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Fanfic Recs
Apr. 26th, 2024 10:48 amA couple of days ago I read a_t_rain’s lovely Will Shakespeare & Ben Jonson fic Bird-Song, and commented that I really loved the behind-the-scenes feel of Will and his fellow playwrights and actors (and their families) bouncing ideas off each other and arguing about what will work best in performance, like a 20th-century rock band. I assumed the last comparison was my imagination acting up, but it turns out that was part of the inspiration. Until two days ago I hadn’t heard of two-thirds of these people, and now I love all of them.
Anyway, I found out the following days there’s a whole series— so far I especially like Nameless, (helps if you’ve seen or at least heard of A Yorkshire Tragedy) and Stripped (in which the King’s Men feel a bit Led Zeppelin to me, what with the complicated grief and numinous stuff happening on a rainy trip to Wales).
In a slightly different genre: Couture and the Theater. Following the events of Top Hat (1935), Horace Hardwicke and Beddini find themselves in conversation. Madge figures it out (and approves) before they do.
Anyway, I found out the following days there’s a whole series— so far I especially like Nameless, (helps if you’ve seen or at least heard of A Yorkshire Tragedy) and Stripped (in which the King’s Men feel a bit Led Zeppelin to me, what with the complicated grief and numinous stuff happening on a rainy trip to Wales).
In a slightly different genre: Couture and the Theater. Following the events of Top Hat (1935), Horace Hardwicke and Beddini find themselves in conversation. Madge figures it out (and approves) before they do.
