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…says the blurb on the back of the book. And I have to agree. Mamet-ian in his no-nonsense approach to the Bard’s writings. Louis Fantasia (what a great name) wastes very little time on versification, poetic devices and rhetorical terms and mentions Iambic Pentameter twice! That’s it. Taking as contrast Peter Hall’s book ‘ Sh’s [...] …first impressions. The Bellot Mountjoy suit research he did kicks butt! Loads of little insights into everyday events that may or may not have been transformed into imagery and conceit. i looked for the way the Jacobean lawyers who wrote the depositions spelled Shakespeare, and it was in each case Shakespeare; though others and SH himself spelt [...] Lost and Found in Translation: This post is based around the original and just goes to show how I interacted with it. Well worth reading only 22 pages long. Brilliant piece of scholarship and appreciation of the many questions raised [...] …spent more than enough time in ‘em looking for him and those about him. So what was his experience of libraries? Libraries were few and far between. And the Conspiracists use this to their supposed advantage, saying where oh where could a mere Shakespeare browse and study? Well here’s one probable answer. The largest library in Elizabethan [...] What if there were that much more to know about the complexity of the Elizabethan Theatre? ‘As an unperfect actor on the stage’ is practically my motto. I, as an actor, am not without mustard. …reading James Shapiro’s book and the last chapter is his defence of Shakespeare of Stratford. I’d like to say yet again the whole argument is beneath the amount of press it’s getting; irrelevant to enjoying and appreciating Shakespeare. But serendipitously Shapiro supplies in the re-telling of this anecdote, the rebuttal to a commonly used (the [...] …hey Tony, Vito, Joey. This proposition must be very confusing to members of the mob (ie the Mafia not the RAF). A non-catholic Italian?! A catholic Engl;ishman? The mob of course are used to people’s identities being changed. As [...] …aka classical climate theory: an ancient racialism ingrained in our thinking through the influence of intuitive humoral psychology. Sh’s generation recorded the falling from grace of this particular theory. Nowadays you’ll find it in your horoscope in any newspaper. Thin body types are secretive, fat types are jovial, medium build types are adventurous. Now apply [...] …apparently some diplomatic wags made this one up when discussing Kaiser Wilhelm’s forays into peace making on his extreme eastern front. I derived it from the book titled ‘The Orientalist’ sub-titled ‘Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life’ by Tom Reiss. He is seeking the eventful history of Kurban Said, aka Essad Bey [...] John Weever and John Davies are two contemporaries who reported on the reputation of Shakespeare/Shakspere without contorting and cutting him in twain. Both are commended for reporting on Sh’s accomplishments in verse and neither condemned for exposing him as not him who writ it. Both placed him within the writing scene, printshops and theatres, acknowledging [...] |
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