[DanaC]

Also, movies tend to drop the stuff that's less readily accessible to a modern audience. Quite often that involves dropping bits of humour. A classic example is in Othello. The scene where Iago makes a joke about an enema, the terminology is so archaic it tends to get dropped. I've only seen that bit included in old BBC stage productions.



My current reading is mainly around my dissertation... a particularly good one is Equivocal Beings, by Claudia Johnson. Fascinating stuff. Looking at women writers of the 1790s-1830s and how they placed themselves in the national debate. It's quite a difficult text for me to get my head around in places. I am used to reading historians and this is from the lit crit section. I find the lexicon difficult to get to grips with. I hadn't realised how comfortable I'd become in my own field.

For leisure, I am on an audio book. I mainly prefer to read novels myself, but every so often I go through an audio book phase. Right now that's driven by the fact I really like the reader on this series of books. It's the second in the Dexter series: Dearly Devoted Dexter. Makes excellent night time listening. I love Jeff Lindsay's writing style. It is so lyrical and playful. The guy who reads them has really caught that I think.