"My intention," Mitchell writes, "has been to recreate the ancient epic as a contemporary poem".
"My intention throughout," Mitchell writes, "has been to recreate the ancient epic as a contemporary poem in the parallel universe of the English language".
The trend among younger memoirists (and pseudo-memoirists) has been to recreate a specific trauma or traumatic period in the immediacy of its experiencing.
Her hope had been to recreate Project Solarium, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower began in the sunroom of the White House in 1953, to come up with new ways of thinking about the nuclear threats then facing the country.
Since McCreesh's intention had been to recreate the world of the 18th-century big band, the Prom which followed was perfectly apropos, with Stan Tracey and his orchestra giving us his 1986 classic, Genesis.
That's appropriate, since the mission of the 16-year-old Shakespeare's Globe (where Mr. Rylance was the original artistic director) has been to recreate the experience provided by its namesake, which existed back in the Elizabethan heyday of you-know-who.
