Ann Macbeth - Once Upon a Time, circa 1902.
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DESIGN HISTORY: updates.
I am in the process of updating and reissuing my design history books. Just reissued is: Ann Macbeth and the Glasgow Embroidery Style.
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25 September is the birthday of Scottish artist Anne Macbeth (1875 - 1948).
At the end of the 19th century, she was a member of the 'Glasgow School', a group of artists centred on the Glasgow School of Art, who switched from paintbrush to needle and thread and embroidered pictures.
Later, as head of the embroidery department at the Glasgow School of Art, she also trained younger artists.
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i have a series of Shakespeare's women
here are Lady M, Ophelia and Queen Anne from Richard III
i think the next one will be "put on my robe, give me my crown, i have immortal longings in me"
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Louis in Interview:
I think I must have seen Macbeth with him fifteen times. We went to every performance, even those by amateurs, and Lestat would stride home afterwards, repeating the lines to me and even shouting out to passers-by with an outstretched finger, ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!’ until they skirted him as if he were drunk.
Lestat to Roget on visiting Gabrielle in The Vampire Lestat:
“Tomorrow…tomorrow night,” I think I stammered. That line came back to me from Shakespeare’s Macbeth… “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…”
“Monsieur, you don’t understand! There will be no trips to Italy for your mother. She has made her last journey in coming here to see you.”
Lestat to Louis in the reunion in TVL:
“There’ll be time after,” I answered. “ ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.’ Nothing is going to happen. You’ll see.”
The prospect of a creeping tomorrow is so joyful to Lestat, ever the optimist. He has clung on to the idea of endless renewal and hope sprung eternal as his raison d'être. Lestat stamps his foot and says life’s no petty pace, no poor player, but is it signifying nothing? Perhaps.
The quote is kind of cliche, of course, and there are more erudite references that Anne Rice could have made that don’t require a transformation of the reading of the quote from negative to positive. But maybe it’s actually appropriate to show how Lestat is just this kind of kitschy and cliche person, taking the surface meaning and discarding the rest at his convenience.
When I was in middle school we read that horrible poem “Out, out-” and I recognized the quote in the title after thinking probably the hardest I’ve ever thought then or thence (seriously I was wracking my brains in class trying to place the quote like 🤔) and I still feel slightly traumatized by that poem. But I knew the quote because of Lestat.
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