Tag Archives: shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE AND WILD GEESE”I, also, want to use one of the Fool’s lines as a title for something — ‘Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.’ Can’t think how to shorten it. “Is there any connection between wild geese and Lady Wildgoose? Lady W and her sister Lady Sandy tried, inContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”

WHY SO MANY PRODUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS UNTIL AFTER WORLD WAR I WERE SO-CALLED TRADITONAL PRODUCTIONS”It used to fire my imagination when I realized that our stage ‘business’ was derived from the actual business used in Shakespeare’s time. Benson played with Irving, who had in his company an actor who had played with Kean. HeContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”

SHAKESPEARE’S MANUSCRIPTS”Not a single Shakespeare manuscript survives, so, as withChaucer, we cannot be sure how closely the work we know is really Shakespeare’s. Hemming and Condell consulted any number of sources to produce their folio — printers’ manuscripts, actors’ promptbooks, even the memoriers of other actors. But from what happened to the work of otherContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”