tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14496565.post115585262437024689..comments2008-09-28T22:33:34.540+01:00Comments on The Silver Eel: The Silver Eelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615661656637047142noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14496565.post-1157306675803128772006-09-03T19:04:00.000+01:002006-09-03T19:04:00.000+01:00We went to see a production of Midsummer Night's D...We went to see a production of Midsummer Night's Dream in which Bottom had an arse for a head (rather vulgar perhaps but quite possibly what Shakespeare intended people to read into it, since the character was called Bottom).<BR/><BR/>One of the things I enjoy about English as a language is the rich veins of Anglo-Saxon, with the crusty loam of Norman French overlaying it, and a few nuggets of Latin and Greek lying about in the topsoil.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14496565.post-1155909706931617352006-08-18T15:01:00.000+01:002006-08-18T15:01:00.000+01:00Hmm, I did listen to this a couple of years back a...Hmm, I did listen to this a couple of years back and didn't enjoy it at all. I think McInnery is quite a good actor -having watched him play some quite chilling characters (think A Very British Coup for example) he can clearly do more than Captain Darling (although that is a work of genius). But the accents and language struck me as utterly wrong and McInnery was simply not how I see crafty Odysseus, but then to be fair years of reading the Iliad and Odyssey (since I was about 7 or 8) do mean I probably have a more rigid mental image of the old fox and how he should be played. Not as effective as say Seamus Heaney's modern interpretation of Beowulf I thought.<BR/><BR/>Good point on the pronunciation of Big Bill Shakey though; it is one of the things which amuses me when certain people constantly complain about the debasement of the English language today. Since the language is and always has been a dynamic and living creature constantly evolving and changing it does seem quite ridiculous to complain about it. A static language is a dead language, like Latin. You say tomato I say extra mushroom topping please.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257155435655575336noreply@blogger.com