Shakespeare

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing

Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday

9 months ago
  • Idle Reflections

The Arden Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

On the second series edition of the Arden Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", both this particular 1991 printing as well as…

10 months ago
  • Idle Reflections

Delicious December 2023: Read, Watched

The greatest hits of the last month of December: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz, My Darling…

10 months ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Sumptuously Reading, Watching, Viewing: May 2023

Reading 15th- and 16th-century lit and watching contemporary, 21st-century film. Greatest hits: Heat (1995), Montaigne, Shakespeare (immer wieder).

1 year ago
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

April-Showered Reading, Watching

Rereading Shakespeare, Borges; then reading stories by Walter de la Mare. Re-watching two films by David Lynch—neither being "Blue Velvet"…

2 years ago