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Jan. 22nd, 2007 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I started reading The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum during the Christmas holidays -- Cathy's sister has a copy. After we got back, Cathy got me a copy via interlibrary loan so I could finish it, and I'm about 50 pages from the end. Along the way, I decided I wanted to find a copy of the works in the original spelling. Today at Barnes & Noble, I found out this wasn't as simple a matter as walking in and getting one. Even for just a single volume.
I went home and searched online. Books that seemed at first to be original spelling weren't really, on closer examination. Anybody out there know a one-volume Shakespeare that hasn't been modernized? Until I find one, there's the etext center at the University of Virginia Library, which has kindly provided me with plain text versions of five plays from quartos, and of the First Folio.
(I looked Rosenbaum up, and it turns out he's a right-wing commentator over at Pajamas Media. I'm happy to report I can more or less ignore this while I finish his book.)
So anybody else out there who's looking, now you know where you can at least find some to read. I've downloaded the lot, and will be copying it to my other computers soon (and a backup in my iPod). O, o, o, o.
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I started reading The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum during the Christmas holidays -- Cathy's sister has a copy. After we got back, Cathy got me a copy via interlibrary loan so I could finish it, and I'm about 50 pages from the end. Along the way, I decided I wanted to find a copy of the works in the original spelling. Today at Barnes & Noble, I found out this wasn't as simple a matter as walking in and getting one. Even for just a single volume.
I went home and searched online. Books that seemed at first to be original spelling weren't really, on closer examination. Anybody out there know a one-volume Shakespeare that hasn't been modernized? Until I find one, there's the etext center at the University of Virginia Library, which has kindly provided me with plain text versions of five plays from quartos, and of the First Folio.
(I looked Rosenbaum up, and it turns out he's a right-wing commentator over at Pajamas Media. I'm happy to report I can more or less ignore this while I finish his book.)
So anybody else out there who's looking, now you know where you can at least find some to read. I've downloaded the lot, and will be copying it to my other computers soon (and a backup in my iPod). O, o, o, o.
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