Richardson: 1439 books
The Complete Comedy of Errors
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Perhaps the most comedic of all the Shakespeare plays, The Comedy of Errors, verges on farce with its confused identities, slapstick violence, and confused intentions. This play vociferously demands Coleridges willing suspension of disbelief. As comedy, it resists analysis beyond its structure. Perhaps...
The Complete Love’S Labors Lost
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Loves Labors Lost is widely considered Shakespeares most intellectually challenging comedy (Bate, back cover). From its extensive wordplay to the plot machinations, a reader (viewer) is continuously challenged. The recurrent bawdy is another factor that forces one to pay close attention. Thus, the...
The Complete Taming of the Shrew
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
To a contemporary feminist, The Taming of the Shrew is surely anathema. A strong woman is shown to be easily manipulated and ends up subjugated by a somewhat insensitive and boorish man. Yet, despite the real objections, the play has been popular for centuries in itself, in adaptations (Tamed and...
The Complete Macbeth
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Of the five major Shakespearean tragediesHamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and OthelloMacbeth is in some ways the most accessible. For one it is the shortest. For another the witches continue to attract audiences just as they did during Elizabethan times. In addition he cinematographic...
The Complete Richard Ii
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Richard the Second is essentially weak and vacillating. Self-indulgent and prodigal, he appears to be a natural candidate for overthrow by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke. He is a man who enjoys the trappings of being king but fails to measure up to the responsibilities. Self-pitying and duplicitous,...
The Complete Henry the Eighth
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Despite its title, Henry the Eighth deals with three other, more important stories: the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, the fall of Queen Katherine, and the raising of Anne Bullen (Boleyn). For Elizabethans, the culmination of the play was, of course, the birth of Elizabeth, heralding their queen and her...
by Donald J. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Like many writers, I suppose I have an idealized picture of the past, of my youth, when everything was green and golden and all the calves sang to my huntsmans horn. All the potential was ours, all that mattered was the immediate present, and the future belonged to some non-threatening, never-to-be-achieved...
The Complete Two Gentlemen of Verona
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
The Two Gentlemen of Verona doesnt enjoy a high reputation among Shakespeareans. As an early comedy, it suffers from internal inconsistencies and a questionable resolution. However, having produced and directed a radio version of the play (for WSUI in Iowa City, Iowa), I have partial feelings for...
by Donald J. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Alexandria Hodgeman represents a composite of many people I have known, Catholic and non-Catholic, senior citizens and middle-aged. Her search for definition--for the meaning of her life--I intend as the type of search anyone ought to be pursuing, especially someone who is eighty-nine years old. Her...
The Complete Antony and Cleopatra
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Like Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra is an archetypal love story but of more mature lovers. However, the play isnt only that; it is also an epic rife with political machinations. In addition it is a character study, revealing Antony beset by very human emotions and a tragic weakness, and Cleopatra,...
by Donald J. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Alzheimers continues to be of concern to those of us who are aging. As the disease cannot be prevented, cured, or slowed, it remains one of the leading causes of death. Thus, how one deals with it becomes a measure of personality and character. Perhaps this is what Ernest Hemingway was getting at when he talked of performing with grace under pressure.
The Complete Much Ado About Nothing
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful play which pits two intelligent, thinking people against each other, both of whom protest against love (and each other), but who finally come to embrace the other both literally and emotionally. The contretemps between Beatrice and Benedick is emotionally and...
The Complete Measure for Measure
An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Measure for Measure is usually considered one of [Shakespeares] unpleasant comedies (Asimov, 635) since mercy is offered to the villain (Asimov). The duplicity of the Duke is debatable too, along with the final resolution that offers mercy toward the guilty. Like Alls Well That Ends Well, the play...
by Donald J. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Bernard Frank is a member of an under represented population, someone who is not equipped to take advantage of the traditional way education has been presented in the United States. This does not mean he is unintelligent nor that he lacks insight. Living with his mother during the Great Depression,...