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On Influence, Influenza and Outright Thievery
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about this aphorism. It seems to have as many originators as it does permutations. The gist of it is, “good writers borrow; great writers steal.”I first heard it from...
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Love Poems For Valentine's Day: Guaranteed To Throw Sparks Or Your Money Back.
For some people Valentine's Day is easy. They sow Necco Sweethearts like grass seed, believing each little saying imprinted on each little pastel-tinted heart to be meaningful if not oracular. Then...
View ArticleKids Look for these Special Events Coming to the Library Soon! You Don’t Want...
Saturday, April 17th at 2pmBe a Puppeteer! Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 2pm in the Robin Bush Room. Children 5-12 years will create fluorescent paper hand puppets and perform behind a black light puppet...
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STARTING SHAKESPEARE
(FREE BEAR INCLUDED IN EACH BOOK) The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard / Gregory Rogers In modern London a boy kicks a soccer ball into an abandoned theater, when he goes in to get it he...
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INSULTING SHAKESPEARE
or, Toads, Beetles, Bats, Light on You! Kids: It’s time to improve your vocabulary! In addition to them many words* and phrases** that William Shakespeare added to the English language, he was also...
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SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN
Or, Much to Do While You Wait Upon a Live PerformanceSuccessful producer and playwright William Shakespeare composed his plays for a large audience. The Globe Theater could hold several thousand people...
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Kids Shake it up with Shakespeare!
Monday, April 26th 4:30pm“Shakespeare for Kids” a play featuring live actors presented by Hampstead Theatre Company takes place on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 4:30pm in the Robin Bush Room. Audience...
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WORKING FOR WILL
What would it be like?We know a lot about William Shakespeare. We have the text of most all of his plays, we have baptismal records, a will, and other legal documents, and we also have attacks,...
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April & Shakespeare
As far as I can tell, no one has ever declared April to be International Shakespeare Month, but I think they should. Most people agree that he was the most important playwright in the history of the...
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Star Wars by way of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher combines the classic style of Shakespeare with George Lucas's Star Wars episode IV: A New Hope. Wait! Don't write it off too quickly. As quirky as it...
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Book Hunters in Brief #105: Shakespearean Spin-Offs
If nothing else, you have to admire the courage of a writer who can look at one of the acknowledged masterworks of perhaps the greatest single body of work in the western canon--Hamlet, The Winter's...
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Hamlet in America
My neighborhood book club just read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski. It's a retelling of Hamlet, set in America, and the hero, Edgar, is a mute teenager, whose family raises and trains...
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On Influence, Influenza and Outright Thievery
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about this aphorism. It seems to have as many originators as it does permutations. The gist of it is, “good writers borrow; great writers steal.”I first heard it from...
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