Tea or Books? #21: children narrators vs adult narrators, and Shakespeare comedies vs tragedies

  Shakespeare! That’s right, we’re getting very classy and/or GCSE English in our discussion of his comedies and tragedies – following a fairly haphazard chat about child narrators vs adult narrators. This is what happens when Rachel only tells me

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Shakespeare! That’s right, we’re getting very classy and/or GCSE English in our discussion of his comedies and tragedies – following a fairly haphazard chat about child narrators vs adult narrators. This is what happens when Rachel only tells me the topic we’re going to cover mere moments before we start recording.

We’re always on the look-out for suggestions for future episodes (srsly, we’re running out) – so let us know in the comments if you have any thoughts. You’ll definitely get a name check – unlike poor Faith, whose suggestion of child narrators we forget to properly appreciate. Thanks Faith! I thought Rachel probably hadn’t come up with the topic herself.

Here are the books and authors we talk about in this episode:

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

This is Sylvia by Sandy Wilson [NB not the title I said!]

The Old Wive’s Tale by Arnold Bennett

Literary Taste: How to Form It by Arnold Bennett

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Great Western Beach by Emma Smith

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend

Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson

Enid Blyton

William series by Richmal Crompton

Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Moliere

Othello by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare