Recent acquisitions:
📖 Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 by Michael Bennett
📖 Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) by William F. Murphy [recommended by Colm Toíbín in his book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, which I enjoyed]
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
One final play yet to see at the Stratford Festival before heading home tomorrow. Brad Fraser‘s adaptation has a gay Richard II and is set in New York in the disco clubs of the late 70s and early 80s. Can‘t wait!
August 4 #BookBinge Impulse Read Sometime I find books at family homes where I go I should read this lol. This was my last Impulse Read I found at my daughter Renee's house. It was good. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI just saw this book and decided why not. I love British history. I bogled my mind how bloody this event was. I also found two bingo spots on #ISpyBingoJune @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
I always enjoy Barker's books because I geek out over historiographical controversies and she does such a good job of evaluating every side of a historical question and laying out all the evidence. Here she argues that during the Peasants' Revolt John Ball never actually gave the famed Blackheath speech that is the centerpiece of most accounts of the uprising.
Enjoying a quiet morning with hot coffee and an interesting mystery.
so-soBond Men Made Free is all about providing context for the Wat Tyler Riot: so much context, context that reaches back a couple of centuries and extends across Europe. But he devotes a scant 7 pages devoted to the riots themselves. A lot of what Hilton has to say here is interesting -- he has a particular interest in social class -- and I'm glad I read the book. But I wished to learn a little more about the uprising itself.
Oddly, for not being my favorite of Shakespeare‘s plays ('Hamlet') or one of the #Bard5 ('Hamlet' · 'Romeo and Juliet' · 'Macbeth' · 'Julius Caesar' · 'Much Ado About Nothing'), this History play has gotten quite the workout in the past few years!
I‘ve actually just re-read the play for the third or fourth time now and am wrapping the month up with some literary criticism, podcasts and stuff ?
