Review Post 47 – Why early retirement rarely works out well
More than twenty months into the life of my little blog, and I’ve just realised that so far there has been nothing by the undisputed king of literature, the Bard of Avon, a man born just down the road...
View Article‘On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets’ Celebration’ (Review)
Saturday marks the quatercentary of Shakespeare’s death, and while I rarely get involved with anything outside the world of fiction in translation these days, there are some events even I can’t ignore....
View Article‘Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare’...
After my recent dalliance with poetry, it’s time to return to fiction, but don’t think that means I’ve left the Shakespeare celebrations behind. Today sees another book commissioned to mark the...
View ArticleShakespeare and Me
Today, as you’re probably aware, marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and while celebrating someone’s demise might seem a little off, I thought it would be nice to mark the day...
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