Showing posts with label William Shakespeare without the boring bits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Shakespeare without the boring bits. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

THE DEVIL DAMN THEE BLACK, THOU CREAM-FACED LOON!






WHERE GOT’ST THOU THAT GOOSE LOOK?

I was introduced to Shakespeare by my high school English teacher, Miss Long, back in the late 1950’s.   She required us to read The Comedy of Errors; and I waded my way through, though not understanding form or meter. 

For years I have had The Complete Work, with the intention of someday reading more; but so far that has amounted to two histories, three tragedies and four comedies.  (Love’s Labour’s Lost)

I recently purchased William Shakespeare without the boring bits, commentaries by Peter Ackroyd.  




It is an excellent read to refresh myself with the works I have read, and to introduce, in compact form, works I may (or may not) want to read.

and nothing is but what is not.
the Ol’Buzzard