English Humour and A New World reviews
Sep. 20th, 2009 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearFriday night saw us back at The Globe for a play all about Thomas Paine, called A New World. As with other plays we've been to see at The Globe, it was excellent - lots of great characters, really good writing, an enthusiastic cast, and very well staged. I learned a lot of things I didn't previously know, and we got seats on the back row so we had back rests, which made it less uncomfortable than it would otherwise have been.
After reading about it in the introduction to Diary Of A Nobody, Dave bought me a book called English Humour by J B Priestley. It was part of a series of English Heritage books written in the 1930s, and it tracked the history of English Humour on the stage and in print. The style was fabulously condescending and over-written, and it mostly talked about performers and authors I'd never heard of, but it was entertaining all the same, and reminded me how much I actually enjoy books about literature.
After reading about it in the introduction to Diary Of A Nobody, Dave bought me a book called English Humour by J B Priestley. It was part of a series of English Heritage books written in the 1930s, and it tracked the history of English Humour on the stage and in print. The style was fabulously condescending and over-written, and it mostly talked about performers and authors I'd never heard of, but it was entertaining all the same, and reminded me how much I actually enjoy books about literature.
