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  All's Well That Ends Well

  William Shakespeare

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  A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts. 
  Desperately in love with Bertram, the son of a Spanish countess, Helena schemes with the virginal Diana to fulfill Bertram’s stipulations and win his love. As Bertram’s infidelity and Helena’s deceits are revealed, the estranged lovers reunite, but the audience is left to wonder if, in love, the end justifies the means.

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  Shakespeare's Philosophy -...

  Colin McGinn

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  Shakespeare’s plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare’s greatest plays–A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.  In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare’s philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy.As McGinn says about Shakespeare, “There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgment of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet.” McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.

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  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Robert Bridges

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  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.”  (Summary by Bartleby)Editor: Robert S. Bridges (1844-1930)

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  Applause - Poems

  Carol Muske-Dukes

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  National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applauseApplause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In “Dream,” she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. “The Eulogy” paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. “What a strange phenomenon,” she says, “to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one’s anonymity.”

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  Tituba (NHB Modern Plays)

  Winsome Pinnock

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  Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
  The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
  Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Rose Lewenstein, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.

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  Space and Time Magazine Issue...

  Angela Yuriko Smith, Denny E...

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  Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale. 
  Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jack Ketchum by Soraya Murillo Hernandez has been translated to celebrate his birthday November 10. Daniel M. Kimmel remembers the cult classic sci-fi movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. 
  All edited music used in Space and Time Magazine Issue #134 are: 
  Music from youtube.com 
  NCAL - No Copyright Audio Library 
  Fun_House - By Coyote Hearing 
  Music from Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) 
  The Nymphaeum Part V 
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 
  Music from http://dig.ccmixter.org 
  Gimin by Nethis 
  (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. 
  Music from https://filmmusic.io 
  "Private Reflection" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Gathering Darkness" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Relaxing Piano Music" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Half Mystery" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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