home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!sot-ecs!ajl
- From: ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Lewis AJ)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
- Message-ID: <13639@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:27:27 GMT
- References: <leo.721570582@galaxy> <1992Nov13.174233.17868@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Lines: 27
- Nntp-Posting-Host: wynkyn
-
- In <1992Nov13.174233.17868@eng.cam.ac.uk> pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (Philippa Hogben) writes:
-
- >In article 721570582@galaxy, leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:
- >>ST102315@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
- >>
- >>It's an older, Greek tragedy (that Shakespeare couldn't come up with an
- >>original plot idea if his life depended on it :-).
- >>
- >>The actual names of the protagonists escape me at the moment (Thisbe and
- >>Pallisander, I think),
-
- >I _think_ that should be Lysander.
- Pyramus, actually. Lysander was one of the Midsummer Night's Dream
- protaganists.
-
- >I did the Midsummernight-mare for my Eng Lit 'O' level. The mechanicals'
- >version of the Thisbe/Lysander legend is rather amusing.
-
- Try reading the Neil Gaiman version, as seen in the Sandman. Superb.
-
- Andy
-
- --
- Andy Lewis (ajl@ecs.soton.ac.uk) |
- Department of Electronics | A juggler without a theme...
- and Computer Science |
- University of Southampton |
-