To The Globe to visit the exhibition and then watch Taming of the Shrew as a groundling. Great fun.
However, my relationship with the Bard's works has always been a complicated one. Over time, I will try to develop some of my thoughts, inspirations and reservations here.
For now, some others' more interesting observations:
- According to Harold Bloom, Shakespeare invented modern humanity. If this seems to go too far, he at least captured human complexity with greater inventive skill than any English writer before him, and possibly after.
- Approaching Shakespeare – Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio -Emma Smith, Oxford
- Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays – Free Course in Multiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
- Shakespeare’s Principal Plays - Free iTunes Audio – Free Online Audio - Ralph Williams, University of Michigan
- Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays - Free Online Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
- Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre –Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Multiple profs, Oxford
- Shakespeare - Free iTunes Audio - Free Online Audio - Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
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Read All of Shakespeare’s Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
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What Shakespeare Sounded Like to Shakespeare: Reconstructing the Bard’s Original Pronunciation
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