David Bruce Anecdotes
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Names
• Andrew Jackson was as tough as hickory, a fact that gave him his nickname. Old Hickory was known for having things done his way — or no way at all. As President, he vetoed more bills than all of the Presidents before him put together had vetoed. When he died, a dignitary asked a field man who had worked for Mr. Jackson whether Old Hickory would go to Heaven. The field hand replied, “He will, sir, if he wants to.”
• The doctrine of papal infallibility was promulgated in 1870, and the press was much interested in this doctrine, regularly asking bishops about it. After James Gibbons (1834-1921) became a bishop, and on returning home from a trip to Rome where he had met the Pope, he was asked about papal infallibility. He replied, “All I know is that he kept referring to me as Jibbons.” (Italians often pronounce the letter G as the letter J.)
• When Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born, her grandmother said that when she grew up, she would be the first lady of something. That’s why she was named after then-First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
• At the 1984 Olympic Games, Kathy Johnson’s teammates called her “Grandma” because at age 24, she was the oldest member of the United States women’s gymnastics team.
• Michelle Kwan’s father, Danny, is a fan of music by the Beatles. In fact, he liked the Beatles’ song “Michelle” so much that he named his second daughter after it.
• Sportswriter Franz Lidz, in collaboration with his wife, Maggie, named their daughters “Gogo” and “Daisy Daisy.”
Olympics
• The night before playing in the championship game as a goaltender on the United States women’s hockey team at the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, Sarah Tueting found it difficult to get to sleep. Seeing a bowl of apples in her room, she picked up an apple and hurled it at the middle of a wall, creating a big splat! She kept on hurling apples until she ran out, although her roommate told her, “Get away from me!” The apple-throwing incident must have had a therapeutic effect — she and her team won the championship game and the gold medal the following day.
• Before gymnastics practices, two of Olga Korbut’s teammates sometimes used to hold on to her hands and feet and swing her like a jump rope. Before the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Olga was motivated to succeed. In fact, a 1970 entry in her diary stated, “1972, Munich, Olympic Games — 1st place.”
People with Handicaps
• Often, the first thing two deaf people do when they go to a nice restaurant is to remove the centerpiece so they have an unobstructed view of each other’s hands. (In addition, they make certain that the restaurants they go to are well lit.)
• A blind singer received the first of many standing ovations in his career. After he had been told that he had received a standing ovation, he asked, “What is a standing ovation?”
Practical Jokes
• Among filmmaker John Waters’ many collectables are three two-foot-high dolls with hair that you can style. Mr. Waters has named the dolls “Tiny,” “Kim,” and “Kathy.” Although he takes good care of the dolls, occasionally he would return home and find that some of his friends had used makeup to simulate bruises and black eyes on the dolls so that they looked like they had been abused.
• As a part of his work as a master of special effects in the movies and on TV, Wah Ming Chang created a gorilla suit. At a party, he once scared a guest, who discovered what seemed to be a gorilla sitting on a toilet.
Preachers
• An old minister wanted a new church annex to be built. He listened as his 12 deacons argued about the advantages and disadvantages of the new annex, then said, “You have heard all the good reasons why the new annex should be built, and all the unreasonable things said against the new annex. Now it is time for a vote. All those in favor of building the new annex will so signify by saying ‘aye.” Six deacons said, “Aye.” The old preacher continued, “All those against building the new annex will so signify by saying ‘I resign.’”
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From The Book of Good Deeds 1914-1918: WORLD WAR I GOOD DEEDS:
DURING the retreat out of Macedonia in the fall of 1918, I and several of my comrades got parted from our company and all we knew was that Jagodine (in Serbia) had been mentioned as the gathering place. The Serbians were astonishingly amicably disposed towards the Germans and in almost every village I found quarters. Yet I always barricaded my door from within as a precaution and also my gun lay loaded by my bedside. In Nisch, the chief center of the Balkan army, it so happened, however, that I was turned away at every door. I persisted nonetheless in my search for quarters, knocked at the door of one medium-sized house and presented my case to an elderly lady who had cautiously opened the door to me. I told her that I merely wanted a bed, and that I had been “deloused” only yesterday. To my astonishment, she laughed at my unintentional joke and asked me whether I should be satisfied with a room in the attic. I thanked her, beaming with joy.
The next morning I saw through the window that a wash-basin with soap and towel were already laid out beside the pump. I had hardly crossed the courtyard and hung my coat on the pumphandle when my hostess rushed up to me, fell on my neck and broke into loud sobbing. At the same time she covered the woolen scarf which I wore round my neck at night as a protection against colds, with kisses stammering the whole time, “My son—my poor son.” It turned out that she had given her own son just such a neckerchief, and such a hand-knitted scarf was always the work of a mother. Did I not get it from my mother?
I admitted it in astonishment. I told her that my mother was a widow and I, her only son, had had to go to the war when only eighteen. In the severe winter of 1916-17, I contracted inflammation of the lungs in France and my mother absolutely insisted that when I went back I was to take along her woolen kerchief, so that on cold nights at least my neck would be protected. Since that day this scarf was my talisman and I thought I would never be able to fall asleep if I didn’t have it on.
My story worked miracles. The woman held my hand in hers and told me that she too was a widow and that her only son had been killed during the Bulgarian offensive in the fall of 1915. She too had knitted a woolen scarf and on seeing mine, she had realized immediately that I could have got it only from my mother. In that moment all her past suffering had been revived and she begged me urgently to allow her to treat me as a son. She immediately brought all my things down from the attic and I had to camp in her best room. I also had to share all her meals from now on.
When after four days I took leave of her, I could not utter a word: but she kissed me on the brow and faltered out that she was going to pray that my mother might once again hold me safely in her arms.
By Albert Vieth, Actor, Magdeburg.
SUPERNOBODY
“Undefinable, Rock and Roll that no one will hate.”
Supernobody: “Revolution 101”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EyEB_daug
Supernobody: “Make the Music Sway”
Supernobody: “Sheep”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaw3n6pfFSc
Supernobody: “The Past is Passing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbeMzy-tkY
Supernobody – 2014 Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SgXbqoY1E
LINKS
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SWING BIG
Swing Big is a duo that features Dave Borowski on vocals and guitar, and Zeke Hutchison on mandolin. Their music relies heavily on influences drawn from jazz, swing, Western swing, blues, bluegrass, and music from the British Isles.
Dave Borowski has performed in public since 1972. In addition to studio and freelance work, he has been a member of Athens-based bands Close Enough for Jazz, Aces and Eights, the Kings of Hollywood, Deltoid, Common Ground, the Billycats, Zeke’s Fancy, and the Wingnuts. He also currently plays with J.D. Hutchison and Realbilly Jive.
Zeke Hutchison grew up around music, his father and uncle being the core of the nationally-known Hutchison Brothers. Zeke took to the mandolin at an early age. He recently recorded with (Grammy-award-winning artist) Tim O’Brien on his Short Order Sessions. O’Brien writes of Zeke as “one of the best unsung mandolin players in the world.”
Together, Swing Big performs jazz standards from the American Songbook, swing songs from the Django Reinhardt-Charlie Christian Era, country and western swing from the likes of Bob Wills, and just about anything else that might catch their ears.
For a good time, come hear ’em.
Swing Big on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@Swing Big8195
Zeke Hutchison on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@zekehutchison5672
David Borowski on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@davidborowski6425
Swing Big: “Cherokee”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhMcCuJ5Ts
Swing Big: “Evening Prayer Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDMJ5M3dJw
Swing Big: “September Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BptJ9LHJW-0
Zeke Hutchison and Bob Hutchison (his father): Cricket on the Hearth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBTTg-qcfzY
Swing Big (no Zeke, just Dave): “The Monkey Speaks His Mind”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iid6PA69RU
Swing Big at the Front Room, Athens Ohio 1/15/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KsR_nSVOo
SWING BIG — DAVE BOROWSKI and ZEKE HUTCHISON
https://cosplayvideos.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/swing-big-dave-borowski-and-zeke-hutchison-acoustic-lunch-at-ohio-universitys-baker-center-16-february-2022/ (16 February 2022)
SWING BIG — DAVE BOROWSKI and ZEKE HUTCHISON
https://davidbrucemusic.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/swing-big-at-the-front-room-1-15-2020/ (15 February 2020)
Words can’t describe the loss of J.D. Hutchison. He has influenced both of our lives in so many ways. Zeke lost his uncle (the Funcle, we called him), with whom he shared years and years of great times, musical and otherwise. Dave was the bassist in JD’s band, Realbilly Jive, for its entire run. However, this description only scratches the surface…
He left us the same way he lived his life … on his own terms. Many of the people he’d known throughout his life had the chance to tell him how much he meant to them, and they got to say their goodbyes. That’s a good thing.
Many, many people have posted photos, videos, recordings, and memories on social media. The number is astounding and speaks to the love people will always feel for JD, and the length and breadth of the mark he made on so many lives.
Rest In Peace, J.D. Hutchison
THE LOCAL GIRLS
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THE LOCAL GIRLS COME OUT SWINGING!
Formed on a summer’s night in Athens, Ohio in 1988, the three singers—Brenda Catania, Gay Dalzell, and Mimi Hart—had all been touring and recording for years and were ready to pour their energies into some music that was, well, local. Although their musical experiences were varied, all three shared an enthusiasm for close harmony, for the ineffable thrill of creating a smooth or jumping song, chord by chord. Each woman remains stylistically distinctive, but together they create a vibrant, balanced blend—and they have contagious fun doing it.
Although much of their material focuses on the hot and vampy swing tunes of the 30s and 40s (The Boswells, The Jimmy Lunsford Trio, and The Rhythm Boys), they also pursue their eclectic musical interests by performing their own arrangements of jazz, cowpoke, bebop, blues, standards and an occasional psychedelic hit. Their repertoire spins through a century of moving American song.
Before returning to Athens to raise her family, Brenda had worked primarily in Boston and San Francisco, doing cabaret, musical theater, rock and roll and with the performance art groups, Nuclear Beauty Parlor and the Monster Girls. Gay toured extensively, singing a range from bluegrass to blues. A featured member of The Appalachian Green Parks Project, she continues her popular folk/jazz duo work with her husband, the singer/songwriter Bruce Dalzell. Mimi began performing with her sisters at six; later, she worked out of Athens, New York City, and Cleveland, heading up and down the East coast and across the country with Hotcakes, the Bopcats, David Bromberg, the Allman Brothers and others.
The Local Girls’ gifted accompanists have deep resumes as well. Mike McGannon, a creative Ohio mainstay on guitars and banjo, was the musical director of The Angels, and has toured with The Drifters and The Coasters, as well as playing on countless recordings. Terry Douds, a sought-after clinician and engineer/producer, is an outstanding bass player, having toured the U.S., Europe and Asia with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Ink Spots, The Columbus Symphony and more.
The Local Girls have opened for the Platters, Lonestar, and Chubby Checker, and entertained the troops surrounding Air Force One. They’ve sung for two award-winning PBS documentary series. With The Lark Quartet, The Local Girls premiered a new birthday song, “Your Trip Around the Sun”, at Hillary Clinton’s fiftieth birthday gala in Washington D.C. They toured Europe with Ohio University singers, performed in The East Room at The White House for candlelight festivities and were guests on The Prairie Home Companion at Town Hall in NYC.
ALBUM: LET YOURSELF GO
https://www.amazon.com/Let-Yourself-Go-Local-Girls/dp/B0016XDUBQ/
ALBUM: THREE LITTLE WORDS
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Little-Words-Local-Girls/dp/B005CHZT2K
MUSIC LYRIC VIDEOS
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The Local Girls (Athens, Ohio, USA): “Blue Shadows on the Trail”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprEzwUad20
THE LOCAL GIRLS (Athens, Ohio, USA): “Cheek to Cheek”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWVUe4zU48
THE LOCAL GIRLS (Athens, Ohio, USA): “I’ll Never Say ‘Never Again’ Again”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gAWwTbq3tc
THE LOCAL GIRLS (Athens, Ohio, USA): “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy8JRXASwJw
THE LOCAL GIRLS (Athens, Ohio, USA): “Snap, Crackle, Pop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5S4zgwTYTg
THE LOCAL GIRLS (Athens, Ohio, USA): “Where the Boys Are”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwBkQWgHRfQ
THE LOCAL GIRLS: “A La Nanita”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjPudbHWUY
THE LOCAL GIRLS: “Ready On The Firing Line” (JD Hutchison cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxBT4AhUyY
LIVE FROM HOME: BRUCE AND GAY DALZELL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
Review of The Local Girls’ LET YOURSELF GO
This is a very listenable album with covers of notable songs by such music luminaries as Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, JD Hutchison, and Bruce Dalzell. I especially like “Where the Girls Are” and “I Feel Free.”
Three singers — Brenda Catania, Gay Dalzell, and Mimi Hart — formed The Local Girls in the summer of 1988 in Athens County, Ohio. They have performed at Town Hall in New York City as guests of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, toured Europe, and sang for Hillary Clinton’s 50th birthday party. In addition, they have recorded two albums: Let Yourself Go (2000) and Three Little Words (2011). How to best describe them? Swing singers, yes. Vocal jazz, yes. Certainly, they perform precision, three-part harmony as they cover older and newer songs. The chronology of their repertoire ranges from 1854 (Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More” — no, not on this album) to the 1990s (T. Bone Burnett’s “It’s Not Too Late” — yes, on this album).
These are the songs on Let Yourself Go:
“Shout Sister Shout.” Recorded in the 1930s by the Boswell Sisters, a close harmony group. Very jazzy and tuneful. Some lyrics: “Just tell old Satan how you feel / Get that old Devil right off your heel / Shout sister, shout sister, shout!”
“Centerpiece.” Recorded by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross in 1960 on the album titled Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! The Hottest New Group in Jazz. This title is an example of proper (earned) pride. Notably covered by Van Morrison. Some lyrics: “The more I’m with you, pretty baby / The more I feel my love increase / I’m building all my dreams around you / My happiness will never cease / But nothing’s any good without you / ’Cause, baby, you’re my centerpiece.”
“Stay A Little Longer.” Some lyrics: “Stay a little longer / A little bit longer / You know you ain’t got nothing better to do / We’ll blindfold the cat / Put out the dog / Pull the shades and lock the door.” Written by Paula Lockhart with additional lyrics by David Lister. One of my favorites on this album.
“I’ll Never Say ‘Never Again’ Again.” Notably recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio, the Three Ambassadors, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, and many more. Some lyrics: “I’ll never say ‘never again’ again / ’Cause here I am in love again / Head over heels in love again with you / I’ll never say, ‘never kiss you’ again / ’Cause here I am kissing you again / That’s just the thing I said I’d never do.”
“I Feel Free.” The Cream song, written by Pete Brown and Jack Bruce. The Local Girls’ version is much less rock and much more harmonic. Some lyrics: “I can walk down the street, there’s no one there / Though the pavements are one huge crowd. / I can drive down the road, my eyes don’t see, / Though my mind wants to cry out loud.”
“Since My Bird Has Flied Away.” The composer, J.D. Hutchison, sings lead, backed up by The Local Girls. A different version of “Since My Bird Has Flied Away” appears on J.D. Hutchison’s album You and the World Outside. Some lyrics: “Pour some more coffee in my coffee cup / I don’t know why, I don’t even like the stuff / But nothing seems to matter / Since my bird has flied away.” The bird, of course, is a woman. Another of my favorites.
“Let Yourself Go.” The Irving Berlin song. Ginger Rogers sang this song, and — of course — danced to it with Fred Astaire. Some lyrics: “Come / Get together / Let the dance floor feel your leather / Step as lightly as a feather / Let yourself go / Come / Hit the timber / Loosen up and start to limber / Can’t you hear that hot marimba? / Let yourself go.”
“Where The Boys Are.” Written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield for the 1960 movie of the same title, starring Connie Francis, Yvette Mimieux, Paula Prentiss, and Dolores Hart. My personal favorite on this Local Girls album. Some lyrics: “Where the boys are / Someone waits for me, / A smiling face, a warm embrace, / Two arms to hold me tenderly. / Where the boys are / My true love will be, / He’s walking down some street in town / And I know he’s looking there for me.”
“Ready On The Firing Line.” Another great song by JD Hutchison. Some lyrics: “In this world / You’ve got to be ready / Got to have everything just so / You’ve got to be ready just to hang around / Or you’ve got to be ready to go / You’ve got to be ready just to hear the word / You must be ready to read the sign / You must be ready on the left / Ready on the right / Ready on the firing line.”
“The Bozo Blues.” A song by Bruce Dalzell, Gay Dalzell’s husband. Bruce and Gay have made a lot of excellent music in Athens County, Ohio, for decades. This is a bluesy, humorous song about going to Chicago to be on The Bozo Show. Some lyrics: “I’m going to Chicago / Be on that Bozo Show / Yeah, I’m going to Chicago / Be on that B-B-Bozo Show / Yeah, I don’t know where Chicago is / But, mama, I got to go.”
“It’s Not Too Late.” The T-Bone Burnett song. Some lyrics: “The wind turns like a dagger, / the rain falls like a hammer / The sky has grown dark but it’s not too late / The weather crashes down, what’s lost cannot be found / The night is closing but it’s not too late.”
“I Want To Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart.” A hit for Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers. Some lyrics: “I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart / I want to learn to rope and to ride / I want to ride o’er the plains and the desert / Out west of the great divide / I want to hear the coyotes howlin’ / While the sun sets in the West / I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart / That’s the life that I love best.” Lots of yodeling on this one.
“The Blue Shadows On The Trail.” A Roy Rogers song. Some lyrics: “Blue shadows on the trail / Blue moon shinin’ through the trees / And a plain tiff wail from the distance / Comes a driftin’ on the evening breeze.”
“Caravan.” The Duke Ellington song. Some lyrics: “Night and stars above that shine so bright / The mystery of their fading light / That shines upon our Caravan / Sleep upon my shoulder as we creep / Across the sands so I may keep / The memory of our Caravan.”
“Mothra vs. Godzilla.” The main title of the 1964 Japanese monster movie of the same name. On Rotten Tomatoes, 90 percent of the critics like the movie. If nothing else, this song proves that The Local Girls are eclectic. Do you speak Monster? I don’t. Look for lyrics elsewhere.
Readers of this review should make heavy use of Amazon’s preview snippets of The Local Girls’ songs on this page.
The Local Girls ought to be famous, but one problem with Athens County is that it’s such a good place to live that excellent music-makers often stay here rather than moving to Nashville, NYC, or LA to seek fame and fortune. Lots of musicians choose to raise their kids in Athens County.
Support local music, and be aware that in the age of the Internet and the WWW, Athens County is local worldwide.
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BRIDGET CONLIN
BRIDGET CONLIN on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf9KhptGn6S9o2cJKv8fHlg
BRIDGET CONLIN: “A Better Man” (Lyric Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ht3ADJkfnU
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Stop at Nothing” (Craig Strickland Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL7gyJTEl5w
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Bathroom Light” (Mt. Joy Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8E2V00q0c
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Remedy” (Adele Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeWO_PFs6yc
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Bound to You” (Christina Aguilera Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i95ZISE8-Q
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Songbird” Glee Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_quzhDkVj4
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Drops of Jupiter.” Train Cover. Open-Mic Night. 19 January 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZIyBKdj58
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Yours.” Ella Henderson Cover. Open-Mic Night. 19 January 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyis68jsuoQ
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Millionaire.” Chris Stapleton Cover. Open-Mic Night. 17 November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5TIz3PBwQ
BRIDGET CONLIN: “You Say.” Lauren Daigle Cover. Open-Mic Night. 3 November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzSZKlgvM9w
BRIDGET CONLIN: “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off.” Jermaine Stewart Cover. Open-Mic Night. 3 November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-wccQikMo
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Better Man.” Little Big Town Cover. Open-Mic Night. 20 October 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWu_GPuxkyI
BRIDGET CONLIN: “What He Didn’t Do.” Carley Pearce Cover. Open-Mic Night. 20 October 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaoAmO8zVrw
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Figures.” Jesse Reyes Cover. Open-Mic Night. 20 October 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMIQUUdSsA
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Used to be Young.” Miley Cyrus cover. Open-Mic Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44nhybQpuI
BRIDGET CONLIN: “One and Only.” Adele cover. Open-Mic Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1F-B6Foc5Y
BRIDGET CONLIN: “She Used to Be Mine.” Open-Mic Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIF8M69VvME
“Wonder Woman.” Miley Cyrus cover. Open-Mic Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Culv8iGHxjA
BRIDGET CONLIN: “Simple Things.” Teddy Swims cover. Open-Mic Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zklpiulrfE
BRIDGET CONLIN: “The Climb”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydflBimwF2M
BRIDGET CONLIN: “The Hurt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GXAGL46xzE
BRIDGET CONLIN SCHOOL SHOWCASE
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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Rodrigo Mazutti: English-language Short Film: AEMULA
A guy receives a phone call that makes him question his sanity. (AEMULA is Latin for “rival.”)
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