tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195102361160836342.post5797099217828849446..comments2023-12-24T01:50:35.779-05:00Comments on The Fifth Wall: Women on Shakespeare: Laura Hirschberg on Verona WallsAaron Grunfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984978554994244178noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195102361160836342.post-49891645185498407322016-02-27T01:17:57.175-05:002016-02-27T01:17:57.175-05:00You both ought to come meet me some evening at The...You both ought to come meet me some evening at The Players. There you may find (speaking of re-invention) Colley Cibber's version of Richard III that Edwin Booth and almost every actor-manager used until EB restored the original in or about 1866/7; scads of info on 19th c theatre, performance styles, many plays and playwrights from c. 500 BC to the present and Shakes-- the 2nd folio; an old series of softcovers on WS edited by W.C. Bryant, 19th c.-21st c. attitudes about how certain scenes in the plays were or are edited or deleted so as to not offend the delicate senses of women or the religious or picky or scholarly pedants, articles, pictorials and discussions of the plays from a 19th c. POV, so much "your head would spin" (as a certain candidate for the presidency might put it).<br />I'm coming to see Verona's Walls on Thursday.<br />I suppose you already know about "Letters to Juliet," and pix of what many think is her tomb.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477325280603199217noreply@blogger.com