{"id":19908,"date":"2020-07-15T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:57:03","slug":"peakes-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/15\/peakes-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Peake’s Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having recently watched Jan \u0160vankmajer’s self-reflexive film of the Capek Brothers’ Insect Play<\/em> I was intrigued by a mention in one of the Mervyn Peake biographies that Peake had created costumes for two stagings of the play in London in 1932 and 1936. “Mr Mervyn Peake\u2019s costumes could not be bettered,” said James Agate in the Sunday Times<\/em>, but my sole book of Peake artwork doesn’t mention the play at all, and these drawings are the only examples to found after a web search, not the photos I was hoping for. The one below is a more original conception than those used by the amateur actors in the \u0160vankmajer film.<\/p>\n

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My own workload is gaining momentum just now so posting here may be sporadic for a while. I’m also recoding my website from scratch which doesn’t help when you already have more than enough plates spinning. Having refreshed the blog with a flexible template that resizes itself for different devices I decided it to do the same for the rest of the site. I last attempted anything on this scale in 2005 so I’m having to educate myself all over again in the mysteries of cascading style sheets. And I have hundreds of pages that need working on\u2026 This will take some time.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Bookmark: Mervyn Peake<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Web by Joan Ashworth<\/a>
\n\u2022 Peake\u2019s glassblowers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mervyn Peake in Coronation Street<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Worlds of Mervyn Peake<\/a>
\n\u2022 A profusion of Peake<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mervyn Peake at Maison d\u2019Ailleurs<\/a>
\n\u2022 Peake\u2019s Pan<\/a>
\n\u2022 Buccaneers #1<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mervyn Peake in Lilliput<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Illustrators of Alice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having recently watched Jan \u0160vankmajer’s self-reflexive film of the Capek Brothers’ Insect Play I was intrigued by a mention in one of the Mervyn Peake biographies that Peake had created costumes for two stagings of the play in London in 1932 and 1936. “Mr Mervyn Peake\u2019s costumes could not be bettered,” said James Agate in … Continue reading “Peake’s Insects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Peake's Insects","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,46],"tags":[10774,375,10773,10772,79],"class_list":["post-19908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-theatre","tag-james-agate","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-josef-capek","tag-karel-capek","tag-mervyn-peake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}