Coriolanus

On Thursday I went to see Coriolanus with National Theatre Live. It's one of my favourite Shakespeare plays - I read Dorothy L. Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon as a teenager, and there's a bit where Lord Peter calls Harriet his 'gracious silence', and they have a brief conversation about Coriolanus. I was curious enough to go and read the play, and discovered that it's about a man who hates everybody, and being a misanthropic teenager myself, I felt this was quite the right thing to do and that he was My Kind of People.

Tom Hiddleston, unfortunately, is not My Kind of People. ( Read more... )