What are you reading

[AndyRM]

Oh yes, we read that one too! IIRC it was set in the Holloway area of North London (near where I grew up) and I can remember that the main character's two friends were called Cummings and Goings.

Read Romeo and Juliet too. As well as Macbeth (I was Macbeth in our year's production of the play), Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. Mind you, it was a public school, so literature lessons were on the poncy side.

That said, it ignited my love of Shakespeare, and I've read much of his works and seen most of the plays off of my own bat. Titus Andronicus is *really* disturbing, though. I wonder what he was smoking when he wrote that one...

An English teacher of mine reckoned he intended it as a parody, which I always thought made a lot of sense.

 

[PeteXXX]

@Reynard My granny lived in Holloway, hence an interest in the book!
She was stone deaf due to the noise & an explosion working at the Woolwich Arsenal during WW1 but that's a tale for another day, and tgeead!

 

[Reynard]

An English teacher of mine reckoned he intended it as a parody, which I always thought made a lot of sense.

I believe that's correct.

 

[Reynard]

@Reynard My granny lived in Holloway, hence an interest in the book!
She was stone deaf due to the noise & an explosion working at the Woolwich Arsenal during WW1 but that's a tale for another day, and tgeead!

Archway end, or Highbury & Islington end? Either way, it was mum's patch as a district nurse back in the early 1980s.

 

[PeteXXX]

Archway end, or Highbury & Islington end? Either way, it was mum's patch as a district nurse back in the early 1980s.

Highbury & Islington IIRC. I have pics somewhere, too.

 

[stephec]

Finally found myself a copy of this, the front cover is a famous Cecil Beaton photo taken towards the end of the battle of Britain, he's only twenty years old there and has already been through plenty of stuff that he shouldn't have had to do.