#Eleanor Wyld

[peterviney1]

1984 - stage, review

Review of George Orwell’s 1984 in a stage adaptation by Ryan Craig (follow link to review). This opened at Bath Theatre Royal and will now go a nationwide tour. Directe by Lindsay Posner, with Mark Quartely as Winson Smith and Eleanor Wylde as Julia. Keith Allen plays O’Brien. The staging uses several more actors on the projected ‘Big Brother Is Watching You’ screen. The adaptation is clever- it…

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

In answer to the first question, yes. Not often, but absolutely yes. Christine de Pizan was patronized by multiple people, including Queen Isabeau of France and the dowager duchess of Anjou, Yolande of Aragon. Marie de France may have had connections to the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Hildegard of Bingen was constantly being bombarded with correspondence from surrounding personalities.

What doesn’t quite translate to Westeros from medieval Europe is that a lot of these women were affiliated with religious institutions. There was a rise in women mystics in the 14th and 15th centuries, and a number of these mystics were patronized by local--or more far-flung--royalty. St Bridget of Sweden, for instance, gained enough influence that the king and queen of England, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, named a daughter after her and endowed several Bridgettine convents. One of the lacunae in Martin’s worldbuilding is that the Faith of the Seven doesn’t have an equivalent set of cultural institutions that we hear much about. We know septas are engaged to teach/train young noblewomen, but we don’t get much info about motherhouses where septas are trained. How do they learn to read and write? Do they have literary traditions of their own? I doubt they always agree with whatever edicts are passed down from Oldtown.

My attitude to Fire & Blood is that it’s a book designed to be read against the grain. You’re meant to see that there are giant holes and elements missing that “Gyldayn” the fake-author either deliberately discounts for misogynist reasons or can’t fathom because of his own positionality as a maester of the Citadel. It’s a fantastic narrative device at least in part because it leaves so much room for interpretation. Just because the only tale mentioned in F&B is the Boccaccian story of Coryanne Wylde doesn’t mean there weren’t dozens if not hundreds of others in circulation. I totally believe that Alysanne patronized women artists and writers. She was, after all, the queen who introduced the idea of the woman’s court and made a point of talking to women across the Seven Kingdoms. What’s more, I believe other queens did the same, right down to Queen Margaery, who is described (albeit scornfully by Cersei) as being patron to specific merchants and artisans in King’s Landing.

So, if this is about what to do in fanworks, go for it! Imagine writers, artists, playwrights, dressmakers, hatmakers, all the different people who might make up a queen’s network, and imagine how many of them were probably women. Or gender-nonconforming, for that matter. These people have always existed, so there’s no reason why you can’t incorporate them into the world of F&B.

Did people patron female poets in mediveal or renaissance times? Also, could good queen Alyssanne have done that without it seeming super strange in westros

I'm not a big expert in medieval literature (that's @poorshadowspaintedqueens's field of expertise) but off the top of my head: not too strange (look up Christine de Pizan), but I'd say the most common occurrence would be for queens and noblewomen to be writers themselves; they were the ones with easier access to education and resources to cultivate their interests, and to the kind of social circles where they could share their works with other intellectuals. Ideally I think Alysanne should have left some poems and songs herself!

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Ok I have no clue what this short film is about but from the trailer I deduced that a dude (what is in his bag??? mysterious) seems to be meeting a girl, and they hang around somewhere and a relationship of sorts between the two start. Don't blame her, and if DW ever feels like following me around town he can feel free. Although it may not have ended well either judging by the ominous music. But on a serious note, women (and men) be safe out there.

[scousegrrl]

Frequencies (2013)

[jamesginortonblog]

The cast of Bonobo, behind the scenes (in March 2013). 1. Will Tudor, Eleanor Wyld, Milton Lopes, Patricia Potter, James Norton and Orlando Seale on the set (x) 2. Orlando Seale, Patricia Potter, James Norton, Josie Lawrence, executive producer Richard Holmes, Eleanor Wyld and Tessa Peake-Jones (x)

[jersonordavid]

365 Films Part 6: 328/365

Two Dosas

[oughttobeclowns]

News: Stars Announced For The Marlowe Sessions

News: Stars Announced For #TheMarloweSessions @themalthouseart Any #Marlowe fans out there? A cracking company here incl @Grumbletwat @1JackHolden @markriceoxley @chris_staines_ @forbesmasson @LostWaxProcess @RiadRichie @RoseUnwin @tarekmerchant @tudorsound

Stars including Elliot Cowan, Thalissa Teixera, Jack Holden and Adrian Schiller announced for The Marlowe Sessions, Re-imagining The Pioneer of Elizabethan Theatre This June, The Malthouse Theatre in Canterbury will bring together a cast of leading expert Elizabethan actors and some of the biggest names in British theatre for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the works of Christopher Marlowe.…

[321ocio]

Colección Amor: Pack de novela romántica contemporánea

#opinión Colección amor: pack de novela romántica contemporánea, incluye 8 libros de 8 autoras distintas #KindleUnlimited #kindle @Anyawylde @SusanHatler @IsabelKeats @ParvatiEnserie @mferrerpayeras

¡Última publicación del año! Esta colección nos llegó casi sin querer; a veces, en la cuenta del blog en alguna ocasión recibimos correos de algún autor pidiendo opinión: en este caso, una de las autoras que componen este pack de novela romántica, nos habló del libro y teniendo en cuenta que es un género que nos gusta aceptamos la lectura que debemos decir se ha retrasado un poco debido a la…

[globefan]

Merchant of Venice pics (c) Tristram Kenton

Eleanor Wyld as Jessica Daniel Bowerbank as Lorenzo and Eleanor Wyld as Jessica Michael Gould as Antonio and Adrian Schiller as Shylock and Michael Marcus as Bassanio Raymond Anum as Gratiano and Michael Marcus as Bassanio Adrian Schiller as Shylock Eleanor Wyld as Jessica and Daniel Bowerbank as Lorenzo Aaron Vodovoz as Launcelot Gobbo and Daniel Bowerbank as Lorenzo Michael Gould as Antonio and Adrian Schiller as Shylock Adrian Schiller as Shylock and Ben Caplan as Solanio

[antigonick]

Pauline! Do you have any modern gothic recs? I’ve checked through your tags and master post but a lot seem to be classics and I’m thinking of basing a paper I want to write about my favourite genre on how people interpret gothic today but the only ‘modern’ one I seem to be able to find is Helen Oyeyemi and Shadow of the Wind and so I’m curious if you’ve read any good ones

Sorry for the killjoy-teacher-mindset kicking in but I’ll start by saying this: don’t forget that looking for the material you’re basing your papers on is an integral part of your work, and part of the research, and part of the process, and that there’s a lot to infer from what you find or don’t find and why.

Anyway, a few things come to mind, though definitely don’t stop at this list (I’m a tourist)—historical fiction gothic, such as Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith and The Little Stranger (both amazing), Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale (good), V. C. Andrews’ Flowers in the Attic and the Dollanganger sequels, Sarah Perry’s Melmoth and Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions and Bone China, I think Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries and A. S. Byatt’s Possession could also fit the bill? or Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist. In terms of modern-setting gothic, I’m thinking Tiffany Reisz’s The Bourbon Thief and The Lucky Ones, Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (all of them Southern Gothic), Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock, Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, and I’m aware that Kate Morton has written a lot of best-selling gothic inspired novels too. As for classics but not-so-far-away books, my favourites include Daphné du Maurier’s Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn and of course Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

[justzawe]

Zawe and Lily both recently followed Eleanor Wyld🤷🏻‍♀️

Meh

[holliehock]

“Why This is Hell, Nor am I Out of it”

-Doctor Faustus.

Doctor Faustus is probably the most radical Renaissance play I have studied. Written by Christopher Marlowe, the only confirmed Atheist of the time and suspected member of the secret service, it's no wonder. The Swan Theatre's production is the first I've ever seen of this play, after studying it this year in my Shakespeare and His Contemporaries unit.

The RSC used fascinating strategies in this play, from the moment the lights went down. Both Sandy Greirson and Oliver Ryan appearing onstage, ready to play the role of Faustus. In unison, they light matches, and whoever's match goes out first plays Faustus that evening. It's purely down to chance.

It is made blatantly clear in this production that Faustus and Mephistophilis are two sides of the same coin. From their attire - Faustus in black and Mephistophilis in white, to the ending when Faustus stabs his demon but in doing so, kills himself.

Ryan's portrayal of Mephistophilis was gripping. As soon as he entered the stage, you were forced to look in his direction, study his every move. However, the characterisation of the demon was somewhat detracted by his voice. Assuming that it was put on for the character, it made the demon seem 'other-worldly', but seemed very forced and uncomfortable, as well as making some lines difficult to hear.

The carnivalesque of the production was simply breathtaking. The special effects and dynamic music and dance made the show as overwhelming as if you were playing Faustus. The casting choice of Lucifer as Eleanor Wyld sent the audience mad. Seeing the most sinful and devious character in religion strut onstage in a pair of stilettos was completely unexpected. But Wyld owned the stage, being as dominant and fearsome as any male counterpart could have been. She fulfilled the role fantastically, making it one of the highlights of the night.

And of course, there's the doctor. Played by Sandy Grierson on the night that I attended, he lived up to every expectation I could have of the character. Grierson captured Faustus' intellect and egotism with skill and polish. He also managed to depict Faustus' inner conflict with much more emotion and passion than could ever come across in the text, supported by the staging. The most haunting example when Faustus slits his own wrist to sign Lucifer's contract.

Doctor Faustus is running at the Swan Theatre until October 1st. To get your tickets, visit their website or phone 01789 403493. People between the ages of 16 and 25 can also buy £5 tickets through the RSC Key.

[shanreads]

All the books I read this year 📖

The Found and the Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Little Book of Hygge by  Meik Wiking

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Mort by Terry Pratchett

Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings by Jane Austen

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski

The Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas

Area X by Jeff Vandermeer

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Pap Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Muse by Jessie Burton

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

Caravalby Stephanie Garber

 Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Night by Ellie Wiesel

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

The Bear and the Nightingale by  Katherine Arden

Brunelleschi's Dome  by Ross King

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson

The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

Its been a pretty good reading year. I almost doubled my goal of reading 30 books and found quite a few new favorites! Thank you all for following along with me :)

[thestageyshelf]

SOLD 🎭 Don Quixote @ Garrick Theatre 2018 (#185)

Title: Don Quixote

Venue: Garrick Theatre

Year: 2018

Condition: Good condition

Author: Adapted by James Fenton

Director: Angus Jackson

Cast: David Threlfall, Rufus Hound, Will Bliss, Nicholas Lumley, Raphael Bushay, Natasha Magigi, Farrell Cox, Tom McCall, John Cummins, Joshua McCord, Richard Dempsey, Bathsheba Piepe, Ruth Everett, Rosa Robson, Gabriel Fleary, Timothy Speyer, Richard Leeming, Eleanor Wyld

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[alteredphoenix]

A collage of some of the leading ladies in a few of my stories I’ve drawn throughout the years. From left to right, earliest to newest:

- Ladio, a husky/shepherd mix, who is apprenticing under her adopted mother to be a field medic and eventually accrues an internship at a neighboring country’s military base. She is friends with Shadow Fox. She is one of the few husky anthros that lives in her community, and a rarity as one who is also of mixed heritage. Although she is still a teenager and she is still figuring out what she wants out of life, she enjoys her studies and hopes that one day it will lead her to finding out who her birth parents were and if the fabled Deep Six City, a community comprised solely of huskies, actually exists.

(Notes: Notably the first anthro I’ve made. She’s kind of flip-flopped between being influenced from Star Fox Adventures, Sonic, and - even I’m shocked when I look back on it - Dragon Ball Z (to be fair, it was one of my first anime, back in the day. But since Ladio’s universe is a hot pot of anthros, reptilians, humans, robots and cyborgs, fairies, and aliens and all manner of creatures, I shouldn’t be so surprised.)

- Jinkei Haotome, a high school student who can wield phoenix fire in an urban fantasy world that leans hard into the concept of Guardians of the Four Directions from Asian mythology. Her favorite subject is mathematical topology. Is not Japanese; it’s just a cool name I came up with in middle school, so it’s stuck with her ever since. 

(Notes: She’s pretty much a more hot-blooded, foul-mouthed Kusanagi Kyo from King of Fighters but she takes her academic studies more seriously...somewhat. AFAIK I never made a K’ or Iori expy to compliment her; a shame, really. She did start out as a KoF/SNK OC mentoring under the Sakazaki Team, though.)

- Rita Lusaloff, a girl trained in the swordsmanship and born with a left-handed astrolabe, a rare birthright that is only found in left-handed people that are able to use all magical elements. When she was nine her parents gave her up to be fostered by an elf to be cared for and trained in astral arts due to prejudice to those that bear the mark of the astrolabe.

(Notes: She has some heavy Tales of series influence, mainly Abyss...but between her and Luke, she’s much more grounded and is her age (19). There is also some Code Geass inspiration, but I don’t see Rita as someone who would ever be as morally grey as Lelouch is. If I had to describe what Rita’s personality is most like among the Tales of protagonists, I would say Lloyd - but with more education, but both share the same level of idealism.)

- Maaya Lawson (biologically born Maaya Endomere), the leading military commander, or Lord-General, in the country she trained and served - but not of her own will; prior to this, she was a law enforcement officer. She is the youngest person to hold the title, with the misfortune - or, as some would say, good fortune - of being the first human lycan to sit in office; because of ongoing hostilities between humans and non-humans, she is regarded with hostility by most of the public and as a result has only very few friends. She loves wolfdogs and has a pack that is bred for psychic attunement, all of whom serve as emotional support and jogging partners. The white-blue portion of her hair and sharp blue eyes indicates her lycanthropic nature.

(Notes: She surprisingly has origins rooted in Shakespearean tragedy, of all things, but I wanted to try my own take on the tried-and-true anime harems but with an absolutely gay as fuck, romantic as fuck, and eventually down to fuck protagonist who’s buff as fuck and surrounded by hot as fuck women, so I ditched the Shakespeare concept because yuri is better.)

-  Airi Lacard (transliterated surname), a young woman who lives alongside wind elementals in her region who take on the form of bald eagles. She has an interest in demonology, cultural history, and theatrical arts. Her destiny is somehow tied to that of the Demon King, Lord Tel Ossei Al-Sharaad, even though he is regarded as a being that is not real and only exists in fiction. As a member born into the animistic culture of the Houses of the Wylde, everyone is given both a true name and a use-name. However, ‘Airi’ is usually reserved as a true-name, and only for those women in positions of power. Airi was born with this name and she would later accept it as her use-name, so technically it is both her true-name and use-name; however, it is said she has a true-name she gave herself, but no one knows what it is, much to the chagrin of her elders, clanmates, and even siblings. For all her love and fondness of birds, she has a wary distrust of great horned owls, the bald eagle’s greatest rival.

(Notes: Airi’s origins have an interesting development. She started out as an Eleanor Hume expy for a Tales of Berseria/Zestiria fanfic that never took off, described as someone who was a ‘hero who would eventually be forgotten by history and known only in folklore’. Then she became her own person but her story was going to be my attempt at a children’s tale...until I made the stunning realization that I needed Airi to suffer immensely, preferably with existential angst, in order to grow, so that idea got quickly nixed. Then the previous iteration ended up making her either die and have paradise eternal throughout all realities, become forgotten by time again or a much happier Highlander expy who would evoke the Ascended To A Higher Plane of Existence, and I hated all of those for depressing me even if the four of the six endings I wrote for her were mostly bittersweet. Thus began my journey to give Airi a much better, fulfilling outcome, which began with watching bald eagle cams back in 2019, which is where I got the idea of attributing them to her. At the same time, I was obsessively putting the entirety of Kikuchi Momoko’s discography on repeat as I dabbled with the worldbuilding in notebooks, so Airi has quite a distinct mid-1980′s to early 1990′s feel that emulates the women of that time period: elegant and mature and kind with a hint of mischievous mirth lurking underneath. Magic Knight Rayearth should also be thanked for inspiration regarding the development of Airi’s family, which is where the idea of her having three older brothers comes from. Hikaru herself also helped flesh Airi out, but whereas Hikaru is very energetic Airi is ten years older and is more composed - at least until there are bald eagles in the picture. Sadly the mecha portions of MKR didn’t carry over to Airi’s story, although I do wish to find a way to include them in some capacity even if the story itself is not mecha. Although the angst stays; you must understand that I can’t just make things a cakewalk for my girls. That’s too easy!)

[hotniatheron]

Problem: Cause those Nassau pirates are a goddamn problem

i. problem - natalia kills (eleanor guthrie) // ii. clique -  kanye west (charles vane) // iii. i’m really really hot - missy elliot (max) // iv. don’t get in my way - zack hemsey (captain flint) // v. breakin’ dawn - brother ali (long john silver) // vi. wut - le1f (billy bones) // vii. a tribe called red - angel haze (madi) // viii. no wyld - odyssey (james mcgraw) // ix. 212 - azealia banks (anne bonny) // x. role model - freesol (jack rackham) //  xi. matangi - m.i.a. (miranda barlow) //