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No. Read it again - it was 10 plays (largely revision) in 20 days and 22 was the score over the whole 2-year Shakespeare course.

Just before my finals at Leeds University I had a binge on Shakespeare. For 20 days I stuck to this pattern - day 1: read Shakespeare play; day 2: read critical commentaries on said play, and so on. After 3 weeks I felt more into the bard than ever before or since. The course expected us to read all the plays; I managed 22 which proved to be quite adequate. I've always been keener on Shakespeare on the page than in performance - don't forget the Sonnets! If performed, my preference is for the bare, Elizabethan-type stage. I can't stand these modern productions with actors as Boy Scouts or SS officers!

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Plenty left, MG. PM me with an email address and I'll attach the list (in 9 sections.)

Well, the seasons don't get much of a chance to penetrate into this part of the world ... Seriously though, I commuted 22 miles to work each day, most of it by train and some of it through countryside, so I was always aware of the seasons.

Nice! Particularly like the one with the furrows.

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Try the movie!

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When I saw the Christian McBride Trio a couple of months ago at a Manchester club, they received warm applause when they played a couple of unannounced Michael Jackson tunes. I didn't know these and only found out what they were when McBryde later justified their inclusion. Perhaps he's looking for new standards. Incidentally, Charlie Parker quotations elsewhere in the program went unnoticed by the audience. The world moves on ....

My friend since college days, Danny Padmore, was on bass on One Way, in the distinguished company of Jon Eardley and John Bunch.

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As MG wisely opines,"Bollox"!

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No political posts, please!