Shakespeare | Shakespeare
May.04.2012
I’m looking for courageous folks to read and review my new novel, Falstaff’s Big gamble. I’m planning to launch it right after the summer. It’s the latest in my Strange Worlds Stories
All reviewers will have their names thrown into a hat and one will win a gift card.
If you’re...
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Apr.09.2012
Thanks William,
If that's your real name.
We live our lives questioning if what we think and believe is the road we are destined to take is the road we're meant to travel. From the day we are born we are surrounded by people... and their understandings of life which quickly become our own...
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Apr.07.2012
There is a famous speech where Hamlet instructs the players on acting. Many have taken this speech as Shakespeare himself speaking to his actors. And that may be true in part, as the advice is sound. But there is a glint within the lines that suggests to me two other purposes: First...
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Mar.24.2012
OK - this appeals to me. I would enjoy "flipping" through Shakespeare's Folio and Mozart's letters. Chaucer is going to be difficult. [I know - I know. Where is Kafka?]
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Imagine...
Curling up on the sofa with one of Jane Austen’s hand-written manuscripts
Marvelling at...
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Mar.15.2012
Photo: poster for the Swedish movie, from its Wikipedia page
Rented the Swedish version, the original, of course, and figured I would share my thoughts about it, as compared to David Fincher's American film. Feel free to agree, or disagree. And please read my write-up...
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Mar.03.2012
After Shakespeare
Nightly Reward
Once the garish sun dips,
Venus kisses the gibbous moon
then skips off with Jupiter.
Delightful celestial dance—
a nightly reward for earthlings,
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Feb.19.2012
Here's the brief description of my recently submitted ms. on Shakespeare. Notice that I'm not shy in describing the selling points of myown work. Agents like descriptions of this sort, because they save time and effort:
Shakespeare's Back Room: Tricks and Transgressions of...
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Feb.16.2012
ACTOR OR COMEDIAN?
In Shakespeare’s time the roles were usually more clearly defined, even within each performance. You had your tragic kings and murderous behind-the-scenes wives and servants, and then you had your Bottoms, prancing about wearing a donkey’s head. Even if we now often don’t...
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Feb.03.2012
The missus had steadfastly refused to see this movie (she's a grammar prescriptivist, and apparently so hidebound in cultural dogma that she can't entertain a "what-if" about one of western culture's icons), so on an occasion to leave the house alone, I decided to see this movie.
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