tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post325280749481062362..comments2024-03-27T21:39:23.192-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Facts That Aren't (Dorothy Sayers)John D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-57678261646685087612017-06-28T16:13:14.129-07:002017-06-28T16:13:14.129-07:00Dear David:
Yes, I'd completely forgotten abo...Dear David:<br /><br />Yes, I'd completely forgotten about the play, and its co-authorship, until Jeff mentioned them, though in fact when I read it years ago I preferred the play to the subsequent novel (not her best). <br /><br />But I was trying to keep my post relatively focused, for once, and so steered away from comments on that, on this being the one Sayers novel we know Tolkien didn't read, on the dust-up between the plays' editor, Alzina Stone Dale, and Sayers scholar Barbara Reynolds, et al.<br /><br />Sorry to have missed the MythSoc performance of LOVE ALL; sounds fun.<br /><br />--JDR<br />--current reading: OPERATION CHAOS by Poul Anderson<br />John D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-40969049752853421202017-06-28T05:56:26.540-07:002017-06-28T05:56:26.540-07:00A more serious error, reported by your friend Jeff...A more serious error, reported by your friend Jeff, is the program book's neglecting to credit Sayers' co-author, Muriel St. Clair Byrne.<br /><br />Calling Sayers an Inkling is a common enough error that a casual example is not one I'd concern myself with. I should point out, as your friend Jeff mentions the Wade Center, that of the 7 authors collected there, 4 are considered Inklings, 2 had nothing to do with them personally (they're there for intellectual compatibility and inspiration), and Sayers was not an Inkling but affiliated insofar as she was a friend of Lewis and Williams.<br /><br />I've never seen the play of Busman's Honeymoon, though I would have happily attended this were I in the area. I've read the published text, which is shared in a volume with a (single-author) Sayers romantic comedy called Love All, which we once did in a readers' theatre version at Mythcon (in a text abridged by Sherwood Smith - it needed the abridgment, but was delightful in its shortened form).David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.com