{"id":3913,"date":"2023-01-08T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2023-01-08T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:53:32","slug":"twelfth-night-and-struck-down-by-lurgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Twelfth Night And Struck Down By Lurgy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All week I was right back to studying big time. I had done so well! I got right back into it from New Year\u2019s Day and even before that I started to read the set book of Twelfth Night. By Thursday I had worked through two weeks of study. I gave myself the day off on Friday and I was hoping to get out of the house but we\u2019ve been having problems with our boiler and a guy was going to be coming to repair it so I decided to just stay home. As the day progressed, I progressed more into cold symptoms. Twelfth Night, eh! Lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I was feeling absolutely crap! I just stayed in bed all day. Today I am still heavy with cold but I feel better and although I am isolating myself in my room (I don\u2019t want my OH to get a cold as the last time I had one – in November – she got it too and it took her about 8 weeks to get over the thing! I don\u2019t want to subject her to that again), I have been up and about and out of bed and I even had my bedroom windows open for a couple of hours to get air in and rid the room of germs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not behind by any means, but I didn\u2019t want the study I had so diligently done to then be swallowed up by me getting ill!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really enjoyed the study. I actually liked Twelfth Night and it is the first time I have studied Shakespeare like that and I FINALLY got to appreciate what a clever sod he is with his use of language. Reading along to the play while listening to a BBC Radio 3 adaptation of it really helped me to get to grips with the dialogue. We were also given short clips of a theatre production to watch and that helped with interpreting the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, despite being full of lurgy and in bed, I watched a production performed at the Globe Theatre in 2012. This production starred Johnny Flynn (of the universally panned David Bowie biopic, Stardust) and Samuel Barnett as Voila\/Cesario and Sebastian, respectively, Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Mark Rylance as Olivia. I actually found myself not that taken with Stephen Fry\u2019s Malvolio – I didn\u2019t think he played it with enough emotion to draw in the empathy that the character is deserving of from the audience. Mark Rylance\u2019s Olivia was great and he gave her comedic overtones which was great. I could watch Samuel Barnett all day and wish he had been playing Voila\/Cesario instead of Sebastian as he didn\u2019t have as much stage time as the role of the brother offers. Johnny Flynn seemed wooden to me. I kept thinking that if his performance here was anything to go by, no wonder the Bowie biopic got panned! (It was as much for its ludicrous script and the refusal of the Bowie estate to allow any of his music to be used in the film as anything else that sealed its fate.) I sadly came away from having watched it more wishing that I hadn\u2019t. Rylance, Barnett\u2019s and the actor playing Feste were the people that saved it. The actor playing Maria was quite good too. He played her with a particularly conniving nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samuel Barnett as Sebastian, Mark Rylance as Olivia and Johnny Flynn as Viola in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Tim Carroll at the Apollo Theatre in London. (Photo by robbie jack\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I\u2019m still on target to get through reading Jane Eyre in good time. I had set myself a reasonably doable target of two weeks to read it, in tandem with studying the course material as I go. Actually, I am allowing for some days in which I won\u2019t be able to read any of the book at all (too many tutorials in one day, and a gig in Edinbugh in about 10 days time) – so I have over 2 weeks from tomorrow ro get it read and there being two weeks left until the next assignment is due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been drinking a lot of water today and trying to get myself feeling better to shake this cold off nice and early. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll feel even better tomorrow and should at least start reading Jane Eyre even if I actually don\u2019t start back up with study until Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All week I was right back to studying big time. I had done so well! I got right back into it from New Year\u2019s Day and even before that I started to read the set book of Twelfth Night. By Thursday I had worked through two weeks of study. I gave myself the day off … <\/p>\n

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