“He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.” Shakespeare wrote eight history plays about the Wars of the Roses. Richard III, Henry V and Part 1 of Henry IV get plenty of showings, still. The others languish in varying degrees of obscurity. The tragedy of these histories is that there is so much good stuff that […]
YouTuber Nando v Movies is the innovator behind a fabulous series of event playlists, where he invited video essayists to choose one scene in a movie or series to analyse, and speak to its virtues. Previous years have seen “One Marvellous Scene” and “One X-cellent Scene“. This time around it’s “One Villainous Scene”, that is, […]
When I’m having a bad day, and finding it difficult to make myself do anything purposeful, I have a system of breaking down the things that need dong into smaller and simpler tasks, until I get to something so basic that I can do it. The level at which ‘I can’ kicks in varies depending […]
Today, 25th October is the Feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers and leatherworkers, but remembered mostly through that big speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V. Happily, the first play I used as a case study in my All Strut, No Fret: Steps Into Shakespeare YouTube series is Henry V, and so I […]
Anna Kamaralli 