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Posted in "Put money in my purse!", The Tempest on Apr 25th, 2007
I actually started this category, “Put money in my purse,” over at the Catholic writing/fiction/publishing blog I do, but this is almost certainly the better venue for these little kvetches/notices, because what I’m always wanting (and lacking) is money to travel to far away places to see wonderful actors do this or that juicy Shakespeare [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.