Blue Mountain Rose
Previously, I’ve collected novels that feature Shakespeare, in performance or in scholarship, part of the plot, something, previously, I’ve collected those as hardbacks. As of late, though, finances and shelf space, I’m back to my old trailer-park mindset and I gather up only pieces that are important on more than one level. I have a handful of Shakespeare textbooks, scholarship, fiction and reference.
While it was from a sales slip, the usual marketing crap, “One of the best novels this month,” Blue Mountain Rose is set in a summer performance of a Shakespeare play. While only in ancillary format, I’ve been backstage, and around the summer stock of theatre for many years.
That feels familiar.
Blue Mountain Rose
The story is built around the staging of Hamlet, and having a good player for the titular role, and then the improbable fictions of portent game, “Who’s on first?”
As much as it is intertwined with the staging of Hamlet, as Fabian in 12 Night might comically comment?
“If this were play’d upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (III.iv.69)
Fun book. Rom-Com with a Shakespeare staging.
Blue Mountain Rose
The Bookman’s Tale
Hag-Seed
Vinegar Girl
The Gap of Time
Mona Acts Out
This is Shakespeare
