The Tiv and Hamlet September 12, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary, Modern
Laura Bohannan (aka Elenore Smith Bowen) was an anthropologist who came out of Oxford in the late 1940s. She did research with her husband Paul among the Tiv of Nigeria and the pair published several books on this federation over the next two decades. However, Bohannan also gave a remarkable BBC radio talk entitled, depending on [...]
Shakespeare’s lost letters July 29, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
There are several of Shakespeare’s works that are lost. For example, his plays Cardenio (written with Fletcher) and Love’s Labour Won both appear to have disappeared down the plug hole of time. And to these we should perhaps add a collection of Shakespearean letters that perhaps made it through to the very end of the eighteenth century. [...]
