a novel by Debra Murphy. Book One of The Ashland Grail Cycle
Posted in Iago, Shakespeare on Apr 23rd, 2008
Ever since I began writing The Mystery of Things, I’ve had a fascination for Shakespeare’s villains in general and Iago in particular. It’s the “why?” question, as Dan Donohue, one of our favorite actors, points out in a lively and revealing interview on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website called “Playing Iago.”
My favorite quote, besides “You’ll [...]
Posted in Iago on Jun 18th, 2007
A friend of mine from our local mythopoeic book group just put me on to this “social networking” sight for bibliophiles: Goodreads.com. It’s a great place to list the books you read and recommend books to others.
I just signed on and my profile is here. If you join up, I would enjoy being added as [...]
Posted in Shakespeare on May 31st, 2007
A good friend of my son’s is across the pond, as they say, studying abroad in London. As a theater major, she’s doing some exhaustive “homework” taking in a whole slew of London stage productions. Naked Harry Potter, for one (Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus) to which Rachael reports that “he’s definitely growing up.”
A [...]
Posted in Shakespeare on Mar 29th, 2007
…in a sauna.
I’m not kidding.
This is a perfectly outrageous clip from Dame Edna’s show, filmed around the time of the release of Mel’s Hamlet, and posted on Mel’s MySpace page:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=98949622
And in case you missed it, here’s our bardolatry review of Mel’s Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, which I wrote back in 2002 or thereabouts.
And if [...]
Posted in Iago on Mar 27th, 2006
Several folks have written off and offline to ask for my self-described (from the previous post) “l-o-n-g” Catholic fiction reading list. I’m organizing that as we speak, and will post it anon.
In the meantime, bop over to the National Catholic Register online to read Tim Drake’s article Catholic Literary Revival?. It was a huge thrill [...]
The myth of St. George and the Dragon comes to new and provocative life in this mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.