(Editor’s note: The performance shown above was taped back in 1977. Go here for a contemporary performance— Béatrice strips down to her slip for this one—but with French subtitles only. My review is based on a 2016 Glyndebourne production available via subscription from “Marquee TV” on Amazon Video. I particularly liked Stéphanie d’Oustrac in the…
Tag: Shakespeare
Shakespeare versus Molière: Who’s better?
(Author’s Note: This is a long, rambling, almost random set of musings on some of the comedies of two of the greatest dramatists in western letters. As it turns out, I have heavily leavened my own “thoughts” with long quotations from both authors, which may strike some readers as excessive. Well, if you don’t like…
T. S. Eliot, frequently irritating, yet not always wrong
If you read my recent ear-boxing of literary super star T. S. Eliot, “T. S. Eliot a Prissy Sh*t, studies show”, you know I’m not a big fan of the pride of St. Louis, making rather raucous fun of his abysmal mistreatment of his long-time (until he got tired of her) soulmate, Emily Hale, and…
Nothing from Cleveland at this website
I may be writing about pornography and Shakespeare later this week, but not in the same post.