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Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight

By ⋅ June 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We have heard the chimes at midnight… – Shakespeare, Henry IV For as long as I remember, Orson Welles’ 1965 film Chimes at Midnight (AKA Falstaff) – in which The Great Round One shamelessly yet seamlessly spliced together five different Shakespeare plays to create one cinematic masterpiece – has been fiendishly difficult to get hold [...]

Danse Macabre

By ⋅ September 12, 2008 ⋅ One comment

“Sometime in mid-July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and started to dance.” There was a fascinating piece on this morning’s Today Programme about a historical curiosity I’d never heard of before. This dancing woman was soon joined by others – men, women and children – and by the [...]

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