Linnet’s Top Posts of 2015
Happy New Year, everyone! Fittingly for this blog, my most-visited posts of 2015 all feature Beautiful Men. Or Beautiful Males, at …
Happy New Year, everyone! Fittingly for this blog, my most-visited posts of 2015 all feature Beautiful Men. Or Beautiful Males, at …
Regarding the new production of Hamlet at the Barbican in London, Ben Brantley of the New York Times was surprisingly dismissive of the supporting …
Nature Boy: Hamlet at the Barbican Spoiler alert. Everyone knows the plot of Hamlet, but this post contains plenty of …
In favor of Claudius, the sinister, archetypal wicked uncle of Hamlet, it has to be stated that he is good …
Oh Mr. H., of all the plays you could do, you have to pick the one with Benedict Cumberbatch. Which …
According to T. S. Eliot, the naming of cats is a difficult matter. So is naming the protagonists of one’s fiction–especially one’s romantic …
I am by no means one of those women who call themselves “Cumberbitches.” But I’d love him to cumber my …
Like Achilles, to whom he is so often compared, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was known for his beauty. Especially among …
A Man of Beauty is a joy for ever: His loveliness increases; he will never Pass into nothingness; but still …
The best thing about Benedict Cumberbatch is his name. The Latinate Benedict (Blessed) followed by the Anglo-Saxon coombe and bache, denoting …