Mayne’s The City Match, satirizing puritans: “Yesterday I went / To see a lady that has a parrot. My woman / While I was in discourse converted the fowl, / And now it can speak nought but Knox’s works. / So there’s a parrot lost.”
Not specified that it comes on - but you couldn't not, could you?

Next week: “At half-time, the home crowd were delighted when the second XI performed some scenes from that perennial favourite The Island Princess”.

Yes, absolutely! It would have made Imtiaz Habib very happy to see it.

And there's some great detail. Was that the Moorish Ambassador watching Hamlet in 1600? Not categorically impossible. And the night scene by the Thames, where as the camera moves Old St Paul's looms up where you would expect. For someone immersed in the stuff, the effect is uncanny. (3/3)

From a Shakespearean's POV - much more Hamlet than was in the novel, and that worked thrillingly well. Inevitably scope to argue about historical fidelity, but Shakespeare, glass houses, stones. (2/3)

Have emailed you!

That piece by you and Heather likewise! I had no idea Adams was a card-carrying white supremacist, which as you say gives a pretty chilling twist to the whole affair.

But it’s Berkhout’s show, and his essay is really marvellous. (5/5)

furtling around some typhoid-ridden backstreets around 1840, looking for an address that Shakespeare obviously never lived at, you might enjoy it. Meanwhile, Paster, Lesser, and Wolfe start on the more serious concerns. (4/5)

Berkhout’s essay is vast, and I only get to one small part, basically trying to reinforce and expand on his footnotes 89-102. If you like old maps, old newspapers, and (3/5)

Berkhout’s subject is the copy of Lambarde’s Archaionomia (1568) now at the Folger which contains what’s often called the “seventh signature” of Shakespeare.  No spoilers here, but it’s quite a wild ride. (2/5)

Likewise! Just don’t let on and hopefully no-one will ever know.

I second that OHHHHHHH!

That’s an amazing object!

Had not seen that! Thank you!

Did not know that! Will check it out! Also, fun trivia - it features in an episode of Peep Show where Mark is watching a performance of it.