Another nice post from Liz Woledge at bloggingshakespare.com

Jeffrey Cohen at George Washington U in DC, who’ll be hosting a wonderful event known as the TemFest on December 3 to which everyone should certainly come, has some very stimulating thoughts on teaching King Lear and the heartbreaking final scene of the Kozinstev film.

Makes me think that one of my usual pedagogical responses to Kozinstev’s great film, emphasizing the politics of suffering and collective action, esp in the hovel scene but also in that tableau with Cordelia’s body, may be another way of avoiding the “nothing” at the play’s heart.  Those trapdoors keep opening…

Here’s a link to pictures from another new Tempest, this one by Act II Playhouse in Amber, PA.  Opens tomorrow!

Via bloggingshakespeare.com, here’s an interesting post & slideshow about our young lovers —

Blogging shakespeare

Here’s an image from Cutting Ball’s now-playing San Francisco Tempest, which is set, in director Rob Melrose’s phrase, “in a psychiatrist’s office at the bottom of a swimming pool” —

Thanks to Lang Davison for the link.

Our Norton Tempest has only a slice of Robert Browning’s great poem, “Caliban upon Setebos.”  The rest can be found at this link, and it’s very much worth reading.

Robert Browning, “Caliban upon Setebos” (1864)

I’m looking forward to reading your short papers, which should start rolling into my email inbox any hour now.  As we all get ready for our next meeting, on Oct 19, here’s a link to our special guest Derek Owens’s 2001 book, *Composition and Sustainability*.  The whole text is online.  Read as much as you like, but at least the preface plus the first & last chapters.  (That’s a good model for dipping into a scholarly book, btw — first chapter, then the last, then see what you need from the middle.)

Composition and Sustainability