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"We might be better off with public readings of Shakespeare," says Harold Bloom in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. "Ideally, of course, Shakespeare should be acted, but since he is now almost invariably poorly directed and inadequately played, it might be better to hear him well than see him badly." Not being able to judge the quality of current Shakespearean performances as the erudite Bloom, I suffer more from a dearth of Shakespeare here in the French countryside.

While we cannot always find such public readings, we can listen to recorded, dramatized versions of the plays, as with this set of Shakespeare's 38 plays. With a cast of hundreds, most actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, these works come alive through a skillful combination of reading, sound effects and music. As radio used to do when dramatizing works, the Arkangel set gives you the acting and the atmosphere. While one may be a bit irked by the "original" music, a sort of Coltrane-inspired Elizabethan music--why didn't they use actual music of the period, including that composed for Shakespeare's plays?--the overall production quality is about as good as it gets.]]> http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/20/review-the-complete-arkangel-shakespeare-on-cd/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/18/book-review-treasury-of-the-true-dharma-eye-zen-master-dogens-shobo-genzo/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/18/book-review-treasury-of-the-true-dharma-eye-zen-master-dogens-shobo-genzo/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:27:40 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1893 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/18/book-review-treasury-of-the-true-dharma-eye-zen-master-dogens-shobo-genzo/feed/ 2 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/17/coming-soon-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/17/coming-soon-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:57:19 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2740 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/17/coming-soon-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:00:29 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2731 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/feed/ 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:56:24 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1156 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/16/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/feed/ 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/02/writing-a-novel-for-nanowrimo-get-my-take-control-of-scrivener-book-at-half-price/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/02/writing-a-novel-for-nanowrimo-get-my-take-control-of-scrivener-book-at-half-price/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:28:23 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2524 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/02/writing-a-novel-for-nanowrimo-get-my-take-control-of-scrivener-book-at-half-price/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/23/thoughts-on-reading-proust-again/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/23/thoughts-on-reading-proust-again/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:17:49 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2473 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/23/thoughts-on-reading-proust-again/feed/ 3 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-due-in-a-few-days/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-due-in-a-few-days/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:06:12 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2467 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-due-in-a-few-days/feed/ 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/16/book-bargain-oxford-history-of-western-music/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/16/book-bargain-oxford-history-of-western-music/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:24:33 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2448 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/10/16/book-bargain-oxford-history-of-western-music/feed/ 3 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/09/25/weekend-read-how-proust-can-change-your-life/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/09/25/weekend-read-how-proust-can-change-your-life/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:34:00 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=2159 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/09/25/weekend-read-how-proust-can-change-your-life/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/08/20/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/08/20/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:59:29 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1178 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/08/20/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/07/16/book-review-the-quotable-thoreau/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/07/16/book-review-the-quotable-thoreau/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:23:40 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1923 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/07/16/book-review-the-quotable-thoreau/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/05/12/my-latest-book-take-control-of-scrivener-2/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/05/12/my-latest-book-take-control-of-scrivener-2/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 14:17:59 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1817 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/05/12/my-latest-book-take-control-of-scrivener-2/feed/ 7