Catrin Griffiths
I write about law and business for my day job, but in my spare time I’m studying for a PhD in 1650s culture, so this blog is a way of thinking out loud as I negotiate my way through the Interregnum. It won’t all be early modern musings, as I’ll be writing a lot about current London theatre too.
Parthenissa, by the way, is the eponymous heroine of a 1651 heroic romance by Roger Boyle.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
seventeenth century theatre romance art Shakespeare National Theatre Park Theatre poetry Books Donmar Warehouse
Why The Guardian asked the wrong question about classical music
19 July 2019
What is classical music for? That was the question posed by The Guardian in a hostile op-ed that framed orchestral music as an agent of exclusion (rough sleepers are blasted with Vivaldi)...
London stage, 2016: a year for the women
1 January 2017
Best female performances: Jade Anouka, Adelayo Adedayo It’s been a rich year for female roles. Denise Gough in People Places and Things (Wyndham, transferred from the National...
French dystopias: Soumission, Houellebecq /2084, Sansal /Gratis, Herzog
28 February 2016
To judge by the publishers’ lists, dystopias are big literary business in France right now. Three 2015 releases propose different views of a political future and the role of memory....
Art in the City: Piercing the Veil, Simmons & Simmons
13 February 2016
Above the door to this City law firm’s auditorium hangs a pink neon sign: ‘Trust Me’. It’s far from your average bit of corporate art; it’s a Tracey Emin...