Bless @internetarchive for saving the interesting website of the late #AnnSwinfen, to which she was adding until her sudden death in August 2018. Here's her introduction to #medieval#records & to the business of the #bookseller, supplying both affordable #textbooks to students & fine illustrated #manuscripts to wealthy patrons:
So Mastodon #Book folks. If knowing nothing about the person you had to recommend a book (or maybe one fiction and one nonfiction) what would you go with? #Books#Bookstodon@bookstodon@bookstodons
@Laking86@bookstodon@bookstodons sometimes when we're asked that in the bookshop we suggest maybe an anthology - short stories collection by different authors, or poety anthology? Means several different writers and styles, so hopefully some hit the mark!
What is Shakespeare's greatest play and why is it the Tempest?
(Video contains a reading of Prospero's "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" in a reconstruction of a fairly conservative form of early 17th century pronunciation. Note the low mid vowels of "dream" and "globe" and the long vowel in "little".)