In a sign that the market for comic book versions of Shakespeare is growing, the UK publisher Classical Comics has announced that it will begin distributing graphic novel adaptations of “Henry V” and Macbeth” in the U.S. and Canada this fall. The comics were first released late last year in the UK. Now, Classical Comics [...]
Victoria A. Brownworth and Ishita Singh have written an article for “The Baltimore Sun” examining the pros and cons of manga comic book versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Brownworth and Singh asked teens and educators whether, “Manga is the way to bring Shakespeare or other classics to the masses of kids moaning at the thought of [...]
Since women were not allowed to perform on the Elizabethan stage, boy actors played some the most important roles created by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Juliet, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth and Beatrice are just a few of the characters first brought to life by young boys. Now, author John Pilkington is taking his readers into the [...]
“Is the greatest writer in the English language primarily a poet or a dramatist?” That’s the question poet and essayist Peter Porter asked in his recent review of the Arden Shakespeare edition of “Shakespeare’s Poems” for the “The Times Literary Supplement.” “Shakespeare’s Poems” is edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and H. R. Woudhuysen.
Porter explains that one [...]
Shakespeare Criticism
Comedy Matters : From Shakespeare to Stoppard by William W. Demastes (Hardcover)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0230604714
ISBN-13: 9780230604711
From Elsinore To Mexico City - The Pervasiveness Of Shakespeare’s Hamlet In Xavier Villaurrutia’s Invitacion A La Muerte by Raymond Marion Watkins (Paperback)
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.
ISBN-10: 3639004884
ISBN-13: 9783639004885
Henry IV, Part 1 (Bloom’s Shakespeare Through the Ages) by [...]
“George Garrett, 78, the author of more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, biography and criticism, including an acclaimed trilogy of historical novels set in Elizabethan England, died May 26 at his home in Charlottesville. He had bladder cancer.” Read the Washington Post obituary
“The author of dozens of books, Garrett was best-known for a trilogy [...]
“The Bearkeeper” by Josh Lacey takes it readers to the darker side of the Elizabethan entertainment world: the bear baiting pit. Pip, the hero of the book, rescues a bear from its otherwise grisly fat and along the way runs into Robert Armin, Inigo Jones, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage and even William Shakespeare.
In a review [...]
In a review of “Shakespeare’s Wife” by Germaine Greer for “The Washington Post,” Elaine Showalter, professor emerita of English at Princeton University, say the book is as much about Greer as Ann Hathaway. Showalter arrives at this conclusion after analyzing Greer’s critiques of other Shakespeare scholars. Showalter writes, “It’s invigorating to read her fierce rebuttals [...]
The publisher’s description for the new book “Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?” by Nigel Smith says, “This book rediscovers and redefines Milton for a new generation, one that especially needs and deserves to know him.”
As the description explains, our generation needs and deserves to know him because, “The Milton of this volume is an author [...]
Germaine Greer, author of “Shakespeare’s Wife,” spoke with Hephzibah Anderson of Bloomberg about the book and what drives her work.
When asked about the Shakespeare industry she had some harsh words for the Bard’s hometown turned tourist mecca. Greer told Anderson, “Stratford is probably the most visited tourist attraction in Great Britain and it is a [...]
