I am finding Emma Watson's and Jay Shetty's podcast very, very profound this morning! open.spotify.com/episode/036T...

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🎯 Very hopeful for my GCSE tutees' results tomorrow! 🤞

Really enjoyed the Theatre Royal Bath's performance of As You Like It on Friday!
www.theatreroyal.org.uk/events/as-you-like-it/

‘English is the fifth most popular A Level subject. This is not always well-known because entries are split across the three qualifications – English Literature, English Language, English Language & Literature.’ 2/3

Writing up a performance review draft today!

I have passed my viva, with minors, this afternoon!

Thank you to my examiners and supervisors, reviewer, and personal supporters (all) along the way... you've been wonderful.

I'm officially an ECR! 🥂

Will Somers' voice, 40 years on, was used by Thomas Nashe in 1600, for Summer's Last Will and Testament. The closing line? Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli ("I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone"). I wonder which house 'hic/here' actually was..

"them that will themselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ... shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it" Ham. 3.2.38-42

Laughter is apparently infectious. But mobilising laughter to bring on others' mirth is apparently unwise, unmannerly, or unrefined?

The Cucko is a bird that singeth alway one song & is a slouthful bird but he bydeth nat longe in one place & [...] In the winter goeth he in a hole of the grownde within a holow tre [....] & bydeth therein and there hath mete ynoughe by him prouyded [till] the summer season.
Hortus Sanitatis, 1527

Really enjoying this one!

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#notjustthetudors #mrsshakespeare
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I am looking forward to this!