Tag Archives: Shakespeare

Book Review: Becoming Shakespeare

Posted on August 20, 2017 by nathanalbright

Becoming Shakespeare:  The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned A Provincial Playwright Into The Bard, by Jack Lynch This book is an interesting piece of history, in that it presupposes the life and writing career of Shakespeare [1] and looks at the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare

Posted on August 20, 2017 by nathanalbright

Players:  The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare, by Bertram Fields There is a deep hypocrisy at the heart of this book, one that is shared by many of its type among those who posit alternative theories for the authorship of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Jedi Doth Return

Posted on August 1, 2017 by nathanalbright

William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return, by Ian Doescher When I picked this book up at the library I did not see any of its companion volumes, but I did not have the time to look closely.  All I had … Continue reading →

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Johannes Factotum

Posted on April 29, 2017 by nathanalbright

The first appearance that William Shakespeare made in the wider world of arts and letters was in a ferocious pamphlet written by the now nearly forgotten Robert Greene, in which the Stratford-born playwright was called a Johannes Factotum, a jack-of-all-trades … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Review: Shakespeare: The World As Stage

Posted on January 26, 2017 by nathanalbright

Shakespeare:  The World As Stage, written and read by Bill Bryson Having enjoyed Bryson’s humorous account of a trip along the Appalachian Trail [1] and being a fairly intense bardophile of the Stratfordian type [2], like the author, this was … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How To Read And Why

Posted on December 10, 2016 by nathanalbright

How To Read And Why, by Harold Bloom Many people have read the writings of Harold Bloom, and for decades he has demonstrated himself to be a major supporter of the Great Books and someone who encourages others to read … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare

Posted on June 21, 2014 by nathanalbright

How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, by Ken Ludwig [Note: This book was provided by Blogging For Books for free in exchange for an honest review.] It is clear from even a cursory look at this book that Ken Ludwig … Continue reading →

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The Past Is Prologue

Posted on September 22, 2013 by nathanalbright

In the second act of Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” one of the characters make the following statement as part of a speech: “We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again, And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what’s … Continue reading →

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Good Catalog Value

Posted on November 28, 2012 by nathanalbright

When I was an undergraduate student, I often read the Chart Beat columns by former Billboard writer Fred Bronson. Included in his commentary of chart hits was his lament that all too often radio stations only thought about the here … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare Must Die

Posted on April 5, 2012 by nathanalbright

There is no avoiding the political nature of Shakespeare’s plays. Abraham Lincoln, for example, was fascinated by the play Macbeth, and its musing on how power is acquired and abused by tyrants. It just so happens that a renegade Thai … Continue reading →

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