“Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists” – Bly’s Coverage of the Suffrage Convention in 1896
This is a complete transcription of the article “Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists”, originally printed in The New York World, Jan. 26, 1896. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — I pushed in the swinging door, noticing as I did that it was covered with yellow canton flannel,...
Nellie Bly: In A Diet Kitchen
The New York World - Sunday, December 23, 1888 The Sad Procession of Invalids Begging For the Simplest Food. Nellie Bly Visits the Wretched Homes of Some of the Sufferers. A Charity that Dispenses Nourishment to the Afflicted Poor with Liberal Hand and Irrespective of...
Captive Colours – Prologue
I'm a long way from finished. It'll take me all year, probably. But you've been so very patient. So here's something to tide you over. I love you all. CAPTIVE COLOURS Prologue Pavia, Italy 14 August 1329 “Where is he?” The question echoed throughout Italy,...
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Important Infelicity
This is an incredibly minor flaw in the typesetting, one that I thought I had dealt with, but that didn't make the transfer from my notes to the actual physical book. In the Dramatis Personae, on the page listing the Capulletti family, there is a diamond beside...
Radio Silence
Bizarrely, I have little to say at the moment. I'm fighting off the pull to play Mac by rote. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying Pistol in Henry V. Good times. Good people. I'm also working diligently on a super-secret TV pilot. It's almost done. Jan and I did a...
Mac-beth
This may seem an incredibly minor and nit-picky point, but honestly, after fifteen years of productions and between one and two hundred performances of the show, this is something that sets my teeth on edge. His name is not Mcbeth. He is not Irish. His name is...
“And young Benvolio is deceased as well…”
If you wanted to throw my whole theory about the cause of the feud out of whack, you could point out to me that Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. I would answer with a nod, a sigh, a smile. “I know. Benvolio does.” The first legitimate...
The Greyhound has Landed
This morning FedEx arrived with a package from my editor. It contained the finished, physical hardcover edition of THE MASTER OF VERONA. There will be plenty of time to pour through the book and find the type-setting infelicities and lost grace-notes - they will...
Origin of the Capulet-Montague Feud
Due to the recent interest in this site, and seeing as how the publication of THE MASTER OF VERONA is upon us, it seems appropriate to explain how the book (and, in turn, the blog) came about. Early in 1999 I was directing Romeo & Juliet at the Ann Arbor Civic...
Macbeth – Two Battles, Two Betrayals, Two Heroes
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...
Blatant Plug
Mmm. I seem to be getting a lot of hits based on my "Tomorrow" post. Thanks to shakespearegeek.com and shakespeareteacher.com for pointing people my way. And stay tuned for tomorrow's post (sadly, not another "Tomorrow" post) for some more Macbeth...
Macbeth – Tomorrow and tomorrow…
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 intonation....
Shakespeare Limericks – Volume Two
More from Marty Smith: Pistol and Bardolph and Nym Found their friend old Sir John looking grim; They mourned him quite well, And then turned to Nell, Who soothed them in ways not so prim. ...
