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jaeleslie at 07:26pm on 18/04/2004
jaeleslie at 07:26pm on 18/04/2004Some of us were talking about reading up on the APT season before we actually, like, hear the plays. In these environs that is mostly ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
replyhazy and olivia_circe, but anyone else who is interested might as well join in. Since I believe we can all be trusted to break out the relevant portions of the complete Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, Othello, Cymbeline) which we have at our respective fingertips, there remains the matter of tracking down a couple of Irish plays, and maybe even setting a reading schedule. Before the performances would be my natural preference, although I am open to suggestions on that actually.
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is not available at the public library, although they do have a copy of his "Corsican Brothers" in an anthology of Victorian mellerdramas.
J. M. Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" is available at the public library here, in a number of collections, complete works, and sound recording (99 minutes). Also critical essays.
After I turn in the next couple stacks of library books, probably in May, I'll put a hold on it. (I have to get a bunch of short stories out next week for my annual Hugo nominated short-fiction reading).
Neither of these is in stock at Borders, although both are in print and may be ordered there in the $7-$10 range (you can spend an awful lot more money on the Synge if you like). I guess I'll be ordering a copy of the Boucicault.
Not that I am allowed in bookstores you know.
replyhazy and olivia_circe, but anyone else who is interested might as well join in. Since I believe we can all be trusted to break out the relevant portions of the complete Shakespeare (Twelfth Night, Othello, Cymbeline) which we have at our respective fingertips, there remains the matter of tracking down a couple of Irish plays, and maybe even setting a reading schedule. Before the performances would be my natural preference, although I am open to suggestions on that actually. Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is not available at the public library, although they do have a copy of his "Corsican Brothers" in an anthology of Victorian mellerdramas.
J. M. Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" is available at the public library here, in a number of collections, complete works, and sound recording (99 minutes). Also critical essays.
After I turn in the next couple stacks of library books, probably in May, I'll put a hold on it. (I have to get a bunch of short stories out next week for my annual Hugo nominated short-fiction reading).
Neither of these is in stock at Borders, although both are in print and may be ordered there in the $7-$10 range (you can spend an awful lot more money on the Synge if you like). I guess I'll be ordering a copy of the Boucicault.
Not that I am allowed in bookstores you know.