Sam Lien
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Jasper Fforde:
In your opinions, how are family relationships portrayed differently in King Lear and Hamlet? Thank you!
Jasper Fforde
I haven't seen Lear in years, about time for a refresher. I can't recall to be honest, but it might be fair to say that they are somewhat dysfunctional - and open to interpretation. When Hamlet kisses his mother Gertrude it was, for many years just a peck goodnight. Just recently it has been getting longer, which does tend to add a new twist to their relationship. And I think that's whats so particularly wonderful about the plays. That they are not fixed, and can subtly change as the mood of society takes them. The paucity of stage directions are actually, I think, a positive thing..
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Harriette Gibbard Thompson
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Jasper Fforde:
You are, hands down, my favourite author! I attended one of your lectures many, many years ago and you signed a ticket for me that I treasured and used as a book mark for many years.....until I moved continents and lost it! If I send you a new bookmark, would you be able to sign it for me? (PS I grew up not far from Elan Valley and I never found a Shakespeare clone, much to my chagrin!)
Catie Osborn
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Jasper Fforde:
Hi Mr. Fforde-- First, I want you to know that your Thursday Next books were, and still continue to be, a source of absolute wonder and joy in my life. I'm currently getting a double Master's degrees in Shakespeare, so this is a delight for me. So. My question: If you could change one major thing from any Shakespeare play of your choice, what would you change and how would it affect the rest of the narrative?
Chris Kridler
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Jasper Fforde:
Like many of your questioners, I'm a total fangirl of your work, especially the Thursday Next series, and I dream of an afterlife that's much like the Bookworld, where I can visit my own stories even if no one has read them. :) Have you imagined lives for your own unpublished work (if you have any such phenomena in your desk drawer)? Do you have a manuscript you love that has yet to find publication?
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