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Over the holidays, I started reading, one play at a time, the works of William Shakespeare, figuring that I ought to get around to reading what I was supposed to have read in high school and college … but, of course, didn’t. I started with…

Review of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and a shout out to Project Gutenberg

January 8, 2023

Yesterday, I finished Hamlet’s Dresser: A Memoir, written by Bob Smith who was a dresser/aide for Shakespearean actors including Katherine Hepburn among others. At some point, he starting reading Shakespeare to senior citizens, getting them to appreciate the beauty and complexity of Shakespeare. I picked…

A Shakespearean Memoir: Review of Hamlet’s Dresser by Bob Smith

December 29, 2016

Imagine the world as you know it, whether as techno-commercialist, an antiquarian yesteryear, a back to the earth environmentalist, or simply as a bookworm visiting a relative in a hospital curled up in a waiting room with a good book and without warning everyone…

World-Ending Fiction: A Review of Station Eleven

October 4, 2015