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ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE:
A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
by JOHN REED (author website)
Plume/Penguin, September 2008

ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE is a new five-act tragedy, assembled exclusively from the works of William Shakespeare. Lines are drawn from the entirety of the Shakespeare canon. The lead players: Hamlet, Juliet & Romeo, Iago, Macbeth, the Queen (as Gertrude and Lady Macbeth), King Lear, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, the Three Witches, and the Ghost of the King.
For events, syllabi and other materials, go to:
alltheworldsagrave.com
**Advanced Review Copies are now available for review, academic and theatrical, so if that's you, let me know.
I HAD JUST DECIDED TO NAME MY NEW PLAY “A YEAR WITHOUT SHAKESPEARE,” TO EXPRESS MY WEARINESS WITH THE RECURRING UNIMAGINATIVE RETURN AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THE BARD. THEN I CAME UPON JOHN REED’S NEW/OLD PLAY, AND I FEEL FIRED UP! WHAT A DRAMATIC RE-IMAGINATION IS HEREIN OFFERED US! —RICHARD FOREMAN
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I'm here, and look forward to meeting everyone out there. The impersonal side of myspace and sites alike: a little daunting. But I prefer it to the old days, when it was so hard for us to find one another. I was at a book party last night—two good books—which was inexplicably depressing. On the walk home, I realized what the problem had been: the audience wasn't wired. There was no online research, community, follow-up to the event, or to the books. I'm doing my best to give ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE the online life that it needs. Thanks to everyone for their forbearance—and I know, my debts are many, so please be in touch.

My Blog

All The Worlds A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare. ARCs. (Penguin/Plume, Sept. 08)

Advanced Review Copies now available for academic, press, theatrical. If that's you, let us know.What's in the brain that ink may character, which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?ATWAG is a n...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:10:00 GMT

WIKINEWS/ ORWELL, SELF-DESTRUCTION, AND THE FUTURE OF THE CANON

If anyone is interested, I had a conversation with Wikinewsabout all sorts of things.Orwell, narrative, the death penalty, red chert scrapers ...john@wikinews
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:01:00 GMT

NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE PANEL

In keeping with its commitment to promote book discussion, the National Book Critics Circle is opening the fall season in New York with a week-long symposium, The Age of Infinite Margins: Book Critics...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:39:00 GMT

A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte/Delta)

Written with a storyteller's grace and a poet's touch, John Reed's powerful first novel is a true adventure of the heart -- at once a passionate love story and a sweeping historical saga set against a...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:59:00 GMT

SNOWBALL'S CHANCE (Roof)

Snowball's Chance is a wildly scathing, landmark novel by New York author John Reed. Written in lower Manhattan, near Ground Zero, in the three weeks following September 11, Reed's story is surprisin...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:55:00 GMT

THE WHOLE (MTV: Simon & Schuster)

In the middle of America's heartland, a young boy digs a small hole in the ground & which grows into a big hole in the ground & which then proceeds to drag the boy, his parents, his dog, and most of t...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:52:00 GMT