Some Thursday Readings

Murders for September – Jeremy Black at The Critic Magazine. 

On the name ‘Hamlet’ – Adam Roberts at Adam’s Notebook.

 

Podcast: The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg – Tim Smith and Chris Mackowski.

 

Poet Laura: Poems for Liminal Times – Michelle Rinaldi Ortega at Tweetspeak Poetry.

 

Alexandre de Moraes is no hero – Elijah Grant at The Critic Magazine.

 

Why Thrillers Matter – Mike Maden at CrimeReads.

 

New Titanic photos show major decay to legendary wreck – Amarachi Orie at CNN.

 

Allan Pinkerton’s Civil War Legacy: Justified or Overblown? – Michael Stroud at The Historians Magazine.

 

Who is the best British novelist? – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.

 

“A History,” poem by Tom Hood – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Photograph: The Titanic leaving Queenstown, Ireland, one of the last photographs taken of the ship.

"Hamnet": Visualizing What Inspired Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had three children – Susannah and the twins Judith and Hamnet. In 1596, when the twins were 11, Hamnet died. A week after his son was buried in their hometown of Stratford, Shakespeare was back in London, working on a new play.  

It seems odd to us today that the man would have hurried back so quickly to London after the funeral of his child. I suspect it might have seemed odd even in 1596. Your wife is grieving, your daughters are grieving, your still-living parents are grieving, and you rush back to work. We don’t know what might have been going on in Shakespeare’s mind, as he left no written record of his thoughts about his son’s death.

 

Or did he?

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

The Murder Case in Arden of Faversham, the Greatest Shakespearean-Era Play You’ve Never Heard Of – Amnon Kabatchnik at CrimeReads. 

 

Wings – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.

 

The oneness, torn

The oneness, once torn

by a spirit seeking

justice, was lost.

He chose and clutched

the dagger offered;

she found solace only

at the bottom of the pool.

He loved her less

than the desire for revenge;

she loved him more

than the desire for life.

Only in death could

oneness be found.

This poem is submitted for the painting prompt at Magpie Tales. The painting is Ophelia by Odilion Redon.