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2012 – Lioness at Large

Year: 2012

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Jane Austen: Persuasion

The 2012 Buddy Read This was a buddy read in the context of a private discussion group; I’ll therefore only include my own comments in full, and redacted / anonymized versions of the comments of others, to the extent relevant.  Quotes not italicized and not attributed to a participant of the buddy read are, unless […]

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Elizabeth von Arnim: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

The 2012 Buddy Read This was a buddy read in the context of a private discussion group; I’ll therefore only include my own comments in full, and redacted / anonymized versions of the comments of others, to the extent relevant.  Quotes not italicized and not attributed to a participant of the buddy read are, unless […]

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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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The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (BBC)

The Gold Standard In 1978, the BBC ambitiously set out to produce all of Shakespeare‘s 37 plays for television. (Alright – so it’s 38 … so they didn’t include The Two Noble Kinsmen, which is cribbed from Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale anyway. But who’s counting beans?) With casts featuring the better part of British acting nobility, […]

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