Knowledge Commons | Duncan Lees | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/duncanl/activity/ Activity feed for Duncan Lees. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:06:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8b3df326ab6ac7ee1a2e74dd63bdfb68 Duncan Lees replied to the topic Act Two in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-two/#post-30872 Fri, 01 May 2020 15:18:56 -0400 I haven't quite finished all of Act 2, but, David, thanks for that note about the Roy Hudd connection. That's the edition of The Birth of Merlin that the library at Warwick has, and until I saw your comment I was a bit confused by the reference in the catalogue to it containing a chapter by Roy Hudd... I was thinking "surely not that Roy Hudd?!",…[Read more]

]]> b721ac93155a830222873b653f0b30b0 Duncan Lees replied to the topic Act One in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/act-one/page/2/#post-30703 Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:13:58 -0400 Coming to this late, as juggling work and the great homeschooling experiment has been really challenging this week... but very glad that I stole a bit of time for this in the end!

The wonderful weirdness obviously starts with the dramatis personae as several people have already noted. I love the fact that we have such straightforward descriptions…[Read more]

]]> ef6457f1b0e9c13d3fe701b2e582e2f1 Duncan Lees replied to the topic Welcome! Introduce Yourself in the discussion The Birth of Merlin Reading Group https://hcommons.org/groups/the-birth-of-merlin-reading-group/forum/topic/welcome-introduce-yourself/#post-30309 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:47:06 -0400 Hi everyone, I'm Duncan, and I'm currently in the final(ish) year of a PhD in Education and Applied Linguistics, doing a case study on teaching Shakespeare workshops at a Chinese university using ethnomethodology (the other EM I'm interested in). It was a surprise to find myself in the social sciences, as for many years I taught film studies,…[Read more]

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