Mostly Shakespeare

This blog started out as Michael Doherty's Personal Library, containing reviews of books that normally don't get reviewed: basically adult and cult books. It was all just a bit of fun, you understand. But when I embarked on a three-year Shakespeare study, Shakespeare basically took over, which is a good thing.

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Shakespeare Reference in Cat’s Cradle

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My two favorite writers are William Shakespeare and Kurt Vonnegut, and in Cat’s Cradle , Vonnegut includes a Shakespeare reference. Vonnegut...

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Independent Shakespeare Company’s Live At The Porpentine: A Comedy Of Errors

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Shakespeare fans in Los Angeles have long enjoyed Shakespeare in the park, the park being Griffith Park, where Independent Shakespeare Com...

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Much Ado About Nothing (A Noise Within’s 2023 Production) Theatre Review

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As we seem to perhaps finally be coming out of the pandemic, it is the perfect time for a fun comedy. We need it now, don’t we? A Noise Wi...

Friday, January 13, 2023

Shakespeare References in Rock On Film

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Fred Goodman’s Rock On Film: The Movies That Rocked The Big Screen contains a few Shakespeare references. The first is to Romeo And Juliet ...

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Shakespeare References in Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo itself doesn’t contain Shakespeare references, but the book’s introduction does. The edition I read was ed...

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Shakespeare References in Scenes For Young Actors

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Scenes For Young Actors , a book edited by Lorraine Cohen, contains quite a few Shakespeare references. Even the first page, which present...

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Michael Doherty: I started the music blog to let people know about all the good music that is out there. I only review CDs that I like. (This is partly selfish, as I don't want to listen to music I dislike.) Good Things About Bad Movies is about finding something good even in the worst films. I created an index, with a list of all of my blog entries, including Shakespeare entries and music reviews, arranged alphabetically by subject. Here is the link: http://michaeldohertyindex.blogspot.com/

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