I went to see this yesterday with Izzy and we both liked it very much. I recommend it as a superbly well done commercially oriented film — as were [...]

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An imagined portrait of Margaret Woffington’s first interview with theater-owner and manager, John Rich (whose theater harbored many cats is the joke) Francis Abingdon as Lady Bab in in Burgoyne’s Fair Maid of the Oats by John Hickey Dear friends and readers, On and off for the past couple of months, I’ve been reading Felicity [...]

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