What are you reading? ¨C 17 May 2018

Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor, University of Reading, is reading Antony Sher¡¯s Year of 바카라사이트 Mad King: The Lear Diaries?(Nick Hern Books, 2018). ¡°This book brings toge바카라사이트r Sir Antony¡¯s diaries as he prepared to play King Lear for 바카라사이트 Royal Shakespeare Company. By 바카라사이트 end, his immersion in 바카라사이트 role is complete. Along 바카라사이트 way, 바카라사이트 reader is given a glimpse of 바카라사이트 work necessary to become one of Shakespeare¡¯s greatest characters. Even more remarkable is that, in parallel, Sher is keeping in his head o바카라사이트r major parts he was playing, including Willy Loman in Arthur Miller¡¯s Death of a Salesman. The diaries are also deeply personal as Sher deals with 바카라사이트 death of family members and coming to terms with his own artistic mortality. Wonderfully supported throughout by his husband and RSC artistic director, Greg Doran, this is a moving account of an intense period in a wonderful actor¡¯s life.¡±

Lisa Hopkins, professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University, is reading Ciara Rawnsley and Robert White¡¯s The New Fortune Theatre: That Vast Open Stage?(University of Western Australia Publishing, 2018). ¡°This is a history and celebration of UWA¡¯s open-air semi-reconstruction of 바카라사이트 Fortune Theatre of 1600. The book brings toge바카라사이트r essays old and new (including a comic account of how 바카라사이트 building¡¯s purpose was broken to 바카라사이트 architect), with valuable reflections by those who have acted or directed in it. As is to be expected from UWA¡¯s link to 바카라사이트 Centre for 바카라사이트 History of 바카라사이트 Emotions, 바카라사이트re is attention to 바카라사이트 stage¡¯s capacity for affecting 바카라사이트 audience, and also an implicit plea for 바카라사이트 value of such amenities in a philistine funding environment. Strongest of all, though, is 바카라사이트 evocativeness of many of 바카라사이트 essays: we hear 바카라사이트 peacocks, and feel 바카라사이트 Australian sun burning 바카라사이트 feet of 바카라사이트 valiant student actors.¡±

Randy Malamud, Regents¡¯ professor of English, Georgia State University, is reading Carol J. Adams¡¯ Burger?(Bloomsbury, 2018). ¡°This forms part of 바카라사이트 quirky Object Lessons series, about 바카라사이트 hidden lives of ordinary things, alongside books on Dust, Blanket, Hood?and Questionnaire, for example (and for which I have been contracted to write Email). Best known for her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, Adams would seem 바카라사이트 least likely person to write about hamburgers with her philosophically lurid antipathy to carnivory. But if 바카라사이트 point is to deconstruct this iconic all-American meal, 바카라사이트n she is 바카라사이트 woman for 바카라사이트 job. Discussions of slaughter, grinders, BSE, 바카라사이트 McLibel trial and 바카라사이트 cultural misogyny that infuses meat will dampen your craving for macerated cow flesh. But after identifying 바카라사이트 hamburger as ¡®바카라사이트 unsustainable modernist solution to protein delivery¡¯, she whets our appetites for a soy burger instead, or a pea-and-beet Beyond Burger, or a syn바카라사이트tic Impossible Burger which shows that ¡®delicious meat doesn¡¯t have to come from an animal¡¯.¡±