I am glad that I have ended my revisal of this dreadful scene. It is not to be endured — Samuel Johnson, Othello [Desdemona. But half an hour! Othello. Being done, there is no pause. Des. But while I say one prayer! Oth. It is too late. Smothers her.] I was impressed for the ten [...]
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Richard III: Receiving emergency care after mauling by Shakespeare — by Robert Fripp
Posted in 17th century, biography, book history, Costume drama, European Renaissance, historical fiction, history play, Plays, political novels/films, politics, Renaissance, romance, satire, Theater, Wm Shakespeare, tagged history, libya, Renaissance history, Robert Fripp on March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Robert Fripp’s website Dear readers and friends, I am honored and delighted to have a guest blogger today. Robert Fripp, the author of Dark Sovereign, a thoroughly researched play that does justice to Richard III. Robert came across my blog-review of the WSC’s production of Richard III: WSC Richard III: a parable about politicians. He [...]
Graphic Novels: Audrey Niffenegger, Posy Simmonds among other treasures
Posted in book history, comic poetry, girls books, novels of sensibility, romance, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Audrey Niffenegger, elizabeth gaskell, Gemma Bovary, graphic novels, Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe on January 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Beth Hardiman, from Tamara Drewe Alexandra, from The Night Bookmobile Dear friends and readers, A couple of years ago now I became aware of how graphic novels have grown up; they are no longer fancied up comic books; the art and words can be as complex and moving as many a sheer verbal longer novel. [...]
EC/ASECS Conference on Liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: Thomson, the black Mozart, Edgeworth/Behn
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 18th century poetry, book history, conference report, Conferences, feminism, French novels, mozart, Music, women's novels, tagged aphra behn, book illustrations, heroine's text, james thomson, Joseph Bologne, maria edgeworth on November 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Temple of the Muses, Scotland, dedicated to James Thomson, author of The Seasons Dear friends and readers, My third and last blog report on our East Central Region meeting on the theme of liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: late Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning. This last afternoon I heard a [...]
Books in art and science: Sharp (3): community identities through books (Australia, South Africa, in libraries); book illustration (Phiz & Millais)
Posted in 20th century culture, book history, Charles Dickens, conference report, Conferences, library books, museums, politics, Uncategorized, tagged book illustrations, libraries, maori, Millais, Prix Formentor, Prix International on July 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Children’s reading club, circa 1910, Children’s Museum, NY or NJ Dear friends and readers, A third instalment of my experience of the Sharp conference last weekend. What unites these sessions is the belief that people form social identities through reading books and magazines and create social networks and capital (Bourdieu’s term) by setting up and [...]
Books in art and science, Sharp (2): the role of covers, periodicals (Romantic era); Mudie’s non-English and Murray’s travel books
Posted in 20th century culture, Austen, biography, book history, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, French novels, gothic, Regency Romantic literature, Travel Writing, women's art, tagged John Murray, julia kavanagh, monthly periodicals, Mudies Library on July 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The picture gracing the cover of Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women Writers, 1872-1926, edd. Catherine Lundie Dear friends and readers, I continue my tales of my time at this summer’s Sharp conference. I here cover three sessions, two on the first Friday afternoon and the first of four all day Saturday. My topics [...]
Books in art and science, Sharp (1):the 1st folio; science books as school; Nazi non-censorship! and dire predictions
Posted in 20th century culture, book history, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, museums, political novels/films, politics, Trollope, tagged First folio, folger, Llbrary of congress, Shaprp conference on July 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
‘”That might do”‘ (John Everett Millais’s illustration for a satiric scene in Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington Thomas Bewick’s History of Birds Dear friends and readers, I’ve just spent a pleasant and stimulating 3 and 1/2 days at a Sharp conference held in Washington, D.C. first at the National Library of Medicine (Maryland), [...]
