Published 2009. There are devotees of Wagner, Madre Teresa, and Cristiano Ronaldo; my fate has been Shakespeare. “I like to think that Shakespeare would have adopted a similar procedure if he had been commissioned to write his own biography,” says Bate. Uhm…Really? Narcissism on Bate’s part? May...
Published 2010. “Once upon a time, a very long, long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.” What you get contents-wise: Once Upon a Time; What it is; When it Began; The Study of English; Periods and Movements; Among the E...
Published 2008. “He helps us understand the human condition. But he cannot do this without a good text of the plays. Without editions there would be no Shakespeare. That is why throughout the last three centuries there has been a major new edition of his complete works.” (Jonathan Bate) I studie...
The Henry VIs are my favourite Shakespeare plays and this is a good edition of them from the RSC, with clear and conscious editorial choices - the RSC argues that the Folio, which reflects the choices of people who actually knew Shakespeare and worked in his company, is the closest to Shakespeare's ...
Shakespeare is said to have been a keen gardenerWhen I visited the exhibition Shakespeare: Staging the World with my family, we all felt the same thing; a sad gap in our knowledge had been filled with rich and fruitful learning! I have always enjoyed Shakespeare thanks to great teaching when I studi...
I love these new RSC editions of plays, although the Kindle formatting of the playtexts themselves is absolutely dire. I buy them anyway because the ancillary material is so excellent. There are careful textual notes about all discrepancies between the Folio (which the texts are based on) and any qu...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Measure for Measure is a weird Shakespeare play: there's too much mixing of comedy and serious subject matter that it's hard to pin down exactly what kind of play it is. (No wonder it's called a "problem" play.) It's definitely a...
Note: This review was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Basically, a girl gets shipwrecked far from home and thinks she has just seen her brother die, so she gallivants as a boy in the duke's court. There's a lot of partying, a lot of drinking, a lot of singing, a lot of crude and bawdy jo...
This is a story about a General who is thrust into the world of politics, namely because he was such a good general. However, while he happpens to be a great general, as a politician he positively sucks. Basically, Gaius Marcius' main flaw (despite the fact that I don't believe in fatal flaws) is th...
Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me, Even for his sake am I pitiless. Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in vain To save your brother from the sacrifice, But fierce Andronicus would not relent. - Tamora Titus Andronicus 2.3, ll. 161-165 Note: The reviews below were taken directly from my Go...
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