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 …
Tag Archives: Benedict Cumberbatch
Leave Polonius, Take The Cannoli
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
Nature Boy: Hamlet at the Barbican Spoiler alert. Everyone knows the plot of Hamlet, but this post contains plenty of …
Hyperion To A Satyr: Hamlet’s Sexy Uncle
In favor of Claudius, the sinister, archetypal wicked uncle of Hamlet, it has to be stated that he is good …
Conniption Fit
Oh Mr. H., of all the plays you could do, you have to pick the one with Benedict Cumberbatch. Which …
Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
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 …
Mediocrity Knows Nothing Higher Than Itself*
I am by no means one of those women who call themselves “Cumberbitches.” But I’d love him to cumber my …
Iron Age Fan Clubs
Like Achilles, to whom he is so often compared, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was known for his beauty. Especially among …
Keats Renaissance
A Man of Beauty is a joy for ever: His loveliness increases; he will never Pass into nothingness; but still …
The Bearable Lightness of Benedict Cumberbatch
The best thing about Benedict Cumberbatch is his name. The Latinate Benedict (Blessed) followed by the Anglo-Saxon coombe and bache, denoting …
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