Shakespeare | Shakespeare
Feb.04.2013
I've never really thought that much about audiobooks for myself thinking them more suitable for children, the elderly, the blind, for drivers who are regularly stuck in a traffic jam, or for when avid readers go away on a road trip and find it impossible to read without becoming nauseated. So...
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Jan.30.2013
Photo: A Florida Box Turtle, from the Wikipedia page for "turtle." (You'll have to read below to get the connection between the title and the pic.)
Just a quick note:
My poem, "An Old Man," (which is not about an old man, per se; it's an extended metaphor, representative of...
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Jan.29.2013
Barack Obama – a Red Room member, by the way – has expressed concern about the damage football causes to its participants. If the violence in the game is reduced, thus also reducing the damage to bodies and brains, then ``those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as...
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Jan.25.2013
I've been told that all you ever need to know about being human can be found in Hamlet. It might be. It might not. Still, Shaksbeard (as he once spelled himself) knew much about humans if less about plot. PBS, which is letting out all the high-toned stops to enmesh us in Downton Abbey, now seeks...
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Jan.07.2013
January 7th is the birthday of Thomas of Woodstock, born (in 1355, i.e. 658 years ago) a Plantagenet as the youngest child of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and the subject of an untitled anonymous Elizabethan play referred to as Thomas of Woodstock and preserved at the...
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Nov.21.2012
I bummed round the world in the '70s when I was still a teen. In India I came across a young man who was tall and thin with scraggly blond hair and beard. He was raised in Dutch Indonesia speaking Nederlands and an Indonesian dialect and taught himself English by reading the plays of William...
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Nov.20.2012
Goethe wrote The Sufferings of Young Werther in 1774 and the book soon became a sensation, following Goethe throughout his career as emblematic of a romantic passion he came to distrust.
Now Stanley Corngold has brought out a fresh translation--a good one--and the book’s oddness, its power...
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Nov.10.2012
Kirkus Reviews recently reviewed my new novel Falstaff's Big Gamble. Here is the entire review.
FALSTAFF'S BIG GAMBLE
Quense (Zaftan Entrepreneurs, 2011, etc.) puts classic Shakespeare characters in a fantastical world, with humorous results.
Several memorable Shakespeare characters...
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Oct.23.2012
My new novel, Falstaff's Big Gamble is having a giveaway on Books, Books and More Books. You have only a week to enter. You can't win if you don't enter.
To enter, follow this link and you'll see the giveaway entry box. http://dream-reader-dreamer2229.blogspot.com/2012/10/...
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Oct.10.2012
This type of presentation has been a while coming - well, it's already here. Not just a play but access to much else. See famous renditions by acclaimed actors. Have the references of Shakespeare's own time explained. I find all this interesting. I also wonder how an embedded contemporary novel...
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