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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Another fun outing with the group from St. Mary's. =) ( ) It is a holiday for historians (never to be called time travelers). Everybody in the pod for a performance of Hamlet at the Globe starring Richard Burbage, with the part of the ghost played by the author. Who would have guessed there would be a riot and a fire? It is too bad there is not much of a market for short stories. Taylor’s humor works well in a hit-quick form. Here, for example, is Max introducing her baby to the History Department: “All right, people. This is a baby. A small human. His name is Matthew and he is not to be floated across the lake in a Moses basket just to see if it could have happened. Nor is he to be stuffed into a warming pan and smuggled into someone’s bed. He is not to be dangled off a balcony and presented to the Welsh people as a non-English-speaking Prince of Wales.” She goes on to explain to the Research Department that the baby may not be plopped down as a paperweight, employed to block inconvenient drafts, or used as ballast. It is the St. Mary’s version of a please-don’t-eat-the-daisies speech, and if that reference is too old for you, look up Jean Kerr on Wikipedia or Doris Day on IMDB. Let’s give this one four Dramatis Thingummies. St Mary's is off to spend a long overdue day out in Elizabethan London, to watch a performance of Hamlet at the Globe theatre, with Shakespeare himself appearing as the Ghost. However, as this is St Mary's, everything that can go wrong does; Dr Bairstow is not amused. On the plus side, at least the recorders' batteries didn't fail. While there is a certain predictability to the novels and short stories – not for nothing does the cover of each book proclaim the team of St Mary's to be disaster magnets – it's always great fun to discover the details, which are entirely unpredictable. And you pick up a snippet or two of history too – what's not to love? inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML: Everyone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. The trip is to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course. With Dr Bairstow and Mrs Mack turning a simple visit to a street market into a public brawl, Professor Rapson inadvertently stowing away on a vessel bound for the New World, and Shakespeare himself going up in flames, it would seem that Max, of all people, is the only one actually completing the assignment. .Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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