Comments: 8
BrokenTune 5 years ago
Agatha cribbing from Will? Somehow, I am not surprised. :)
Well, we know about her fascination with the commedia dell' arte ... and there's an (otherwise very lovely) "Italian Masque" featuring the traditional characters -- Arlecchino, Columbine, Pulcinello, Pulcinella, etc. -- which has decided overtones of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ... down to Pulcinello's epilogue, which is a pretty blatant mix of "If we shadows have offended" and Rosalind's epilogue from "As You Like It".
BrokenTune 5 years ago
Well, we are after all talking about the author who blatantly recycled Will's other phrases including "taken at the flood" and "by the pricking of my thumbs"... ;)
I rather like when she does this actually. It makes me want to read the originals closer. Much like Sayers has caused me to pick up some Donne...which I am hoping to get to next year.
Oh -- Donne's poetry or other writings?
BrokenTune 5 years ago
Poetry. The Everyman's Library edition. :)
Excellent! I read quite a bit of his poetry -- and bought Stubbs's biography of him -- while reading and after having read Mary Novik's "Conceit" (which is straight fiction insofar as it largely focuses on his daughter, but also has a fair bit of Donne himself -- and his and his wife's love story --, chiefly based on his bio by his disciple Izaak Walton).
BrokenTune 5 years ago
Yet another case of how books lead to more books. :)
Definitely ...