{"id":34347,"date":"2025-02-07T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34347"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:39:58","slug":"the-cheeses-of-craggy-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34347","title":{"rendered":"The Cheeses of Craggy Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Church of England is soliciting the public’s input for the next Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s only one candidate, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dermot
Think fast, Father Ted!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Father Ted Crilly is a Roman Catholic<\/i> priest, but if called upon, I am sure he would embrace the Church of England faster than Father Jack can move when he sights an unattended bottle of whiskey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s unfortunate that Dermot Morgan died twenty-seven years ago, the day after filming on the last episode of Father Ted<\/i>. And it’s also unfortunate that Father Ted<\/i> co-creator Graham Linehan is a transphobic shithead. Because I can see<\/i> how the episode would go. Or at least start<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted, in the Parochial House, reading Hadrian the Seventh<\/a><\/i>, by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not really sure where it goes from there. Ted, being Ted, gets in way<\/i> over his head. Does something hugely unpopular. Causes an international incident. Barely survives a near-death experience. Is either forced out or resigns, then goes back to the Catholic Church and the Parochial House like nothing had ever happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The William Shakespeare’s Star Wars<\/i> plays are coming back into print later this year. (They’re in the forthcoming March issue of PREVIEWS<\/i><\/b>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This got me to thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare’s history sequence of eight plays from Richard II<\/i> to Richard III<\/i> is sometimes called “the Henriad.” (The intervening plays, for the record, are Henry IV<\/i> 1 and 2, Henry V<\/i>, and Henry VI<\/i> 1, 2, and 3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would Shakespeare’s Star Wars<\/i> sequence of nine plays, from The Phantom of Menace<\/i> to The Merry Rise of Skywalker<\/i>, be termed “the Vaderiad”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And might another Jacobean playwright have written a play of his own inspired by the sequence? Perhaps Thomas Middleton and The First Roguers’ Tragedie<\/i>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Aldi opened up the street from me, about a mile and a half, last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went this afternoon for the first time, after finishing today’s big project at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought about thirty dollars of random cheeses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll have to return in a few weeks and see if they have the Irish whiskey and stout infused cheddars that they often carry around St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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