Hester L-J

😭me too. I think. Possibly.

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I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
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or possibly used for timing? (both!!)

a rich one would bee but a bait to avarice, as if they prophetically foresaw the sacrilege of our age, wherein tombs of rich materials have tempted fingers, no less prophane than covetous, to demolish them. But hee is his own Monument, whose memorie is eternized in his writings.2/2

😭No Monument hath since been erected over him; whereof this reason is assigned, a mean one would be unproportionable to his deserts: and his executors would not bee so guiltie of so great an incongruitie: 1/2

I *think* the Pasold Fund (textile-related) is open to non-affiliated scholars? www.pasold.co.uk/important-in... & the Society for Theatre Research www.str.org.uk/grants-prize... has a historical remit; some of the Mellon grants are open to indy scholars www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-f...

the one that gets me is Michael Williams's grave in the churchyard at Charlecote: 'you have bereft me of all words'.... (Hamlet is all well and good, but...)

A photograph of a play in performance. A young man wearing a dark suit with a blue sash across his chest is sitting on a gold chair, pointing upwards with his left index finger. A young woman with dark hair, wearing a tweed overcoat, is kneeling beside him holding his other hand, looking worried. There is a table with elaborate flowers and candles out of focus in the background.

Hamlet: a sparrow falls...
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Hamlet & Horatio have these little moments throughout the play, but this is one of the most intimate, Hamlet reassuring his friend with philosophy: here, Tessa Wong & Hiran Abeysekera @nationaltheatre.org.uk NOW see it it's good.

A photograph of a character in a play. A young woman with short blonde hair, wearing a neat white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and dark trousers, against a dark background. She has a white fencing glove on her right hand, which is resting on the hilt of a fencing foil, point down; she's looking in that direction too, her head slightly lowered. Her left hand is on her hip.

Horatio is anxious; Hamlet too, but says he's been practising, honest...🤺
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Slightly later in the scene, but here's Maxine Peake at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2014, dir. Sarah Frankcom, looking cool, elegant, quizzical.

that is its own kind of cool.... (it's salutary looking at bloody amazon; because of stuff I quote in the first few pages, my edition of Romeo and Juliet was appearing in the Italian poetry rankings rather than the Shakespeare ones; the new one is being ranked in 'weaving'...)

also I got sick of typing out the whole title of the first book. my article and essay titles have generally got shorter too.

First book (Book Of PhD) had enormous subtitle. Second book was in a series that had standard formula (Shakespeare and...) I thought about the possibility of a subtitle for this one but the two key words are there in the title. I mean, no one knows what it means, but it piques curiosity. I think?!

It's worth, boringly, thinking about the online algorithm and keywords? will it show up on a search?

Not a historian, but very historicist?! Imminent (academic) book is enormous and has enormous chapters (15-28K), but broken down into sections, some of which are potentially quite self-contained? (was partly thinking about e-book consumption, the standalone download.) 2 word title, no subtitle.

Bertie is BIG! (trying to make 'Jesuitical songs for Jesuitical cats' scan...)

A photograph of characters in a play. Head and shoulders, against a dark background, a woman wearing a lacy Edwardian-style top with pearl jewellery and her dark hair in a chignon, in profile, her right hand on the chest of a young man, her left hand on his shoulder. She looks anxious. He is staring off to the right, wearing a black suit and tie, with a high collar.

Gertrude to Hamlet, via Anon Lord: play nicely??
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Gertrude wants Hamlet to apologise to Laertes before the beginning of the fencing match. A flashback to their relationship at the beginning of the play: Jane Lapotaire and Kenneth Branagh @the-rsc.bsky.social 1992

oooooo! EXCELLENT.

😭nooooooo!

delighted you are in Paris - hope that the talk goes well, that there is time for some considered FROMAGE purchasing (and to see you in college soon - it's been AGES...)

ah this is GREAT to hear Ellie! congratulations!!!

Second the Cluny but also www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/en - manageable, lovely, and the Renaissance holdings in particular are glorious.

A photograph of a character in a play. A tall young man standing alone on a stage; he is wearing black knee boots, black breeches, a black jacket with a pale coat over the top, belted and half hanging off his shoulders. He has a white shirt and is holding a red knitted scarf in his hands as he speaks.

Osric!? who even WAS that??
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Osric out & a transition as Hamlet & Horatio take stock. Here's David Warner @the-rsc.bsky.social 1965 (in soliloquy, earlier); he was v much the student prince (woolly scarf!) but what stands out here is his adolescent ungainliness.

Hiran Abeysekera as Hamlet, Tom Glenister as Laertes, Mary Higgins as Osric; dir. Rob Hastie, des. Ben Stones. GO AND SEE IT IT'S GOOD.

A photograph of a play in performance. Two young men wearing white fencing outfits are fighting with foils; another young person wearing fencing gear is umpiring. There are spectators. The side walls of the stage are partly painted with murals showing crowds and landscapes. .

Hamlet: I will do fencing OK
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Another slight fast forward, but, here's proper fencing in the current @nationaltheatre.org.uk Hamlet (earlier established as a Thing at the Danish court, when Claudius came from practice; they did have helmets earlier in the scene!)

A still from a colour film. In the centre, a young man is being helped into a white fencing jacket by another young man, wearing a dark shirt. Another young man wearing a dark suit is standing with his back to the camera on the left. There is a shattered mirror in the background.

Osric: so here's the deal...
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It's a fencing bout being set up not a duel; it helps if fencing is a thing at the Danish court (the @nationaltheatre.org.uk Hamlet does this v well). Here Hamlet (David Tennant) is zipped into his jacket by Horatio (Peter de Jersey)

DEFINITELY Galloway and Porter!!

Two young men in black jeans and black leather jackets, fighting with rapiers and daggers

Osric: luxury rapier accessories! Hamlet: what? Horatio: really!?
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Fast forward, spoiler, but this is a really nice poniard in Hamlet's left hand... Tom Hiddleston as Hamlet, Irfan Shamji as Laertes in the Rada production dir. Branagh, 2017.

nice!!

he's *interesting* - much more than a foil!! (or a gun for hire see what I did there)

A black and white photograph of a character in a film. A young man with dark hair, wearing elaborate Elizabethan-style costume (satin doublet, cloak etc) with a sword in his right hand.

A close-up of the same young man, with a white ruffled shirt collar and fur collar visible.

Hamlet: so what's the weapon of choice for Laertes the amazing swordsman??
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What Friday morning could not be improved by Terence Morgan as Laertes in Olivier's 1948 Hamlet?