Ann Wood Theatre

This is Ann Wood's theatre diorama. It repays close examination, in the way that small things do. She makes wonderful birds which are available in her shop, and ships that one can only dream of sailing away on.

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

I could a tale to the unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,

Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

And each particular hair to stand on end,

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine...

Hamlet's father's ghost to Hamlet.

Hamlet resumes next Monday with the contemplation of time out of joint. The rest of the week will be devoted to News of the Tiny - my email is to the right if you have any for me.

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

I would not in plain terms from this time forth

Have you so slander any moment leisure

As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.

Look to't I charge you; come your ways.

       Polonius to Ophelia

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2

O that this too too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,

...That it should come to this--

But two months dead, nay not so much, not two --

So exellent a King, that was to his

Hyperion to a satyr...

Father

Full fathom deep thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;

Those are pearls that were his eyes:

Nothing of him that doth fade,

But doth suffer a sea change,

Into something rish and strange.

     - Shakespeare,The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

Rose

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet."

        - Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2

How much examination can beauty withstand?

Music

"If music be the food of love, play on, give me an excess of it: that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. "

Shakespeare,Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1

File under "does that work?"