Secret Diary Club: Sweary scholar
Illumination from a misunderstanding, a totally over the top and sweary theatre review, and Marlowe scholars observed in their natural habitat
Welcome to the Secret Diary Club! This week’s three behind-the-scenes entries include a heavy moment alleviated by five minutes of yoga, a book review, a very sweary review of the Globe’s new production of Much Ado About Nothing (which opened on Thursday), some thoughts as I edit the penultimate chapter of my decade-long book project, and a notable entry from October 2013, when I was at a Marlowe conference in Virginia, and about to fly home to find out the result of the Desmond Elliott debut novel prize.
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Wednesday 24th April 2024
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Context: my uncertainties about the genuineness of a correspondent illuminate another layer of damage that needs healing, which became the seed of this week’s post. Names and identifying details changed to protect the innocent.
Asana Rebel is a yoga app. Piranesi is Susanna Clarke’s 2021 Women’s Fiction Prize-winning novel. Milly is my daughter. We have recently started doing ‘buddy reads’ together. The first was Ursula le Guin’s classic The Left Hand of Darkness. We both disliked it.