Thursday 8 November 2018

Shakespeare

Poul Anderson. Harvest Of Stars, 28-29.

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:

Sean M. Brooks said...

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