Shakespeare Sets Theme of the Weekend
Posted on September 11, 2004
Filed Under Literature, Theater |
This seems to be a weekend all about Shakespeare. A critic with The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, writes Will Power (posted online and to appear in print this coming week) about Shakespeare’s importance.
Meanwhile, in London, The British Library has published online 21 plays by Shakespeare. The versions they published were printed in quarto before the theaters where they were originally performed were closed. Not only are the texts very different from what is considered the modern standard, but there are versions with wide differences separated by only a few years. The library set up a nice interface where you can compare two texts of the same play side-by-side.
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