A Notebook on William Shakespeare (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Jane McDowell Audible Studios Books
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This book may be described as Dame Edith Sitwell's personal notebook. It consists of essays on the subject of the general aspect of the plays-those great hymns to the principle and the glory of life, in which there are the same differences in nature, in matter, in light, in darkness, in movement, that we find in the universe, and in which the characters are so vast they seem each an element (Water, Hamlet; Air, Romeo and Juliet; Fire, King Lear) and which yet bear the stamp of our common humanity, made greater and more universal. There are long essays on King Lear, Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet.
Dame Edith believes, with all humility, that she has discovered new sources of the inspiration of King Lear, throwing a new light on the whole play, and giving new meanings to the mad scenes, of an unsurpassable grandeur, depth, and terror. There are shorter essays also on other of the tragedies. The keynotes of many of the plays are examined (not all the plays are discussed), a phrase is studied and will be found to hold the whole meaning of the play. There are essays on many of the comedies, and long passages about the Fools and Clowns. Connecting levels are traced between the philosophies of the plays. There are, too, running commentaries on Shakespeare as that 'common-kissing Titan', and, since the audiobook is a personal notebook, the author makes copious quotations from the writings of Shakespearean scholars who have thrown light on the various aspects of which she treats, and from works on other subjects which also serve to illumine his mighty and many-sided genius.
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry.
A Notebook on William Shakespeare (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Jane McDowell Audible Studios Books
If you like Shakespeare, I don't think you can do much better than this book for an in depth analysis of the poetry in his plays.Edith Sitwell... I mean I don't want to talk in hyperbolic platitudes or whatever, but I will say that I've learned a tremendous amount
from reading her writings about poetry; in particular her meticulous explanations and elucidations of the sonic elements--for instance the various types of assonantal and dissonantal relationships between syllables and the subtle differences and similarities between the shading of sounds (things I didn't know much about despite having taken a poetry class in college)--are invaluable. And this notebook on Shakespeare is highly recommended.
Also, it should be noted that this is a completely different book from her "A Poet's Notebook," which is also available (and is also a fine book).
It's slightly confusing because A Poet's Notebook does have an approximately 70 page chapter called "Notes on Shakespeare," which starts of with very similar wording to the beginning of A Notebook on William Shakespeare, and at first I wasn't sure if these were just different editions of the same book. A Notebook on William Shakespeare has a lot more material though, about 300+ pages solely devoted to Shakespeare. Actually the first words of the Notebook on William Shakespeare do look very much like the start of the Notes on Shakespeare chapter in A Poet's Notebook, however if you look closely you can see that it's updated and begins to diverge almost immediately. If I'm not mistaken A Notebook on William Shakespeare was published 7 years after A Poet's Notebook.
Anyhow, BOTH books are worth owning. A Poet's Notebook is about 250-300 pages, and has a lot of material on various great English poet's and really gets into some of the Old English poetry and it's roots, and analyzes poems in their Old English forms (Chaucer, Browning, etc). Super interesting I thought. And then it also has the 70 page chapter of Notes on Shakespeare. A Notebook on William Shakespeare, meanwhile, is 300+ pages of just solid notes on Shakespeare, and contains extensive analysis of a bunch of plays and material not contained in the other book. I definitely recommend getting both and I'd also recommend the audible versions as well to go along with them, they are very nicely narrated by a lady who seems to deeply understand everything she is reading and is very pleasant to listen to.
Cheers.
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A Notebook on William Shakespeare (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Jane McDowell Audible Studios Books Reviews
If you like Shakespeare, I don't think you can do much better than this book for an in depth analysis of the poetry in his plays.
Edith Sitwell... I mean I don't want to talk in hyperbolic platitudes or whatever, but I will say that I've learned a tremendous amount
from reading her writings about poetry; in particular her meticulous explanations and elucidations of the sonic elements--for instance the various types of assonantal and dissonantal relationships between syllables and the subtle differences and similarities between the shading of sounds (things I didn't know much about despite having taken a poetry class in college)--are invaluable. And this notebook on Shakespeare is highly recommended.
Also, it should be noted that this is a completely different book from her "A Poet's Notebook," which is also available (and is also a fine book).
It's slightly confusing because A Poet's Notebook does have an approximately 70 page chapter called "Notes on Shakespeare," which starts of with very similar wording to the beginning of A Notebook on William Shakespeare, and at first I wasn't sure if these were just different editions of the same book. A Notebook on William Shakespeare has a lot more material though, about 300+ pages solely devoted to Shakespeare. Actually the first words of the Notebook on William Shakespeare do look very much like the start of the Notes on Shakespeare chapter in A Poet's Notebook, however if you look closely you can see that it's updated and begins to diverge almost immediately. If I'm not mistaken A Notebook on William Shakespeare was published 7 years after A Poet's Notebook.
Anyhow, BOTH books are worth owning. A Poet's Notebook is about 250-300 pages, and has a lot of material on various great English poet's and really gets into some of the Old English poetry and it's roots, and analyzes poems in their Old English forms (Chaucer, Browning, etc). Super interesting I thought. And then it also has the 70 page chapter of Notes on Shakespeare. A Notebook on William Shakespeare, meanwhile, is 300+ pages of just solid notes on Shakespeare, and contains extensive analysis of a bunch of plays and material not contained in the other book. I definitely recommend getting both and I'd also recommend the audible versions as well to go along with them, they are very nicely narrated by a lady who seems to deeply understand everything she is reading and is very pleasant to listen to.
Cheers.
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