“Take the fire as your OWN. You can use it! The houses that have been built around us are not made of stone. The stakes we have been tied to will NOT survive if our flames burn bright. If they try to burn you… may your fire be strong enough so you can burn the …
Because I am a gargantuan dork willing to arise at the crack of dawn to stand in line for 2 hours with other gargantuan dorks, I managed to score a literal £5 ticket to have my eyeballs blessed for more than 3 hours by the symphonic nuances of Sir Ian Mckellen, Mithrandir himself, as the …
My word, this play. So, few really know this one, am I right? Like, I’m a few months away from the end of a literature degree and only just read it. Some people might know the story from the Iliad, and then fewer still might be familiar with Chaucer’s version, but has anyone really seen …
“So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in the upshot, purposes mistook Fallen on th’inventors’ heads.” Lords of Kobol, this is seriously challenging The Tempest to be my most favourite play of all time. It should be …
