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Through the glass darkly
In Act One of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, a play, so legend has it, Queen Elizabeth personally commissioned because she so enjoyed the character of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, 1& 2, we meet Master Abraham Slender who has come to court the young and lovely Mistress Anne Page. As he hesitates at the door, he laments, “I had rather than 40 shillings I had my book of Songs and Sonnets here.” The joke here, for Shakespeare’s audience, concerns the name of the book Slender mentions – Songs and Sonnets.
Lunchtime poetry reading
THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre presents a lunchtime reading by poets Fiona Clark Echlin and Mary Ellen Fean this afternoon at 1pm at the Galway City Museum.
