In the January 11,
1993 issue of The New Yorker, there
is a Shakespeare reference. In a long piece titled “A Lost Childhood,” author
Susan Sheehan includes a Shakespeare reference. Sheehan writes, “Crystal didn’t
do her homework, but once, when she was assigned by an English teacher to read
a play of Shakespeare’s (‘That language was too much of a drag, there was too
many complications,’ she says), she went to a movie theatre to see ‘Macbeth’
instead. ‘I remember witches and a witch killed a man or a man killed a witch,’
she says. ‘It was O.K., but it was corny. It was nothing like as good as “The
Wizard of Oz”’” (Page 65).
In the March/April
2013 issue of Westways, there is an article about Utah. In the small section of
things to do there, the writer includes this: “The Utah Shakespeare Festival
(June 24-October 19) ranks among the world’s best” (page 31).
The June 2001 issue
of The Writer has a couple of
references to Shakespeare. The first is in a profile piece on writer Sherman
Alexie. Alexie is quoted as saying, “Every theme, every story, every tragedy
that exists in literature takes place in my little community. Hamlet takes place on my reservation
daily. King Lear takes place on my
reservation daily. It’s a powerful place. I’m never going to run out of
stories” (page 29). Part of that quotation is included again on page 30 (see
photo). The second Shakespeare reference is simply a mention of a famous
bookstore in Paris: “Shakespeare and Company in Paris, a refuge for Hemingway
and other Lost Generation members, comes quickly to mind” (page 52).
In the August 2007
issue of The Writer there is a
reference to Shakespeare. In a short piece on Abraham Lincoln, Chuck Leddy
writes: “Books were scarce during Lincoln’s childhood, but when he got his
hands on one, he devoured it, copying out passages by hand and memorizing them.
Thus, the cadences and vocabulary of the Bible and Shakespeare flowed deep
within him.”
The August 2008 issue
of The Writer also contains
references to Shakespeare. In an article titled “How to create emotional
landscapes,” Marilyn Taylor writes, “For example, no one could mistake
Shakespeare’s tone when he wrote, ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!’”
In the next paragraph, Taylor writes, “Shakespeare, of course, could easily
have had his King Richard mumble, ‘I’d really like to have a horse right now’”
(Page 15). Then in a piece titled “Make Your Readers Stick Around,” John Edward
Ames writes, “Shakespeare claimed he ‘never blotted a line,’ while Gustave
Flaubert didn’t stop polishing the manuscript until his publishers pried it
from his ink-stained fingers” (page 34).