Just posting so I can find it later: All of the Guardian's Shakespeare Solos videos on YouTube ( Read more... )

A Shakespeare book coming out in 2016:

The One King Lear by Brian Vickers
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504844

Here's the website copy:

King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each ( Read more... )

This is a telling realization, as my "comedy is hard" tag gets frequent use.

Anyway, has anyone else read this article from 2014?

Shakespeare's Bloody Problem: Why the Tragedies Almost Never Work Anymorehttp://www.vulture.com/2014/06/shakespeare-has- ( Read more... )

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... )

King Lear podcasts from the National Theatre ( 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... )

Kate Beaton, ILU.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=283

Thought that just crystallized, even though I think I had the inchoate form of it before:

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's... (King Lear)

That is totally Fraser's hat, in "Hawk and a Handsaw." And that's why they can threaten ( Read more... )

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Not much to say about Little Dorrit this week--though I continue to love it, and am disappointed when it ends every week--except that I'd suspected that part of my problem with William Dorrit is that he is more or less King Lear, and this week pretty much confirmed that. And my desire to punch him in the face from last week has now spread to the ( Read more... )