{"id":132550,"date":"2017-10-28T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132550"},"modified":"2017-10-28T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:32:14","slug":"bookshelf-tour-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=132550","title":{"rendered":"Bookshelf Tour #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI don’t care about the Internet. I still look up definitions in my battered old dictionary which I’ve been lugging around the country for decades. <\/p>\n

Bartlett’s is also essential. <\/p>\n

I bought The First Folio of Shakespeare 1623<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (printed in facsimile) in grad school: my great classics teacher Doug Moston edited it. Incidentally, Doug’s dad – Murray Moston – was the dude in Taxi Driver<\/em> who got his hand blown off by Travis Bickle in the final showdown in the whorehouse hallway. Harvey Keitel and Doug Moston were best friends and Keitel would often crash at the Moston house. Murray Moston ran a cutthroat poker game for his actor friends. “They called him Midtown Murray,” Doug told us. He was one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever had. (Post about him here.<\/a>) I used the Folio all the time when I was acting because editors often smooth out Shakespeare’s punctuation – or modernize it – or, even worse – add exclamation marks !!!! – which totally changed a line. (I go into that here<\/a>, comparing\/contrasting The Folio and a modern edition.) Actors are SO sensitive to punctuation. Actors read punctuation like musicians read music. If there’s an exclamation mark it tells you how to say a line. <\/p>\n

Ah, Riverside Shakespeare. Dog-eared, marked-up, beloved. I bought it in college. It was an investment that has more than paid off. It’s filled with notes from college acting classes. Plus I taped an autumn leaf into the back cover decades ago. I don’t remember why but it must have been important at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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