The Shakespeare Institute's conference has only just started, but already a host of ideas is swirling around in my head.
Not all of them are from the conference, but I promised myself that this would be a very Shakespeare-intense series of days.
When I'm not walking to some of my favorite old restaurants around the area, I'm reading Germain Greer's Shakespeare's Wife. It's quite lovely--disarming at points, funny quite a lot, sometimes contradictory but extraordinarily scholarly, the book is a very good read.
I fell for it when I first saw the chapter headings. Like Tom Jones (the novel, not the singer—that's why the MLA form for underlining is so important . . . I can easily distinguish between Tom Jones and Tom Jones—the chapter headings are huge and whimsical.
One of my favorites so far is Chapter Five:
Chapter Five of the making of a match, of impediments to marriage and how to overcome them, of bonds and special licenses and pregnancy as a way of forcing the issue, of bastards and bastardy, and the girl who got away.Very nice.
And applicable to my paper—which is to be delivered at 9:00 tomorrow morning.
In short, I'm enjoying the book very much. I just hope I enjoy giving the paper half as much.
Perhaps I should revamp my title to fit Greer's style . . . .
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