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Flickers from the Past

By On 07/02/2012 · 3 Comments

Once upon a time — more than a decade ago now — I thought I’d be a film maker. As it turned out, I preferred my life as an academic, but today I discovered that two of my short films have been up on Vimeo for a while, thanks to my old D.O.P.’s efforts. Here’s [...]

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Well-Read Plays V

By On 06/02/2012 · 3 Comments

After various disruptions and diversions, here’s the fifth and final part of my series on manuscript annotations in playbooks in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

I thought it would be fitting to finish up with a couple of Shakespearean references. The discovery of a new mention of Shakespeare is, after all, one of the great archival [...]

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Well-Read Plays IV

By On 13/01/2012 · 5 Comments

Resuming my regularly scheduled program: some more playbook marginalia.

This instalment features the kind of readerly annotations that I find most interesting. In previous posts, I looked at marks that appear to be theatrical in origin, or at least treat the text as a script for performance; I also discussed some instances of [...]

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Well-Read Plays III

By On 28/12/2011 · 1 Comment

Some readers, as I had mentioned in the previous post in this series, approached plays in thoroughly un-theatrical ways. In a sense, many of the marks and annotations I described in Part I also speak to a non-dramatic reception: underlinings, marginal crosses, asterisks, and other pointers, and even lines copied out in the [...]

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