While I was browsing in the bookstore the other day, I came across a book in the Shakespeare section called Poor Tom. Since - as the tag says - Edgar is my very best favorite, I picked up the book, expecting it to be on vagrancy or something ( Read more... )

See, Sam Crane understands (I agree with everything except the last line, because I lean toward having Edgar rather than Albany have the last lines of the play, which means that Edgar's worldview does sort of win out, and certainly it triumphs in the duel with Edmund):

“It’s not like good prevails and evil doesn’t but Edgar is keen that there ( Read more... )

One of the things I want to do in 2009 (not quite a resolution, but something similar) is to listen to more Shakespeare; the library has the entire Arkangel series as well as other individual recordings, which I should take more advantage of. So I started with King Lear, on the theory that at some point I'm planning to write on it, so it's not ( Read more... )