[close] ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE: A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Fall 2008 (PENGUIN/PLUME)

The literary trick of the year. —New York Post

I can't quite believe "All The World's A Grave,": such an original idea. —Ian McKellen

This is the Frankenstein's monster of Shakespearean tragedy. It raises the
Artistotelian emotions of pity and fear to a new level as the audience
agonizes over the uncertainty of which catharsis John Reed's play is
heading toward. —William S. Niederkorn

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

Reed caramelizes the Bard's plays into a great and terrifying world, the State in continual war. "All The World's A Grave" is a dizzying feat of writing and scholarship. —Lynne Tillman
Is this man who wants to blow up the classic literary canon ... a menace, or a messiah? —Wikinews [close]