Shakespeare | Shakespeare
Nov.15.2011
One of the stories in Tales From Gundarland is my version of one of Shakespeare's most famous stories. I transported it to Gundarland and changed the main characters slightly. The entire story can be read in my award-winning collection of six short stories and two novellas....
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Nov.14.2011
In Shakespeare's Richard III, there are those words. "Now is the winter of our discontent..."
Those are the opening words of the play and serve as the backdrop to the portrait of Richard as a discontented man--unhappy in a world he believes conspires against him continually.
I know the...
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Nov.13.2011
It has always seemed to me that the English language doesn't have enough words for love. We use the same word to do too many jobs. I think we need an International Committee, like the one studying the Dead Sea Scrolls, to categorize each kind of love and create the proper word. We could just...
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Oct.31.2011
There are some salient links in this article. This whole nonsense of Shakespeare not writing his plays and poems seems cut from whole cloth. It is not that his detractors have not heard of genius, or do not believe in it. They are envious of it.
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Will The Real...
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Oct.19.2011
Mind you, I still want to see the movie. It looks to be well done and entertaining (and exciting). And all the denouncing it gets is - let's face it - publicity for the film itself. But when the heir to the royal throne of Elizabeth I takes note, take note we should. It's become a family affair....
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Oct.18.2011
Even though Shakespeare spelled his own name a half dozen different ways, he was Shakespeare. And he did write the plays of Shakespeare. It is a lunatic assumption that he did not do so. But the lunatics have persisted throughout the ages, usually asserting that a common man could not have...
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Oct.06.2011
As poetry is an incredibly language and culture-based art form, I would think that location would be most easily identifiable based on the poems themselves. I recently helped the National Center for Performing Arts (aka: The Egg) here in Beijing with a translation of the Orphan of Zhao...
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Sep.20.2011
On Friday, September 23, CH 6, 10:00 A.M.,Laguna Woods, CA,
“The Write Now Show” opens with a Bard.
William Shakespeare that is … and with the Question: Is Shakespeare Still Relevant?
Two guests will join co-hosts Judy Saxon and Charlie Redner with hopes of answering this question in very much the...
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Sep.19.2011
One of my first exposures, if not the first, to some works of great literature came from playing the card game, Authors, with friends in the neighborhood. The girls across the street owned the game, and we often played it hour after hour on their breezeway in the summer. For those who...
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Aug.12.2011
In a prior millennium, I had my only chance to direct a play by William Shakespeare. The play, As You Like It, was being performed at an outdoor venue I knew well. The Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre is located in the shell of an old blacksmith shop at the Annapolis city dock, in a building...
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