Now I‘m not a great Shakespeare fan but the reading room at the Folger Shakespeare Library In Washington is just magnificent.
Betty I lived in metro DC 7 years aeons ago; I regret not visiting Folger‘s. 5y
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Shakespeare After All | 
Now I‘m not a great Shakespeare fan but the reading room at the Folger Shakespeare Library In Washington is just magnificent.
Right, then. I dismantled Christmas this afternoon; the tree is back in the garden and the living room looks downright disconsolate. It's high time I caught up with Shakespeare.
#ShakespeareReadalong
#bookmail brought Shakespeare After All, a new addition to my Shakespeare collection!
I have a compulsion when it comes to good Shakespeare reference books.
Thanks for putting this on my radar @saresmoore
It occurred to me that there's a Shakespeare-sized hole in my reading. I'm going to start with King Lear because I vaguely remember it from school.
On a preliminary flick through the Garber book looks great. The cover has an unusual finish, though: it's not altogether agreeable. (*Tut*, me and my snowflake sensibilities!)
“If we consider all this [that happens in Pericles], we will realize that dramatic romance, or, as it was known then, tragicomedy, cannot and ought not to be judged exclusively by its realism or its social commentary. Romance speaks about society by speaking about poetry, art, dream, and transcendence—and about the quest of the individual, as human being and as art-maker, for identity and for eternity.”
Marjorie Garber's essay on Hamlet. I admire the elegance & #force of her arguments. Chillingly relevant. Not just about Trump in the US -- although that man is like the black hole of language; he is where meaning goes to die. But all over the world this is how politics is played. Although I usually read nonfiction, this year I found myself avoiding nonfic & seeking out more fiction & poetry. Not sure if that's entirely good. #QuotsyDec17 @TK-421
pickFantastic reference book to know more or undestand better each and every play the Bard wrote. Garber is a legendary Harvard professor and this book is based on the course she teaches there on Shakespeare, which is one of the most popular classes in the whole school.
