Thanks for this recommendation, . The Reader’s Companion was a lot of fun to do, if also a lot of slog, and I’m delighted it’s both being enjoyed and working as a critical/pedagogical resource.
Could you perhaps edit the subject-line to read “& John Lennard” rather than “and John Lenna”? Thanks. (And, FWIW, you can find other, not dissimilar stuff I’ve done for commercial epublication at Humanities-Ebooks — including a collection, Of Sex and Faerie, that has essays on the Vorkosiverse and on Bujoldian fanfic.)
And in re: the comment by , well, I’d agree Julius Caesar is one to test the rule, but one doesn’t have to ship Brutus and Caesar, or even Brutus and Cassius : Brutus’s self-love will do nicely. More generally, though, the point of LMB’s perception about romance is that it isn’t limited to some designated set of Shakespeare’s plays — those some call ‘the romances’ (PER, CYM. WT, TEM), or ‘the comedies’, but is pervasive amid his genre-engineering ; and both in the modern sense of love-story and the older sense of vernacular adventure.
Thanks for this recommendation,. The Reader’s Companion was a lot of fun to do, if also a lot of slog, and I’m delighted it’s both being enjoyed and working as a critical/pedagogical resource.
Could you perhaps edit the subject-line to read “& John Lennard” rather than “and John Lenna”? Thanks. (And, FWIW, you can find other, not dissimilar stuff I’ve done for commercial epublication at Humanities-Ebooks — including a collection, Of Sex and Faerie, that has essays on the Vorkosiverse and on Bujoldian fanfic.)
And in re: the comment by, well, I’d agree Julius Caesar is one to test the rule, but one doesn’t have to ship Brutus and Caesar, or even Brutus and Cassius : Brutus’s self-love will do nicely. More generally, though, the point of LMB’s perception about romance is that it isn’t limited to some designated set of Shakespeare’s plays — those some call ‘the romances’ (PER, CYM. WT, TEM), or ‘the comedies’, but is pervasive amid his genre-engineering ; and both in the modern sense of love-story and the older sense of vernacular adventure.