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1. If Dwarves in Scandinavian mythology reproduce by building more dwarves using their crafting skills, does that make them actually a race of self-replicating androids? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them portrayed that way, but it’d be cool.
2. Re-read King Lear, because it’s a favourite of mine and I hadn’t looked at it in a while. The Earl of Kent really is the designated driver of that story, isn’t he? I mean there are scenes where literally everyone else on stage is screaming gibberish around him, and there’s Kent, having an equally bad day but having to go through it sane and sober. At least he gets to take out his frustrations on Oswald; though rereading that scene, and Kent’s subsequent account of what happened, makes me think any director staging this should precede II, ii with a wordless scene of Oswald’s message from Goneril being welcomed and Kent’s message from Lear ignored, so we can see just why Kent loses his temper afterwards.
2. Re-read King Lear, because it’s a favourite of mine and I hadn’t looked at it in a while. The Earl of Kent really is the designated driver of that story, isn’t he? I mean there are scenes where literally everyone else on stage is screaming gibberish around him, and there’s Kent, having an equally bad day but having to go through it sane and sober. At least he gets to take out his frustrations on Oswald; though rereading that scene, and Kent’s subsequent account of what happened, makes me think any director staging this should precede II, ii with a wordless scene of Oswald’s message from Goneril being welcomed and Kent’s message from Lear ignored, so we can see just why Kent loses his temper afterwards.
