Tag: Shakespeare
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Book Talk
Daunts bookshop in Marylebone is always a joy but to visit in an evening for a talk by an author just adds to the pleasure. The author was Harriet Walter and she was being interviewed by the historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett. I often wonder what writers think of their agents and publishers demanding that […]
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Originality
It is very difficult to be original don’t you think? Original thought is exceedingly rare. It is not surprising that everything in one way or another is derivative because we are all made up of our own set of life experiences and our encounters with others. I was discussing this topic with a bookseller recently. […]
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Reading the classics …
… well, being forced to actually. Wandering around my local Waterstones recently, I noticed a whole section on exam notes of various kinds: 11+ practice, SATs revision and various parts of the GCSE and A level English syllabi…syllabuses sounds more natural doesn’t it? Anyway, I had a look and found that all the literature was […]