tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7066245812816021600..comments2024-03-17T19:13:59.371+00:00Comments on Nigeness: 150 Today: E. NesbitNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-73205858190435710062008-08-19T16:45:00.000+01:002008-08-19T16:45:00.000+01:00Good question all, Anonymous - to which I'm afraid...Good question all, Anonymous - to which I'm afraid I have no answers. Nesbit certainly did - or so all the profiles say - write plays, but I can't find a trace of them. They might have been alternative versions of her short fantasy stories... And nobody seems to have made a Nesbit musical, which is surprising...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-31933101165648873752008-08-18T09:42:00.000+01:002008-08-18T09:42:00.000+01:00My child is being read and reread E. Nesbit for th...My child is being read and reread E. Nesbit for the past year. His school has a habit of putting on musicals each year. does anyone know of a musical play for children that has some literary and creative merit. I'm wondering (please no shuddering) whether anyone ever wrote a musical play based on E.Nesbits work also I knowshe wrote a number of plays for children but can't find out their names or how to get a hold of them. Any ideas?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-92201199684045999722008-08-15T18:53:00.000+01:002008-08-15T18:53:00.000+01:00PS - I'd have been on the gin too. And I posted on...PS - I'd have been on the gin too. And I posted on the wrong account. This is the new one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-6515953752210467712008-08-15T18:52:00.000+01:002008-08-15T18:52:00.000+01:00Thanks for this Nige - I grew up reading E Nesbit,...Thanks for this Nige - I grew up reading E Nesbit, raptly and omniverously. I have a terrible memory of getting halfway through Five Children and It when I was about 7 or 8, and having to give it back to the school library because it was so late I wasn't even allowed to renew it any more - we were doing it as bedtime chapters - and it was MONTHS before it came back in and I could find out what happened! The pain!<BR/><BR/>For some reason, though, you make me very sorry to say, I never really related to the Bastable Children. I regret that now, honestly. But I will look out her memoir because I am equally devoted to Ardizzone.Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-40991718806903090922008-08-15T13:55:00.000+01:002008-08-15T13:55:00.000+01:00Ah but Susan - the thing about Ring o Roses is not...Ah but Susan - the thing about Ring o Roses is not the lack of documentation so much as the fact that none of the details supposed to link it to the plague (an annular rash, sneezing etc) actually do relate to bubonic plague. Plus the song is closely related to others which are clearly to do with nothing but round games. And plus it's just so nasty and unnecessary! <BR/>But Nesbit's wonderful - you'll love Oswald B.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-90797774532778934942008-08-15T13:18:00.000+01:002008-08-15T13:18:00.000+01:00Wow. I have to read some of her work. I might have...Wow. I have to read some of her work. I might have encountered her reading about all the Shakespeare authenticity crap of the last decade. <BR/><BR/>Which, btw Nige, I wanted to chide you on. You had that post about false history, but your evidence for it was that "there was no documentation" for the ring-around-the-rosies poem in relation to The Plague. However, what documentation do we have of Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest writer ever in the English language? A handful of court documents: Bought a house, married, fathered a child, and signed his name different ways on different documents. But he's like a ghost, the only evidence of him, really, being the poems and plays he left behind.<BR/><BR/>Because no one can quite picture him, you have people like Nesbit thinking Bacon wrote his plays; or other people who think it was Edward DeVere. Bullshit. It was Will Shakespeare, but time has done away with the evidence, the documents. <BR/><BR/>Best example of how this happens is in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia." He gets it. We misinterpret the past because we never have more than a scrap or two of its artifacts to go on and we try to construct a plausible story around them. Well, it may be plausible to us, but it is never the truth. The real truth is lying back there in time and only the people involved *then* know what it is. And even some of them aren't sure.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to harangue you, but I've been bugged by that post you did on false narratives. I think there's a grain (or more) of truth in all of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-74517560022639354742008-08-15T12:16:00.000+01:002008-08-15T12:16:00.000+01:00I never knew the woman Nige. Swear by God.I never knew the woman Nige. Swear by God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com