Bard Bingeing
Looks like I'm Shakespeare-bingeing this month. I just finished The Serpent of Venice Christopher Moore's fabulous follow-up to Fool (pardon me while I alliterate), which gleefully mashes up plots and characters from "King Lear", "Othello" and "The Merchant Of Venice."
And now I've segued into Kate Danley's Queen Mab: A Tale Entwined with William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, a fantasy woven in and out of "Romeo and Juliet". Danley had me at the first hint of turning Mercutio — one of the most lamented of all the Bard's untimely deaths — into the hero of her tale. So far, so good, a third of the way into the book, so stay tuned…
Btw, Danley has been writing for four years, maintains three ongoing, multi-volume fantasy series and several stand-alones, and is entirely self-published. The formatting in "Queen Mab" can be a bit wonky from page to page, and the print seems enormous, but the cover is gorgeous and her storytelling skills are highly accomplished.
And now I've segued into Kate Danley's Queen Mab: A Tale Entwined with William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, a fantasy woven in and out of "Romeo and Juliet". Danley had me at the first hint of turning Mercutio — one of the most lamented of all the Bard's untimely deaths — into the hero of her tale. So far, so good, a third of the way into the book, so stay tuned…
Btw, Danley has been writing for four years, maintains three ongoing, multi-volume fantasy series and several stand-alones, and is entirely self-published. The formatting in "Queen Mab" can be a bit wonky from page to page, and the print seems enormous, but the cover is gorgeous and her storytelling skills are highly accomplished.
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