Shakespeare

[Karl Henning]

That's the one. It's an enjoyable romp.

Love it!

[Karl Henning]

I've begun reading The Winters Tale, a play I've ignored until now.  It is a late play and considered among his best, but not often staged.  My recent interest was sparked by a YouTube of an individual's ranking of the plays. 

Pretty good commentary.

Like The Tempest, a play which it is high time I approached.

[Mandryka]

I'm about to take a 12 hour course on Hamlet.

Any good recent books published about it? New ideas etc?

[SimonNZ]

I'm about to take a 12 hour course on Hamlet.

Any good recent books published about it? New ideas etc?

I haven't yet read it (or even found a copy), but I know Martin Dodsworth's Hamlet Closely Observed is spoken of as a classic.



That's 1985, but I don't think this is the kind of subject where more recent means superior or an advance. except in exceptional circumstances. There may be more recent journal articles on, say, what computer analysis of the text has suggested about this or that.

[Madiel]

I don't get why you'd need a book when taking a course. Surely the purpose of the course is the same as reading a good book?

[SimonNZ]

I don't get why you'd need a book when taking a course. Surely the purpose of the course is the same as reading a good book?

Well...courses do usually have required reading lists. And even if they don't have tests or essays to write to pass they'd still have suggested reading lists.

[JBS]

The play's the thing...


I found the critical essays vastly helped me when I first read it in school.

Of course, the version I used was the first edition, from the 1970s. I can't speak about anything added in the second edition.

[Madiel]

Well...courses do usually have required reading lists. And even if they don't have tests or essays to write to pass they'd still have suggested reading lists.

Yes, but those of things, the course tells you about the books.

Anyway.

[Mandryka]

I haven't yet read it (or even found a copy), but I know Martin Dodsworth's Hamlet Closely Observed is spoken of as a classic.



That's 1985, but I don't think this is the kind of subject where more recent means superior or an advance. except in exceptional circumstances. There may be more recent journal articles on, say, what computer analysis of the text has suggested about this or that.

Ah -- I know of Dodsworth because he wrote a good essay on John Berryman. I'll see if my college library has a copy, if so there'll be a way I can wangle it out.

[Mandryka]

The play's the thing...


I found the critical essays vastly helped me when I first read it in school.

Of course, the version I used was the first edition, from the 1970s. I can't speak about anything added in the second edition.

I didn't know there was a Norton Critical Edition.