Dust in the Wind

Literature & Fiction

Richardson, Donald J.

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1st Book Library

Rails to Light

Rails to Light came about as a result of my reading the book Riding the Rails. I was appalled by the teenagers

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Words Of Truth

The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

As an instructor of English 102, First-Year Composition, for more than seventy-five times, I have read and taught Hamlet repeatedly.  I have come to know the play extensively and, as a result, when we read the play aloud in class I have to stop the students repeatedly to explain various arcane references that are not explained in any single version of the play.  For several years I have threatened to do my own complete version of Hamlet; finally, I have.  The result is The Complete Hamlet:  An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play.  It has taken me years of study and application.  My hope is that the play will, thus, be more accessible to the general reader.

Dramas & Plays

<p>As an instructor of English 102, First-Year Composition, for more than seventy-five times, I have read and taught Hamlet repeatedly. I have come to know the play extensively and, as a result, when we read the play aloud in class I have to stop the students repeatedly to explain various arcane references that are not explained in any single version of the play. For several years I have threatened to do my own complete version of Hamlet; finally, I have. The result is The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play. It has taken me years of study and application. My hope is that the play will, thus, be more accessible to the general reader.</p>

The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

Among teenagers Romeo and Juliet appears to be the most popular of the Shakespeare tragedies. Perhaps this is because of the age of the protagonists. I suspect it is something far deeper than that, however. The depth of passion evinced by both Romeo and Juliet is familiar to most adolescents, and their isolation from the world of adults is also recognized by contemporary teens. Capulet's ranting when dealing with Juliet's nascent independence is no doubt familiar to today's sons and daughters. Thus, it seems Shakespeare continues to speak a universal language; this, I believe, accounts for the continued popularity of the work.

The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition Of The Shakespeare Play

The Complete Julius Caesar: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

<p>Of the five major Shakespearean tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Othello-King Lear is perhaps the most challenging. Issues of rulership, family and blood, are overlaid with bastardy, loyalty, lust, and deceit. Add to this the apparently gratuitous on-stage blinding of Gloucester, the deaths of Cordelia, Lear, Gloucester, and Kent, and one might be inclined to agree with Samuel Johnson that "The good suffer more than the evil, that love and suffering, in this play, are almost interchangeable terms and the driving force of the action is derived from the power of the evil to inflict mental agony upon the good" (quoted in Kermode, 505). However, one would be mistaken to accept wholeheartedly the happy endings of the eighteenth and nineteenth century revisionists. While the pleasant ending would certainly ease the sensibilities of the audience, it would omit the Aristotlean concepts of hamartia and the purgation of fear and pity attendant upon actually witnessing Shakespeare's King Lear, the necessary catharsis, a possible scapegoat for our own emotions. Of course, the ending is to some extent unpleasant and even shocking; however, one can argue that the ending is organic to the play; the ending IS, to a great extent, the play.</p>

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Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind

Rails to Light

Words Of Truth

The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition Of The Shakespeare Play

The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

The Complete Julius Caesar: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

The Complete Julius Caesar: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play