I Love Shakespeare

…to read a good book. Or awake and restless to while away the hours forgetful of your dis-ease. The book of William, the promised blog.

Solopsism central to any understanding of these words reviewing my greed reading this book.

It arrived late and unsigned as promised in the sell but to hell with that. The anticipation [...]

So what does a contended and contentious music writer have to say about Shakespeare?

Well first off, he’s a damn fine scholar in my estimation. Second he’s got a bone to pick with another Lady scholar. And Clinton Heylin’s scholarship picks that bone like a starving hyena.

The premise is that the sonnet quarto published by [...]

…makes me feel fine, flowin’ through the jasmine in my mind.

Ok enough, enough with the Ron Rosenbaum enthusiasm. I spent yesterday cruising the web for reviews of his Shakespeare Wars. (I hear cries of ‘get a life’)

The reason being I’m having trouble finishing his book, despite repeated attempts to do so. I love the [...]

…Sir Peter Hall’s insistence on a pause, howsoever slight, at the end of an IP verse line is sound.

Silence rather.

It allows the listener’s ear to hear,
their mind to digest the meaning of the utterance;
and the speaker to remain poised,
if it is a run-on line.

Or stop,
and continue fresh at the beginning
of the [...]

…So dipping into Sh’s philosophical perspective we find a slew of themes which any decent philosopher (ie anyone who thinks about what life is all about) encounters today. Such as:

* Skepticism and the possibility of human knowledge
* The nature of self and personal identity
* The understanding of causation (no cause, no cause)
* The existence and [...]