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The Communique, Chapter Five
Phoenix Neetkins completed her hyperspeed jump and dropped the Star-Fighter Mark II into position. Greenish-blue clouds scudded above the curvature of a world. Spotlights breaking intermittently through this cover hinted at some open-air event about to kick off below.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
The Communique, Chapter Four
Dylan and Flashsatsumas had ridden a Booster-class wheeled robot at full throttle across the Grindotron megalopolis whence Prof’s laboratory towered. Now our hero and his Mini-Flash companion hastened into a far less imposing edifice, the Museum of Monitoring Apparatus, amid asseverations from the former that in quieter times it was well worth a proper trip.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
The Communique, Chapter Three
Mailroom Duty at Flash Club Headquarters was never exactly a thrill a minute, and after the morning’s upheavals it was no wonder 4-H-N couldn’t keep her mind on the job. She was deeply happy Mini-Flash Pseudangelos had come home, that much went without saying. Yet the gladness bore with it a note of foreboding, because for all that 4-H-N’s so-called Special Program Task Force may originally have come to her in need, there was no longer any doubt they’d since come to view themselves as guests through choice alone. Sue’s mysterious little adventure was proof enough of that.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
The Communique, Chapter Two
4-H-N’s devoted duo had been assigned to an unfrequented eddy of limpid space, where lumpy clusters of frozen gas-bubbles clumped together to dot the region with tiny translucent asteroids. Atop one of these waited Flashbee, standing up on account of his stinger, which was uncomfortable but he had to keep it primed for immediate use.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Chapters
Ancient Roman History and the Plays of William Shakespeare
Around 1599, William Shakespeare wrote an historical tragedy about Julius Caesar, the celebrated military general and political leader of Ancient Rome. Plays based on the Classical Era were popular in Shakespeare’s time, and the story of Caesar’s illustrious life and his violent untimely death had become well-known in England through Plutarch’s Lives of the Most Noble Grecians and Romans, translated into English by Thomas North and published in 1579.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in BookClub
Two Female Coming-of-Agers
If you've ever so much as glanced over my writing on Vocal, you'll agree there's quite a good deal of coming-of-age in there. However, you'll probably also agree it seems to be written exclusively from a male perspective. The following plea for feedback was prompted by my friend Staringale, who read and gave me some very kind comments on one of the few exceptions to the above rule. This in turn started me thinking about the general absence of female coming-of-age tales within my body of work.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in Critique
On Prince Hal and the History Plays
William Shakespeare began to write English history plays early in his career with the three-part Henry the Sixth, followed by Richard the Third which was his first major success. Around 1597 he began a second four-part cycle, this one about the preceding historical period.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in BookClub
William Shakespeare's The Tempest
At some point between 1585 and 1592, a young William Shakespeare left his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon to seek his fortune as a playwright. Nobody knows which of his works was the first to be written or performed - only that on an afternoon in London around the late 1580s or early 90s, a Shakespeare play appeared onstage for the first time. The world changed forevermore that day, which is long forgotten to us now.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in BookClub
William Shakespeare's Henry VIII
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII (also known as All is True) was written in 1613, possibly to celebrate the Royal Wedding of one of King James’s daughters which took place that year. The play does not seem to have been published until 1623, when it appeared in the First Folio. It is the last of Shakespeare’s English history plays, and may also be the very last play he ever wrote, as he died just three years later. The Tempest, written around 1611, was the final work Shakespeare authored alone, but we know that after that he produced a few others collaboratively.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in BookClub
William Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Top Story - December 2023.
Written around 1608, Coriolanus was possibly William Shakespeare’s last tragedy. He wrote four such plays set in Ancient Rome, and coincidentally his first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, is also one of these. However, while Titus is not very accurate historically, for Coriolanus (as well as Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra) Shakespeare made extensive use of Plutarch’s Lives of the Most Noble Grecians and Romans which had been translated into English by Thomas North in 1579. Coriolanus does not appear to have seen print in Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the earliest text is from the posthumously-published First Folio of 1623.
By Doc Sherwood2 years ago in BookClub
