Monday, February 26, 2024

Masuno, The Art of Simple Living (2019)

Shunmyo Masuno.
The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Zen Buddhist Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy.
Translated by Allison Markin Powell.
New York: Penguin Books, 2019.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition (2021)

Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition.
Retold and Illustrated by Chiroru Kobato.
Translated by Zack Davisson.
Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2021.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Last year I read the translation of the full text version of I Am a Cat :
  • Sōseki Natsume. I Am a Cat. Translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson. Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    My blog post is here.

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Monday, February 19, 2024

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1994)

William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1994.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Twelfth Night :
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Editor: Roger Warren
  • Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
  • Roger Warren edited four additional plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series: Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part Two; Pericles; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
  • Roger Warren. Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Edward Hall and Roger Warren. Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Editor: Stanley Wells
  • Stanley Wells, his website.
  • Stanley Wells (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • Stanley Wells has written and edited many, many books related to Shakespeare. Some of them are described in the Books section of the Stanley Wells website.
  • Stanley Wells, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
  • Wells, Stanley, 1930-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Some Essays and Books about Twelfth Night :
  • Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. London: Routledge, 2015.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Frances E. Dolan. Twelfth Night: Language and Writing. Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing series. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Leslie Hotson. The First Night of 'Twelfth Night'. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold Jenkins, "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," Rice Institute Pamphlet 45, 1959.
    [Google Books.]
    Reprinted in :
    • Kenneth Muir, editor. Shakespeare: The Comedies: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965. John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
      [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. London: Routledge, 2015.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    • Structural Problems In Shakespeare: Lectures and Essays by Harold Jenkins. Edited by E. A. J. Honigmann. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson Learning, 2001 (currently published by Bloomsbury Publishing).
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Shakespeare: English Renaissance Literature, Drama: England during Shakespeare's Time:
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In Our Time:
  • Melvyn Bragg, Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith, "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 Dec 2023.
    • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.

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