Comments on: To read or not to read? http://alifeinbooks.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/to-read-or-not-to-read/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: quescaisje http://alifeinbooks.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/to-read-or-not-to-read/#comment-10 quescaisje Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:25:49 +0000 http://alifeinbooks.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-10 I have an obsession with Shakespeare too. You can give up that book and read the plays or the sonnets again (as I do) or watch them again (BBC complete plays) or listen to them (there is this audio version: The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: 38 Fully-Dramatized Plays. If you have not checked this out this is the best medium for Shakespeare, I find. Since the images are not distracting one). Or maybe the best thing would be to memorize certain parts of it and enact it yourself (I am at that stage now, it is great fun). Or if you have not read any of the following criticism on Shakespeare. They are pretty good: Harold Goddard Marjorie Garber (I am reading it now). Dr. Johnson (there is no single book where all his Shakespeare criticism is collected though. So it is a bit of a hassle). I have an obsession with Shakespeare too.

You can give up that book and read the plays or the sonnets again (as I do) or watch them again (BBC complete plays) or listen to them (there is this audio version: The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: 38 Fully-Dramatized Plays. If you have not checked this out this is the best medium for Shakespeare, I find. Since the images are not distracting one). Or maybe the best thing would be to memorize certain parts of it and enact it yourself (I am at that stage now, it is great fun).

Or if you have not read any of the following criticism on Shakespeare. They are pretty good:
Harold Goddard
Marjorie Garber (I am reading it now).
Dr. Johnson (there is no single book where all his Shakespeare criticism is collected though. So it is a bit of a hassle).

]]> By: Duane http://alifeinbooks.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/to-read-or-not-to-read/#comment-9 Duane Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:48:09 +0000 http://alifeinbooks.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-9 Give in to your addiction, and come join us over on Shakespeare Geek. I think you'll like it :). Which biography are you slogging through? Bryson was good, Greer was too political, Greenblatt was....well, it was fantasy is what it was. I never got to read 1599. http://www.shakespearegeek.com Give in to your addiction, and come join us over on Shakespeare Geek. I think you’ll like it :) .

Which biography are you slogging through? Bryson was good, Greer was too political, Greenblatt was….well, it was fantasy is what it was. I never got to read 1599.

http://www.shakespearegeek.com

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