It's All About Bill

After reading A Midsummer Night's Dream in the very accessible Barnes and Noble annotated paperback (it's way better than carrying around the Riverside Shakespeare), I wanted to read another. My friend Erin and I will be going to see a production of Romeo and Juliet this spring, so I asked if she would like to read that aloud with me. I picked up a couple of B&N Romeo and Juliets, and she came over last Friday to start. What fun! I thought it would take longer, but we got about halfway through in one short sitting. We're just alternating characters. She reads, and then I read whatever character speaks next. I could see doing this with more people very easily. I don't care of Jim does think it's weird.

I am also reading Bryson's little bio of Shakespeare from the Eminent Lives series. I'm not far into it but can tell that Bryson will take up some of the more interesting bits of life during Shakespeare's time and will go down little quirky paths that many biographers would overlook for the main road. Don, I believe you read this in the fall before "the fall." Last night I read that despite the fact that we have almost a million words from Shakespeare, fewer than twenty exist in his own handwriting, and no note or letter by him has survived.