The Bard in Africa: A Proof Test of Universality
Western colonizers thought Shakespeare proved their cultural superiority, but a new book explores what his plays have meant to the colonized.
Category Archives: Book Excerpts
On Being With and Becoming
Two new books on Alexander technique demonstrate both the power and the pitfalls of conveying a hands-on practice in written form.
Mrs. Worthington’s Daughter’s Dilemma
Actors are subject to both the pleasures of imitation and the rigors of an exalted calling—an excerpt from “Letters to a Young Actor.”
From ‘Midsummer’
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
