HASTAC Commons | Anna Kamaralli | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/kamaralli/activity/ Activity feed for Anna Kamaralli. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:42:23 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5d12280882de544b8bbb622991f38501 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Wrap Up Thread in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/wrap-up-thread/#post-31806 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:33:38 +0000 Thank you so much for organising this, Nora. Getting other people’s takes definitely showed me things that I would not have picked up reading on my own.

My final thought is probably that I’m surprised at the 1622 date for this play. Its overall ‘feel’ for me is that it owes heaps to medieval morality plays, and if I’d read it without knowing I…[Read more]

]]> 0 e711edd9c454f13ccfb47451dcdd8796 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act Five in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-five/#post-31455 Thu, 21 May 2020 00:06:22 +0000 Like most others here, I’m picking up this final act as a fantasy of purging the country of women. Donobert’s opportunity to bequeath his estate to two men, now his daughters have removed themselves from the picture. The installation of Uther as king and foretelling of his having a son without any mention, unless I missed it somewhere, of Igraine.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f67c104a3e3061d4dfb92020c661214 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act Four in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-four/#post-31361 Mon, 18 May 2020 00:39:52 +0000 Alas, some aspect of my system absolutely refuses to let me post a picture, so instead of a witty, thowaway visual I am forced to included a laboured attachment, that hopefully is still worth a laugh.

I am completely staggered in this play by how they chose to use a pair of nubile ingénues. I kept expecting them to turn up again and have some…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5f28c6d5a52cb6e4f12bf9801338048 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act Four in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-four/#post-31204 Tue, 12 May 2020 01:24:21 +0000 Luddite alert: I don’t have a button for inserting an image. How can I insert an image? It must be possible because Pete just did it above.

]]> 0 bb28b4044ba7846394ecf1174ef58639 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act Three in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-three/#post-31086 Fri, 08 May 2020 01:58:39 +0000 Still baffled by what a decent chap the Devil appears to be.

]]> 0 f854a8cae81304c576d72c3f1f4eb5f3 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act Two in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-two/#post-31010 Tue, 05 May 2020 06:51:18 +0000 Since there’s been some discussion of Webster and his potential influence, Edol reminded me of Webster’s Sir Thomas Wyatt (play and character). Wyatt “would run through fire” for the sake of the true Queen, but transforms into fury and martial resolve when she follows her hormones (like Aurelius) and marries a Spaniard. I haven’t made a lines…[Read more]

]]> 0 4934db69aae3809316d384961bc0b8c8 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/welcome-introduce-yourself/page/2/#post-31007 Tue, 05 May 2020 03:39:04 +0000 I’m sorry, I broke one of the three cardinal rules and forgot to introduce myself before we got started. I’m Anna, and I want to expand my reading of Early Modern plays by playwrights other than Shakespeare. This one sounds gloriously outré enough to shoot right up to the top of the list. I’m in Sydney, so will probably post at odd times,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c874a29e5a1fd257c4b077d9ab57ae0 Anna Kamaralli replied to the topic Act One in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-one/#post-30481 Mon, 20 Apr 2020 05:45:15 +0000 I’ve never read this, and so am finding it great fun (and surprisingly rare) to read an EM play without knowing in advance what is going to happen.

I love that Modestia is given a soliloquy, and a deeply philosophical reason, to desire a spiritual path for herself, in preference to marriage.

That is one hell of an entrance Artesia gets, and I…[Read more]

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