Continuing my series of obsessive posts on a production I'm not getting to see any time soon, reviews of the RSC's second tetralogy are now out.

Excerpts:

From the Guardian:

Here [Boyd's tendency towards having corpses unable to stay in the ground] works best in Richard II. At the very beginning, as the gilded monarch processes towards his ( Read more... )

slacktivist has an lj feed now, so I remember to read them regularly, and I wish to remark that his analysis/sporking of the Left Behind series, or rather just the first one thus far, from a liberal Christian POV, is fantastic and well-worth reading. I mention it now as the most recent installment makes me giggle, or rather, this bit did:

The anchor switches ( Read more... )

I can't sleep and thus have been perusing the Guardian, where I came across a couple of articles that may be of interest to those of you who share my interest in Shakespeare editing. (Which also give me an excuse to use this icon. ;) )

From the department of I Could Have Told You That:

On the new RSC Complete Works of Shakespeare edition, which ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was hubristic enough to think I was up to eating Real Food, and this act ushered in the return of the Random Stomach Thing that's been bothering me all week. I find it profoundly unfair that I've spent most of my spring break feeling like condensed ick. It also means that I have done very little on the Woodstock paper other than to ( Read more... )

If anyone else is a great big geek like me and is interested, a bunch of reviews of Richard II at the Old Vic, in which Kevin Spacey plays the title role:

Guardian
Independent and another
Telegraph
BBC News - EntertainmentMany of the comments the reviewers make about the play are silly (and a few are downright stupid) but I shall spare you the ( Read more... )

EMLS, an online journal which actually doesn't make you shell out money to read it, has a new issue out now which contains many nifty things, including a review of the Liverpool Faustus which the Hornblower and/or Galactica fans out there may enjoy reading, and an article on the popular voice in Richard II which is sometimes interesting and ( Read more... )

Those of you in DSP's production, or just into Shakespeare, might like this Guardian article on the Henry IVs as English national epic. It's occasioned by the current production at the NT, of course, but the article itself isn't specific to it, really.

Crown and country: No other play has captured England's soul like Henry IV, writes Michael ( Read more... )