Aw – get over it!
Today’s institution used to make hilarious tv ads when I was doing my undergraduate degree. Being ‘down south’ in New Zealand and in a very cold winter climate often put students off going here, so they launched the ‘Get over it’ campaign (perhaps some of it is on YouTube?).
The university whose research I am highlighting today is based in the South Island of New Zealand, it has a vast campus and specialises in the areas of Business, Medical Sciences, Arts and Sciences – they also contain one of New Zealand’s Medical schools and Dentistry schools. It is
The University of Otaaaagoooo (i.e Otago)
I actually had to wait for the article I was going to write about since it was coming from ‘elsewhere’ – although that doesn’t explain why it took me so long to write about it…. It is a nice short one and of a format that I personally am not used to seeing in academic databases. It is:
Tribble, E.B., (2008), Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, Shakespeare, 4(1), 99-101
The first thing that grabbed me was the author’s name – Tribble – how cool is that?! It engendered images of someone small, warm and fuzzy. My apologies E.B. Tribble, but you have an adorable surname:
A multitude of Tribbles
The second thing I noticed is that this article is a book review, now typically I mostly read book reviews on fiction novels not works of non-fiction so this was a bit new for me. Although perhaps I sometimes discount scientific book reviews as they are part of work…
Tribble mostly has praise for the author of the original work (Peter Holland) but I cannot comment on their critique as I have not read the work and I feel it may be a bit of a struggle for my dilettantic brain cells. While Shakespeare was more fun when I was younger, now it is a struggle to find the time to appreciate his prose and other ‘stuff’. My taste runs more to fantasy and sci fi these days, while non-fiction (outside of work) consists of auto- and biographies. My latest one is ‘Wrestling the Dragon’ by Gaby Naher about the next Dalai Lama – very interesting read!!
