Jun 9, 2007 | Shakespeare
Over at Bow and Lyre, they’ve clued me in to a fun little game. As they say: Salman Rushdie once made a parlour game out of re-working the titles of Shakespeare’s plays to sound as if they were thrillers by Robert Ludlum. Test your knowledge of the Bard by...
Jun 7, 2007 | Film & Television - Shakespeare - Theatre
I mentioned the other day that I was watching season 2 of Slings & Arrows. Well, I stopped. Not because it’s bad. It’s a marvelous Canadian show about theatre – basically, a send-up of life at the Stratford Festival. No, the problem is I know...
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...
May 10, 2007 | Books - Reviews - Shakespeare
I was contacted by a reviewer this past weekend. She quite liked MV, confessing to pulling an all-nighter to finish it. Which is very cheering, despite my bizarre yet compelling need to apologize for keeping her awake. She also had some questions. A couple were easy...
Apr 14, 2007 | Books - Publishing - Shakespeare - The Novel
This is the text that will appear on the dust-jacket flap. I am pleased to say I had a hand in crafting it – all those years hanging around my parents’ ad agency must have rubbed off a bit. Romeo and Juliet is the greatest...
