I can't take me anywhere, apparently.

[tempestsarekind]

I went to the bookstore today, and browsed the Shakespeare section, since I hadn't in a while. (Hey, have I mentioned how irritating and silly I think this whole "Innogen" thing is? Admittedly I have a personal bias toward the Folio version of the name, which is, oh, the version that has been bequeathed to history and all, but "because Simon Forman

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[litlover12]

It's better than crying in a bookstore (which I've done)!

[tempestsarekind]

I suppose that's true! I don't think I've ever cried in a bookstore. Dining hall, yes; bookstore, no.

[litlover12]

It was a kids' book, and it was really really sweet, and . . . I'd better stop before I tear up again!

Sounds like a proverb for our times: Better to laugh over Shakespeare than cry over children's books. Or something. :-)

[tempestsarekind]

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad"? :)

oh too precious

[viomisehunt]

As long as the caption, beneath DT, doesn't start tommorow, tommorow, tommorow. It is interesting that KB isn't on the cover, but certainly the author wants it to sell! Haven't seen David's version yet. When is it due back on PBS?

Re: oh too precious

[tempestsarekind]

After I'd thought about it for a second, it made sense: Adrian Noble used to be the artistic director for the RSC, and the photographs in the book also seemed (from a quick flip-through) to be mostly from RSC productions.

DT's Hamlet is supposed to be on PBS on April 28, at least according to a fan site. (PBS is being remarkably un-forthcoming about the whole thing.)

[troyswann]

Innogen makes me cranky.

Shouldn't that book be, "Who to do Shakespeare?" :)

[tempestsarekind]

Very possibly. :)

The whole Innogen thing is just--either you're arguing that hewing closely to the extant text is the goal or you're not, guys! It's not "extant text but changing the bits we secretly don't like very much."