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

3 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…

4 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…

4 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).

11 months 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"…

12 months ago