Stefanie C Peters

Two concerns about blogging (0)

9/11/09 •

As regular readers will have noticed from the series of Stratford-upon-Avon themed articles this week, I was in Shakespeare’s hometown last weekend. I attended a conference on “Reviewing Shakespearean Theatre: The State of the Art,” which though it focused on issues surrounding reviews of productions of Shakespeare’s plays, brought out two concerns about blogging.

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Review: As You Like It at the Courtyard Theatre (0)

9/09/09 •

The set is bare, when the audience enters, leaving you to wonder what sort of Arden this is that director Michael Boyd and the RSC designers have created. It changes as the play changes—from court to forest, from winter to summer and desperate hunger and poverty to celebration, from the dark heavy costumes of Elizabethan [...]

Stratford-upon-Avon: A food diary (0)

9/08/09 •

I am always impressed when I visit Stratford-upon-Avon by the quality of the restaurants. As long as you stay away from some of the chains, it is difficult to go wrong. While I would love to spend enough time in Stratford to produce a definitive guide to dining in Shakespeare’s hometown, I thought for my [...]

Why Jane Austen hangs with zombies (1)

7/27/09 •

This is the second of a two-part series. Don’t miss the first article, A history of Jane Austen sequels.

On Friday, I offered a short history of sequels to the novels of Jane Austen and novels that situate themselves in Austen’s “world”; for simplicity’s sake, let’s call them all sequels. I began down that path by [...]