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...about love and communication and personal history affecting the present. But at only ten pages or so, it would have been nice to see it developed a bit more. Pekar's self-absorption can turn drama into mere exposition. In one case he fills almost an entire panel with text, explaining his lack of communication with Danielle. At the bottom he looks at us, as if in conversation, while in the background, home from school, she runs up the stairs. It says more than it means to, I think...
...class, Jeremy R. Funke ’03, has attempted and achieved just that. His new play, A Counterfeit Presentment, challenges the traditional interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Hamlet. Funke’s play is a blend of Hamlet’s original text (as well as Othello and King Lear) and his own semi-Elizabethan prose. Although it would seem like a tall order to even attempt to change Shakespeare’s masterpiece, the mixture of the old material and Funke’s new lines works well...
...grace was definitely an altered version of the scene where Claudius is praying and confessing his sins and Hamlet is trying to decide whether to kill him then or wait. In Funke’s adaptation, both Horatio and Claudius are praying, confessing to similar sins. Though the text is very close to Shakespeare’s, Horatio and Claudius alternate lines and occasionally speak at the same time. The effect is both interesting and powerful...
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...translation. Mark Fried has done a competent job bringing the book into English, but no more. Galeano seems to be aware of the dangers of translation, and has done much to attenuate them through his liberal use of the engravings of José Guadalupe Posada to illustrate the text. The book is worth buying just to see the whimsical woodcuts of skeletons, soldiers, dragons and peasants. Posada died in 1913; his illustrations survive not only the passage of time but also the change of languages beautifully...