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Category: Jacobean

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  A History of British Architecture: Tudor and Early Stuart 1540 to 1660

  Preamble So there will a few of these. Obviously largely generated by AI Claude. With my interjections and prompts in red text. The subject interests me and this is a way of fixing in my head. Well sort of. Anyway, in short, more for me than you. This all started…

  May 15, 2026
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  Cymbeline: Shakespeare and the Search for National Identity

  A diversion in which we examine Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and its commentary on the conception of British nationhood.

  April 21, 2026
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  Catching up (Part 2)

  March 2020 First week of March 2020. I see that I was still out and about but I also see that I avoided a few entertainments before the cancellations started in earnest and the first lockdown kicked in. I remember feeling a little nervous but obviously no precautions taken apart…

  October 25, 2021
• Culture Jacobean London Patriarchy Power Theatre Tragedy

  The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida Theatre ****

  The Duchess of Malfi Almeida Theatre, 2nd Jan 2020 No question Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall is talented. Her Summer and Smoke, the dreamy Three Sisters here last year and now this. And for those, like the Tourist, who get a little antsy about her intemperate use of de jour…

  February 12, 2020
• Acting Culture Jacobean London Romance Satire Shakespeare Theatre

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle Barbican Theatre, 8th June 2019 The Tourist has fallen embarrassingly behind on his documentation of a cultural life. Ironically because he has been on holiday. Unfortunately for you though this is not (yet) one of those countless dormant blogs, casualties of time and application.…

  July 27, 2019