Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: Shakespeare

  • By Any Other Name

    Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…

  • #2240

    When you need to make an important decision but your head is chaos-ridden with yes, no, maybe, but, and if as well as and then that it’s difficult to see which direction to go. I had just such a quandary this morning. I needed to post an entry here because I need to write, and right…

  • Don’t Mess With Bill

    My dad’s name is Bill. My brother’s name is Bill. My cousin’s name is Will. All derivatives of William, and all beloved by me. Then there’s the other William. My historical crush. William Shakespeare. In my dining room, in a place of honor, I have a shrine with a portrait of a young & sweet looking Shakespeare discovered…

  • New Duties

    Spring is finally here and with it two new classes I hadn’t planned to teach. Another instructor had to leave mid-semester for urgent personal reasons and since the classes were ones I’d taught many times, and they were right before my usual Tuesday sessions, I said I’d teach them. So this morning, instead of my…