William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Folger Library Edition)
To thine own self be true … William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet is arguably the most famous play ever written in the English language; it presents the world with questions and characters that have been the subject of thespian and scholarly debate ever since the Prince of Denmark’s first appearance on the stage of London’s Globe Theatre. […]
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (gen. eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor)
All the World’s A Stage The 1598 loss of their theater’s lease should have been a major blow to the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, one of Elizabethan England’s premier acting troupes, who had gained even more popularity by teaming up with one Will Shakespeare, a Warwickshire glover’s son come to London some six years earlier in […]
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Vladislav Tamarov: Afghanistan – A Russian Soldier’s Story
Boy soldiers in a war that turned out to be a “mistake” Growing up in Germany and learning about World War II in school and from my parents and grandparents, among the things that impressed me most – that I just couldn’t get out of my mind – were the pictures of those boys drafted […]
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Michael Cox: The Meaning of Night
“For Death is the meaning of night, the eternal shadow into which all lives must fall, all hopes expire.” Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, we learn from this book’s alleged editor (one J.J. Antrobus,* who claims to have discovered the collection of quarto-leaf pages making up the “confession” reproduced herein amidst a series of papers recently left […]
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David Dary: The Santa Fe Trail – Its History, Legends and Lore
The Great Western Highway Francisco Coronado. Juan de Oñate. William Becknell. Kit Carson. Jedediah Smith. Bent’s Old Fort. Fort Union. Fort Larned. Fort Dodge. Raton Pass. Glorieta Pass. Names resounding with history, lore, enterprise, bravery and honor; conjuring up images of treks and trading posts, stagecoaches and scouts, gunfights and gold seekers, cowboys and cavallery […]
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