Aug 29, 2023 | Essential Posts - History - Shakespeare - Theatre - Writing
Shakespeare: A Wordsmith For All Seasons Shakespeare’s unmatched linguistic prowess allowed him to coin and popularize a staggering number of words. It’s estimated that he introduced around 1,700 words to the English language—at least, his plays are the...
Aug 26, 2023 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre
Playing the expectations game is dangerous. You rewrite Romeo & Juliet, you’d best bring something new to the table. You write about the fall of Jerusalem, there had better be something uplifting in that awful story. And if you write a novel about William...
Aug 25, 2023 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre - Uncategorized - Writing
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and how the Capulet-Montague feud inspired a series of historical novels I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was JULIUS CAESAR, and I hated it. In high school, it was ROMEO & JULIET, which...
Aug 24, 2023 | Shakespeare - Theatre
If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio...
Mar 4, 2022 | History - Nellie Bly - Theatre
New York World -Sunday, March 4, 1888 She Wears a Scant Costume and Marches With the Amazons It Isn’t Very Hard to Get Such a Job—The Girls Earn $5 a Week—Tights that Did Not Fit—Dressing in a Crowded Room—How She Behaved on the Stage—A Bad Beginning. I made my début...
Jul 11, 2021 | Film & Television - History - Theatre
I think I’m a bad party guest. Last night I attended my first post-vaccinated dinner party. It was the birthday of one of my wife’s high school friends, so it was mostly people I’d never met. Like you do, conversation seeks common ground, and at one...
