The Duchess of Malfi: BBC Four.

[Workingman]

It is a play by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, John Webster, and as a technophile I was intrigued by the production only.

It was costume drama being performed in a copy of a 1604 theatre, but only under candlelight, as it would have been at the time, and I wanted to see what it would have been like to be there. Ten minutes should have been enough.....

But I got hooked. I just had to watch the whole damned thing from 8 pm to 10:30 pm.

I was sober, throughout, my Lords and Ladies, and my heart of alabaster for such frivolous doings was broken in a thousand pieces. I beseech thee, view it forthwith, 'T will be on yon iParchment. Let thy rodent lead thee there.