Oct 30, 2006 | Shakespeare - Theatre
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet is not a Tragedy at all. Each time I’ve seen it done, I’ve thought the various directors (with all due respect) missed the boat. Why? Because the show isn’t a Tragedy. A Tragedy, in the classical sense, revolves around a single...
Jul 6, 2006 | Shakespeare
Those who have studied Shakespeare’s sources will be critical of my choice of years. As I’ve stated earlier, Luigi da Porto, whose version of the story was penned in the early 16th Century, firmly places the events of the play between 1301 and 1304. This is during the...
Jul 3, 2006 | Books - The Novel
In another quarter of an hour Ciolo found the house, right where it was supposed to be. There was the hanging garden. There was the juniper bush. The house was frescoed with a pagan god holding a staff with two snakes on it. The god...
Jul 1, 2006 | Essential Posts
Not happy with how the novel was progressing, I fought halfway through a bad version before I realized I wasn’t writing the story I wanted to tell. More research, more false starts. Finally I took a deep breath and settled in to read Dante’s Divine Comedy, something I...
Jun 27, 2006 | Books - Essential Posts - Shakespeare - The Novel
I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was Julius Caesar. In high school, first it was Romeo & Juliet, which was cool only because we wasted a week watching the movie – the Zefferelli, not the DeCaprio version. The next year it was...
