Jess Winfield
Auteur de My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
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Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contributeur — 87 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- Borgeson, Jess
- Date de naissance
- 1961-03-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions
- novelist
playwright
screenwriter - Organisations
- Reduced Shakespeare Company
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 386
- Popularité
- #62,660
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 21
- ISBN
- 14
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- 1
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- 1
Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of . . .
Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs.
Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard’s life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome . . . This, at a time when adherents of the “Old Faith” are being hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors.
Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the “Shakespeare” each is destined to become . . . but the very course of history itself.
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My Review: Tediously moralistic look at how Society tames us by taking hostages.
Heteronormative...shocking, I know...look at Will Shakespeare as horndog, transformed by Time (and parenthood) into...ya know what, if you like this kind of stuff you already know you like it. I don't much. Catholicism is a major vector for evil in this world, there's no denying that to anyone not an apologist; but Catholics ran the risk of horrible deaths in order to enact their fantasy of Religion. On the modern side, academia comes in for a lot of unkind "ribbing" that's meant to make one see that everyone is, at heart, a spoiled brat. These things are crumped together like they're somehow morally equivalent. They are not.
But worst of all, from my personal point of view, is the fact that I had to agree with the author about something:
Stop with the deification already, recognize that there was a man called Shakespeare who wrote a bunch of cool stuff and take the rose-colored glasses off, he did whatever he did in his personal life and we can not speak about it because we don't know. Guessing is misleading, because you're going to think he did what you'd've done. Maybe...maybe not.
I didn't like it; I don't particularly recommend it; but it was not a waste of eyeblinks for that one excellent insight.… (plus d'informations)