The Sepo chief thinks that Shakespeare:
"...had a majestic way with words, trivial though the content was." (28, p. 267)
That is Poul Anderson's comment on the superficiality of the Avantist ideology.
Kyra prepares for a private dinner with the Selenarch Rinndalir where they will finally discuss serious business. While waiting in Rinndalir's stronghold of Zamok Vysoki:
"She screened a recording of an Earthside The Tempest which she liked, but found that it wasn't registering on her. A Midsummer Night's Dream, maybe? No, that would go too near the bone." (29, 277.
Because Rinndalir and Niolente are too like Oberon and Titania?
Poul Anderson wrote A Midsummer Tempest, a sequel to both plays, and Shakespeare wrote these two plays for Neil Gaiman's Morpheus. See Poul Anderson And Neil Gaiman. Any reference to either play, let alone both, always resonates.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would consider the Lunarians to be more like the elves of THE BROKEN SWORD and THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS than like the Oberon and Titania of A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST.
Sean
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