LIVING THE SHAKESPEAREAN LIFE True Stories

Edited with an introduction  by John Boe 

paperback / $19.95 / isbn: 978-1-58790-500-1 / 266 pages /7” x 10" / illustrated

e-book / $9.95 / isbn: 978-1-58790-501-8

Shakespeare /  Acting / Biography

About the Book

Living the Shakespearean Life: True Stories is a collection of oral histories from eminent Shakespeare scholars, directors, and actors in England and America. They talk about the full range of their Shakespearean lives, including how they first became interested in Shakespeare, what they have learned from Shakespeare, what the Shakespearean is, what Shakespeare might have been like, and specific lines, plays, and characters. This book is for anyone who loves Shakespeare.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Boe received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Lecturer Emeritus at UC Davis, where he taught for thirty years and edited the journal Writing on the Edge (WOE). He recently co-edited Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989-2017. He has published various articles on Shakespeare, including two included in his collection Life Itself: Messiness is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays: “To Kill Mercutio: Thoughts on Shakespeare’s Psychological Development” and “The Introvert in Shakespeare.” He also wrote about Cymbeline for the Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare. He won First Prize in the 1991 H.R. Roberts Literary Awards, Informal Essay category, and has won teaching prizes from UC Davis and Phi Beta Kappa.