Merlin is Robert Nye's irreverent, raunchy and often lyrical (Nye's a poet) take on the Arthur legend. Many scenes reminded me of John Boorman's "Excalibur." To take one example: Arthur and Mordred's fight at their last battle: Mordred in black armour rode to kill the king. King Arthur ran at Mordre...
bookshelves: currently-reading, radio-4x, amusing, autumn-2013, published-1993 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura The Bard's shrewd wife reveals how he left her his second-best bed. Stars Maggie Steed and Kenneth Cranham.Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jxb43* The Lat...
bookshelves: fraudio, alternative-history, amusing Read in January, 2009 By Robert Nye, dramatised by Jonathan Broadbent.Pickleherring, a former boy actor in Shakespeare's company, reminisces from the vantage point of old age on his time spent with The Bard. As he finally finds love with a prosti...
I picked up this book because it is one of the required reading books for my son and school starts next week. On the positive side, it is a very readable retelling of the epic poem Beowulf. The story of Beowulf is one of those things that everyone should be familiar with since Beowulf and Grendel ...
By Robert Nye, dramatised by Jonathan Broadbent.Pickleherring, a former boy actor in Shakespeare's company, reminisces from the vantage point of old age on his time spent with The Bard. As he finally finds love with a prostitute named Polly, the lessons he learned from Shakespeare finally start to b...
Some Poems - Ernest Christopher Dowson, ...
Penthesilea/Fugue/Sisters - Robert Nye
Divisions On A Ground - Robert Nye
Basic Music: Functional Musicianship for...
The Faber book of sonnets - Robert Nye
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