Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

Several years ago, I read about Bob Smith's memoir, Hamlet's Dresser , on Maria Grazia's blog,  Fly High .  My thought at th...

I just started reading A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen , edited by Susannah Carson, and found ...

I finished Act IV of Paul Collins' The Book of William last night and am happy to report that I am still loving this book. The book is...

After checking my Yahoo mail this morning, I saw an article on Yahoo (that wasn't about Colorado's own "balloon boy"!) th...

Isn't this a cool painting? It's called " All the World's a Stage ," and it's by James Christensen. I managed to ...

I've been reading and discussing Henry V along with Ann from TableTalk , and last week I watched all three movie versions, starting wit...

Disc two only had two episodes--the first I talked about briefly in last Sunday's post, it was how to play Shylock...interesting but pal...

I reread the portion of James Shapiro’s 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare that deals with the rogue publication of some of Sh...

I heard about Playing Shakespeare , a series of taped workshops led by legendary Shakespearean director, John Barton , and finally got the ...

Stratford was a delight from the minute we arrived until we left two days later. In reviewing our photos to select the ones for this postin...

I read James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.) a few weeks ago, and am enjoying to no end going back and...

I finally got started on A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.) , which I learned about from Nick Hornby . It is as terrifi...