Escape to the Forest of Arden: Dramaturg’s Notes
When Teddy Rodger asked me to pull some of my favorite nature imagery from the Shakespeare canon for a podcast …
Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Theatrum Mundi
My intro essay for the 14-15 scholar guide at STC. A thankless task, yoking together a disparate and eclectic body …
The Play of History (Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2)
Written for a production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 at STC, starring Stacy Keach as Falstaff. – DL …
Uneasy Heads (Or, Two Men and a Baby Prince)
Written for the STC “Bard Association” Newsletter in February of 2014, on the subject of the two Henry IV plays. It gave …
The Invention of Sex (Measure for Measure)
Written in the Summer of 2013 for a production of Measure for Measure, directed by Jonathan Munby. -DL In 1929’s …
Private Stories, Public Lives
Published in the Fall of 2013 as the introductory essay to a series of scholarly essays on the plays in …
Shakespearean Doublings & Triplings (The Winter’s Tale)
Written for Rebecca Taichman’s production in the Spring of 2013. We adopted the novel (and to my knowledge unprecedented) concept …
The Body Politic (Coriolanus & Wallenstein)
The two repertory productions of Coriolanus and Wallenstein were our most ambitious undertakings of the 2012-13 season. The two plays …
Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests)
Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and “The …
Shakespeare’s English Comedy (THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR)
As Samuel Johnson once observed, The Merry Wives of Windsor “is remarkable for the variety and number of the personages, …
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