I've added the linksFrom: Ariel Fe
To whom it may concern.
First of all, as an audiobook-fan, I just want to say your work is a blessing.
It has allowed me to go through so much material!
As a student of dramaturgy I believe there’s a need for Shakespearean scholarship in audio form.
I’ve even written to audio publishers pointing it out, letting them know that most of the scholars are long gone
and their work is in the public domain. Two good examples are:
William Hazlitt (1778 –1830) ‘Characters of Shakespeare's Plays’ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5085 COMPLETED
(You’ve recorded "Romeo and Juliet" from this book. THANK YOU!)
A.C. Bradley (1851–1935) ‘Shakespearean Tragedy.’ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16966
This last one, largely considered a classic in the subject, is available at gutenbergproject.org if you care to look it up.
From Wikipedia:
"Though Bradley has sometimes been criticized for writing of Shakespeare's characters as though they were real people, his book is probably the most influential single work of Shakespearean criticism ever published. Bradley's influence is perhaps better deserved than later critics acknowledge, for his readings of Shakespeare demonstrate an exquisite moral perceptiveness. For example, Bradley's treatment of Hamlet in Shakespearean Tragedy is an excellent corrective to the over-dreamy picture of Hamlet we inherit from the Romantics, for Bradley shows why Hamlet is not merely a soft contemplative, incapable action, but a truly great-souled figure, worthy of tragedy. Such appreciative criticism can be quite helpful to readers who are looking to understand what Shakespeare himself wrote and meant. Shakespearean Tragedy has been reprinted more than two dozen times and is itself the subject of a scholarly book, Katherine Cooke's A. C. Bradley and His Influence in Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism."
Please, put someone in front of microphone to read it! It’s only three-hundred pages long. Please consider these suggestions and know that the public—especially students and professors—needs more than just Shakespeare’s biographies, which seem to pop like mushrooms almost every year. I’d be doing a great service to the literary community.
Thank you very much. Sincerely, Ariel Fe
Anne