Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Book Note: Tales from Shakespeare by Marcia Williams

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Williams, Marcia. Tales from Shakespeare: Seven Plays Presented and Illustrated by Marcia Williams . Candlewick Press, 1998. ———. More Tale...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Book Note: The Devil and his Boy

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Horowitz, Anthony. The Devil and his Boy . Philomel Books, 1998. We're just finishing up Studies in the Novel: Mystery and Detective Fic...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Book Note: ShakesFear and How to Cure It

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Cohen, Ralph Alan. ShakesFear and How to Cure It: The Complete Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare . The Arden Shakespeare, 2016. I chanced ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators

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“O Brave New World.” By Paul Matthew Thompson and Jude Tindall. Perf. Mark Benton, Jo Joyner, and Patrick Walshe McBride. Dir. Piotr Szkopia...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Book Note: Hamlet Off Stage

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Berry, D. C . Hamlet Off Stage . Texas Review Press, 2009. Longtime readers will know that I try to keep my finger on the pulse of modern li...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Book Note: Nine Girls

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Pettitt, Wilfrid H. Nine Girls: A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts . The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1943. I need to post this today so that...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Book Note: Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud

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Greenblatt, Stephen, and Adam Phillips. Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud . Yale University Press, 2024. Stephen Greenblatt's new bo...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Book Note: Drury Lane's Last Case

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Queen, Ellery [Barnaby Ross, pseud.]. Drury Lane's Last Case: The Tragedy of 1599 . Little, Brown, 1946. Unavoidably (at least for me), ...