Theatre

At the end of the holidays we went as a family to the Globe Theatre, to which I had not been before. We stood in the Yard, and while you need fine weather, and I would not have wanted to have done that for three hours of Hamlet for the slapstick entertainment of The Comedy of Errors it was huge fun.

This brings to mind the following snippet of "school boy howlers" from Lionel Milford's Haileybury College Past and Present.



 "The contrast between a Greek play and an English play":

" Greek plays were merely poetry, without much dramatic instinct. A person on the point of death will lapse into a fine speech on Thracian Spinning or the Setting Sun. The Chorus must always have several entries, and make several pointless remarks, every one at the same time.

" An English play is not so poetical, has a clever plot, and the speeches are to the point. Also, they do not give way to such frightful murders."

Greek Chorus "pointless"