Thursday, September 29, 2011
Chasuble
After some refreshment & deep thought, I now wonder whether the parson earnest, one Chasuble, was not a reference to the Casaubon of Middlemarch, from some 20 or 30 years previous. An older cleric of prosing inclination who was not immune to the charms of the fair sex. But a kindly reference; at the Rose at least there was no malice. Being an educated but bachelor country parson a hundred or more years ago was like that.
Also worth mentioning that the two male leads made the most of their smoking privileges, to the point where a warning notice about smoke & haze had been posted at the entrance to the auditorium. A little puff for freedom.
# posted by Jim @ 1:00 PM 
