I love the connection to your grandad. What a precious thread to have woven into your story. 1599 sounds so interesting. I’ll look into it. 🤣 your husband’s answers 😂 so kind🤭 Twelfth Night is my favorite too. Beautiful soliloquy choice.
Haha my husband is always so kind!! Yes it was nice to reflect on that for this tag, the influence that he had and still has on that part of my reading.
Great video, Tilly 🎉 I love "Twelfth Night," very much, too (I saw it in Chicago circa 2015). I used to check out VCR tapes from BBC, like Sir Derek Jacoby playing Hamlet!
How lucky to have a granddad who loved Shakespeare, for me it was my mum and we had a book of Shakespeare stories as kids - pretty sure Titus Andronicus was not in there! 😉 Also find it hilarious that you introducing your husband to Shakespeare has backfired, Caliban indeed. - although I’m probably the same before tea in the morning! Oh and excellent reading of the excerpt from Richard II Tilly!
So lucky indeed. I can imagine Titus Andronicus was not in the kids' version! But so nice that your mum introduced you to Shakespeare in that way. When I enthused about The Tempest and dragged him to see it with Simon Russell Beale this was not the expected result although I have to admit he may have a point.
This was wonderful. Caliban is complex and underrated as a character--there's a little Caliban locked up deep inside all of us. Your soliloquy was magnificent!
Hello! Nice meeting you for the first time. (Very curious about your camper van!) Thanks for sharing your stories about your granddad and your acting experience - I loved hearing them :) I'm reading 1599 at the moment. It's amazing! Ralph Fiennes' film version of Coriolanus was my favourite screen adaptation last year. I'd recommend it if you're interested to give it another go. I like him as a character. Really glad you chose the soliloquy from Richard II. I was going to choose the one where he smashes the mirror but decided to go with something happier so I went with Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hope to see you around!
Hello Nicole, thank you for watching! This was actually our last trip with this campervan. It's a tiny microcamper and now we have a lanky dog we're getting a van with just a smidgen of extra space. Looking forward to fitting it up. I didn't know there was a Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus, maybe I will try it again. At least this time I will be better prepared. I do really like the history plays (mainly thanks to the Hollow Crown adaptations) so it was a logical choice, but Bottom is definitely funnier!
I posted on Goodreads that I imagine Richard III is the most bloody play and someone replied it was Titus Andronicus so it's mad you did that at school. Love that your husband instantly called you out as Hamlet 😂
Yes the bloodthirstiness of Titus is really quite extreme - do check it out if you haven't done previously. I do wonder if my drama teacher was bored of repeating Romeo and Juliet (which my brother got to do I think) and just decided to go wild one year. In the last couple of days it has become a refrain - every time I hesitate over anything I get told "Stop being such a Hamlet." Maybe a cure for my indecisiveness will be the result! Hopefully without any murders.
Your soliloquy was wonderful! I love the image of you as Titus! Thank you so much for doing this tag! 💛
Thank you! I wish there was a recording of that performance as I'd be interested to know how well we did really.
I love the connection to your grandad. What a precious thread to have woven into your story.
1599 sounds so interesting. I’ll look into it.
🤣 your husband’s answers 😂 so kind🤭
Twelfth Night is my favorite too.
Beautiful soliloquy choice.
Haha my husband is always so kind!!
Yes it was nice to reflect on that for this tag, the influence that he had and still has on that part of my reading.
I'm so glad you did add the soliloquy to the end of this. It was wonderful.
Thank you. There are so many to choose from but I just love the grandiose introspection.
Great video, Tilly 🎉 I love "Twelfth Night," very much, too (I saw it in Chicago circa 2015). I used to check out VCR tapes from BBC, like Sir Derek Jacoby playing Hamlet!
It was so cool to have that huge archive of BBC Shakespeares to choose from. Twelfth Night is good fun.
How lucky to have a granddad who loved Shakespeare, for me it was my mum and we had a book of Shakespeare stories as kids - pretty sure Titus Andronicus was not in there! 😉 Also find it hilarious that you introducing your husband to Shakespeare has backfired, Caliban indeed. - although I’m probably the same before tea in the morning! Oh and excellent reading of the excerpt from Richard II Tilly!
So lucky indeed. I can imagine Titus Andronicus was not in the kids' version! But so nice that your mum introduced you to Shakespeare in that way.
When I enthused about The Tempest and dragged him to see it with Simon Russell Beale this was not the expected result although I have to admit he may have a point.
This was wonderful. Caliban is complex and underrated as a character--there's a little Caliban locked up deep inside all of us. Your soliloquy was magnificent!
"There's a little Caliban locked up deep inside all of us" - excellent, fully agree! And thank you, I did enjoy reading it.
Hello! Nice meeting you for the first time. (Very curious about your camper van!)
Thanks for sharing your stories about your granddad and your acting experience - I loved hearing them :)
I'm reading 1599 at the moment. It's amazing!
Ralph Fiennes' film version of Coriolanus was my favourite screen adaptation last year. I'd recommend it if you're interested to give it another go. I like him as a character.
Really glad you chose the soliloquy from Richard II. I was going to choose the one where he smashes the mirror but decided to go with something happier so I went with Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Hope to see you around!
Hello Nicole, thank you for watching! This was actually our last trip with this campervan. It's a tiny microcamper and now we have a lanky dog we're getting a van with just a smidgen of extra space. Looking forward to fitting it up.
I didn't know there was a Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus, maybe I will try it again. At least this time I will be better prepared.
I do really like the history plays (mainly thanks to the Hollow Crown adaptations) so it was a logical choice, but Bottom is definitely funnier!
@@tillysshelfWould love to see your new van! (Yes I LOVE the Hollow Crown and Ben Whishaw’s Richard II!)
I posted on Goodreads that I imagine Richard III is the most bloody play and someone replied it was Titus Andronicus so it's mad you did that at school. Love that your husband instantly called you out as Hamlet 😂
Yes the bloodthirstiness of Titus is really quite extreme - do check it out if you haven't done previously. I do wonder if my drama teacher was bored of repeating Romeo and Juliet (which my brother got to do I think) and just decided to go wild one year.
In the last couple of days it has become a refrain - every time I hesitate over anything I get told "Stop being such a Hamlet." Maybe a cure for my indecisiveness will be the result! Hopefully without any murders.