Feb 20, 2012 | Books - Essential Posts - Publishing - The Novel
When I announced the EVE OF IDES reading, I said it would be the first of many pieces of news. As promised, here we go! On April 23, Amazon Kindle will publish five (5!) of my novels, along with three short stories and several essays. I'll give a more detailed...
Aug 27, 2007 | Essential Posts
In light of all the new traffic I’m getting, I have gone back and tagged the key posts on this blog as "Essential Posts." For those who have just read, or are reading, or are interested in reading THE MASTER OF VERONA, I would like to commend these to...
Jun 27, 2007 | Essential Posts - Shakespeare - Theatre
There are two battles at the top of Macbeth. Whenever I am in charge of the staging, I try and open the show with both of these, just to make things clear. But whether or not they're staged, they are laid out in Act I scene ii. Appropriately, they come from two...
Jun 26, 2007 | Essential Posts - Shakespeare - Theatre
There are perhaps three uber-famous speeches in Macbeth, but the one that is most often quoted is the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech. It’s often taken as an existential lament, recited by actors and professors with a deep sorrowful...
May 17, 2007 | Essential Posts - Shakespeare - Theatre
I never enjoy productions of Romeo & Juliet that play the Tragedy from the beginning. In fact, I think the famous Prologue is tacked on – it doesn’t appear in the First Folio! In the earliest texts we have, the show begins with two guys walking down...
May 15, 2007 | Essential Posts - Shakespeare - Theatre
For the last nine or ten years, I’ve been giving a lecture on Romeo & Juliet to students at Howell High School in Michigan. In a couple of days, I’ll be doing it again, six hours straight of repeating a fun but exhausting run-through of all the...
