Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

I absolutely loved listening to Judi Dench and fellow Shakespearean actor Brendan O'Hea chat about their work, their industry, their col...

I have wanted to read The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson, since I was a little kid. One of my older brothers must have read the ...

Hag-Seed , Margaret Atwood's retelling of Shakepeare's The Tempest , came to my attention because it was on the long list of the ...

A few days before my May road trip I finished a 10-week FutureLearn online course, "Shakespeare and His World," taught by ...

I've just started Romola , by George Eliot.  It's the last of my Classics Challenge books for 2013 , and I'll be hard presse...

Henry the Fifth was first performed in March 1599, immediately after the theaters reopened after being closed for Lent. Hence, it is the fi...

Trolling my favorite blogs for airplane reading a few weeks ago, I pounced on a title that appealed to me on every level, Nick Hornby's ...

I'm inching towards completing my project of reading all of Shakespeare's plays in order. I'm looking at almost two years since...

I just got my tickets for four of this summer's plays--we'll be enjoying Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, The Three Musketeers...