Tag Archives: Shakespeare

CW Made Something Shorter?!

Posted on 30 September 2015 by Sørina Higgins

Charles Williams Book Summary #29: The Story of Shakespeare  [the numbers are messed up, because I haven’t always blogged books in order. See THE INDEX for a tidy list] In 1930, Oxford UP’s Clarendon Press published Sir Edmund Chambers’ massive, … Continue reading →

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What did Everybody Think about Everything? Shakespeare’s Universal Poetics

Posted on 1 July 2015 by Sørina Higgins

Charles Williams Book Summary #28: Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933) Here on The Oddest Inkling, we are in a bit of dry phase in the book summary series—or at least, that’s what I thought before I began … Continue reading →

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The Poetry of Crisis: “The English Poetic Mind”

Posted on 20 May 2015 by Sørina Higgins

Charles Williams Book Summary #24: The English Poetic Mind (1932) Here we are with another book summary. Today it is CW’s second work of literary criticism: The English Poetic Mind. It was published in 1932 by the Clarendon Press. Hadfield … Continue reading →

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The Momma of Mash-up: A Myth of Shakespeare

Posted on 25 June 2014 by Sørina Higgins

Charles Williams Book Summary #13: A Myth of Shakespeare (1928) Of all of CW’s plays that I have read thus far, this is the most performable! Any theatre directors reading this should seriously consider staging this play. Furthermore, of all … Continue reading →

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On Meeting Shakespeare

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Sørina Higgins

Happy 450th birthday, Shakespeare! This past Wednesday–23 April 2014–was the traditional date on which we mark the Bard’s birthday. We don’t really know what day he was born on, but he was christened on this date, April 25th, and died … Continue reading →

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