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proximoception10. Troilus and Cressida
Found myself giving Pandar the voice of Eric Idle's "Nudge nudge" guy. I still like this play a lot. Its intentions are half send-up but half indescribable. It's from Shakespeare's eclipse-dark midlife crisis, so much like Bergman's three hundred and sixty-five years later, but one of the more buoyant examples. His language, in particular, is about as on as in any of the Four Tragedies. It put me onto:
11. Kings
This is Christopher Logue's adaptation of The Iliad 1 & 2 and it is fantastic. Everyone who would know says it's fantastic and it turns out they do know. Can his original verse be this good? My only exposure to him was as Swinburne to Oliver Reed's D.G. Rossetti in Dante's Inferno.
I have all his other Iliad installments - collectively called War Music - here but Cold Calls which I hope Julie's library's got. There's a final section he's still working on, which despite the fact he's only adapted about half its 24 books is apparently not based on any section of The Iliad (!). He's an octogenarian, started this thing in the 1950s.
I have never cared the slightest about The Iliad but he is giving it the full Carson and I'm excited now.
Found myself giving Pandar the voice of Eric Idle's "Nudge nudge" guy. I still like this play a lot. Its intentions are half send-up but half indescribable. It's from Shakespeare's eclipse-dark midlife crisis, so much like Bergman's three hundred and sixty-five years later, but one of the more buoyant examples. His language, in particular, is about as on as in any of the Four Tragedies. It put me onto:
11. Kings
This is Christopher Logue's adaptation of The Iliad 1 & 2 and it is fantastic. Everyone who would know says it's fantastic and it turns out they do know. Can his original verse be this good? My only exposure to him was as Swinburne to Oliver Reed's D.G. Rossetti in Dante's Inferno.
I have all his other Iliad installments - collectively called War Music - here but Cold Calls which I hope Julie's library's got. There's a final section he's still working on, which despite the fact he's only adapted about half its 24 books is apparently not based on any section of The Iliad (!). He's an octogenarian, started this thing in the 1950s.
I have never cared the slightest about The Iliad but he is giving it the full Carson and I'm excited now.
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Date: 2011-01-25 02:43 pm (UTC)Though, to be fair, Carson actually reads Greek.
Logue! Almost certainly the Iliad that dares to be the wittiest. (It's so affectively weird to see Homer overlaid with that kind of wit. Weird but good.)
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Date: 2011-01-25 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-25 11:35 pm (UTC)