Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
2011-09-22 19:51:36
'Dark Sovereign' is published – again. I mailed privately printed
copies from a small edition over twenty years ago. After more work, here
is the final thing. The end of my media release, below, lists sites
selling POD paperback copies of 'Dark Sovereign' to the U.K, Canada and
the U.S. First, you can read 19 pages of excerpts on my URL as well as
an 11-page 'The Owner's Manual' (Introduction, in modern English!) which
gives a complete history of how 'Dark Sovereign' came to be and the
paradigm within which I built it. As before, I expect heavy criticism to
drop from a great height, thrown by the Shakespeare establishment, but I
guess one doesn't write the longest play in Renaissance English without
taking flak. As well as the 19 pages on my site, Booklocker.com lets you
read two complete scenes with footnotes. This edition follows standard
Arden editions of Tudor and Stuart plays, placing relevant footnotes at
the foot of appropriate pages. The only e-Book edition is pure PDF from
Booklocker (U.S.), because 'Dark Sovereign' has over 700 footnotes, and
technology can't yet cope with massed footnotes. / Robert Fripp
Media Release -- for Immediate Release:
Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
Toronto – September 22, 2011 – For the first time in four
centuries a modern writer has challenged William Shakespeare by writing
a full-length play in the Bard's Renaissance English—fluently.
Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Richard the Third as Tudor propaganda
for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I, portraying King Richard III as a
misshapen sociopath and killer. Author and copywriter Robert Fripp, the
former series producer of CBC-TV's long-running investigative program,
The Fifth Estate, took four years to pen his counter-attack on
Shakespeare's play. Fripp's Dark Sovereign tells the real tale of
Richard's troubled reign.
"At last!" comments New York director Nathaniel Merchant. "Here is an
antidote to the scurrilous but seductive play by Shakespeare. Fripp
shocks with his skillful and uncanny use of verse and his portrait of
Richard as a man, not a caricature or stock villain".
"It's not wildly revisionist", says Fripp."Dark Sovereign seldom gives
Richard's character more benefit of the doubt than you find in reliable
histories. Dark Sovereign runs close to the northern counties' long-held
view of Richard as a benign, capable ruler: He was caught between a rock
and a hard place in a smouldering civil war (England's Wars of the
Roses) that went up in flames. Dark Sovereign dramatises the snake-pit
of that conflict with a human, not a demonic, face. It's a stronger
story without Shakespeare's character assassination".
Art historian Claude Marks, who moved from London to lecture at New
York's Metropolitan Museum, called Dark Sovereign "a cultural
accomplishment of the highest order". Not only that: Dark Sovereign runs
longer than Hamlet. Overnight it becomes the longest play written in
Renaissance English.
"Many authors, including Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the four teams
of scholars who produced the King James Bible were writing in what we
call 'the Golden Age' of the English language", says Fripp. "It's a
beautiful language. It's mine and it's yours. It's yours to read, too!"
He should know. As a boy, Fripp won a choral scholarship into Salisbury
Cathedral choir where he chanted and sang sixteenth century English for
five years.
Fripp took an earlier foray into history using the language of that
period. Introduced by novelist John Fowles, Fripp's The Becoming, (Let
There Be Life in North America), is an audacious retelling of the
Genesis creation story from a scientific point of view. Later, in Power
of a Woman. Memoirs of ... Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fripp wrote the
first-person memoirs of one of Europe's most charismatic women. Now a
copywriter and consultant at The Impact Group in Toronto, he will soon
publish New Wessex Tales, a short story collection set in his native
English county, Dorset. RobertFripp dot ca offers excerpts and reviews
of several works.
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More Information
Information: Robert Fripp (416) 481-7070 x29 (Toronto office, 10:00 -
4:30 EST)
Email addresses: r_fripp@... <mailto:r_fripp@...> ||
<rfripp@... <mailto:rfripp@...> >
Websites: RobertFripp.ca/ || Linkedin.com/in/robertfripp (Toronto
area)
Read excerpts: RobertFripp.ca >Menu >Dark Sovereign >Excerpts
Read excerpts 2: Booklocker.com/books/5695.html
<http://booklocker.com/books/5695.html> >Read excerpts (two scenes)
Reviewers: Request the full text in PDF. Read current reviews (Comments)
at RobertFripp.ca/
Purchase: Print-on-Demand Paperback (240 pp), available from...
Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> (U.S.),
BarnesandNoble.com <http://BarnesandNoble.com/> , Amazon.com
<http://Amazon.com/> , Amazon.ca <http://Amazon.ca/> , Amazon.co.uk
<http://Amazon.co.uk/>
Booksellers: Ingram Book Company stocks `Dark Sovereign'
e-Books: Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> will offer a PDF
eBook. Technical limits currently prevent device-specific book format
versions.
copies from a small edition over twenty years ago. After more work, here
is the final thing. The end of my media release, below, lists sites
selling POD paperback copies of 'Dark Sovereign' to the U.K, Canada and
the U.S. First, you can read 19 pages of excerpts on my URL as well as
an 11-page 'The Owner's Manual' (Introduction, in modern English!) which
gives a complete history of how 'Dark Sovereign' came to be and the
paradigm within which I built it. As before, I expect heavy criticism to
drop from a great height, thrown by the Shakespeare establishment, but I
guess one doesn't write the longest play in Renaissance English without
taking flak. As well as the 19 pages on my site, Booklocker.com lets you
read two complete scenes with footnotes. This edition follows standard
Arden editions of Tudor and Stuart plays, placing relevant footnotes at
the foot of appropriate pages. The only e-Book edition is pure PDF from
Booklocker (U.S.), because 'Dark Sovereign' has over 700 footnotes, and
technology can't yet cope with massed footnotes. / Robert Fripp
Media Release -- for Immediate Release:
Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
Toronto – September 22, 2011 – For the first time in four
centuries a modern writer has challenged William Shakespeare by writing
a full-length play in the Bard's Renaissance English—fluently.
Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Richard the Third as Tudor propaganda
for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I, portraying King Richard III as a
misshapen sociopath and killer. Author and copywriter Robert Fripp, the
former series producer of CBC-TV's long-running investigative program,
The Fifth Estate, took four years to pen his counter-attack on
Shakespeare's play. Fripp's Dark Sovereign tells the real tale of
Richard's troubled reign.
"At last!" comments New York director Nathaniel Merchant. "Here is an
antidote to the scurrilous but seductive play by Shakespeare. Fripp
shocks with his skillful and uncanny use of verse and his portrait of
Richard as a man, not a caricature or stock villain".
"It's not wildly revisionist", says Fripp."Dark Sovereign seldom gives
Richard's character more benefit of the doubt than you find in reliable
histories. Dark Sovereign runs close to the northern counties' long-held
view of Richard as a benign, capable ruler: He was caught between a rock
and a hard place in a smouldering civil war (England's Wars of the
Roses) that went up in flames. Dark Sovereign dramatises the snake-pit
of that conflict with a human, not a demonic, face. It's a stronger
story without Shakespeare's character assassination".
Art historian Claude Marks, who moved from London to lecture at New
York's Metropolitan Museum, called Dark Sovereign "a cultural
accomplishment of the highest order". Not only that: Dark Sovereign runs
longer than Hamlet. Overnight it becomes the longest play written in
Renaissance English.
"Many authors, including Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the four teams
of scholars who produced the King James Bible were writing in what we
call 'the Golden Age' of the English language", says Fripp. "It's a
beautiful language. It's mine and it's yours. It's yours to read, too!"
He should know. As a boy, Fripp won a choral scholarship into Salisbury
Cathedral choir where he chanted and sang sixteenth century English for
five years.
Fripp took an earlier foray into history using the language of that
period. Introduced by novelist John Fowles, Fripp's The Becoming, (Let
There Be Life in North America), is an audacious retelling of the
Genesis creation story from a scientific point of view. Later, in Power
of a Woman. Memoirs of ... Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fripp wrote the
first-person memoirs of one of Europe's most charismatic women. Now a
copywriter and consultant at The Impact Group in Toronto, he will soon
publish New Wessex Tales, a short story collection set in his native
English county, Dorset. RobertFripp dot ca offers excerpts and reviews
of several works.
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More Information
Information: Robert Fripp (416) 481-7070 x29 (Toronto office, 10:00 -
4:30 EST)
Email addresses: r_fripp@... <mailto:r_fripp@...> ||
<rfripp@... <mailto:rfripp@...> >
Websites: RobertFripp.ca/ || Linkedin.com/in/robertfripp (Toronto
area)
Read excerpts: RobertFripp.ca >Menu >Dark Sovereign >Excerpts
Read excerpts 2: Booklocker.com/books/5695.html
<http://booklocker.com/books/5695.html> >Read excerpts (two scenes)
Reviewers: Request the full text in PDF. Read current reviews (Comments)
at RobertFripp.ca/
Purchase: Print-on-Demand Paperback (240 pp), available from...
Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> (U.S.),
BarnesandNoble.com <http://BarnesandNoble.com/> , Amazon.com
<http://Amazon.com/> , Amazon.ca <http://Amazon.ca/> , Amazon.co.uk
<http://Amazon.co.uk/>
Booksellers: Ingram Book Company stocks `Dark Sovereign'
e-Books: Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> will offer a PDF
eBook. Technical limits currently prevent device-specific book format
versions.
Re: Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
2011-09-23 05:25:56
well done and congrats to you robert! quite an accomplishment.
roslyn
--- On Thu, 9/22/11, Robert Fripp <r_fripp@...> wrote:
From: Robert Fripp <r_fripp@...>
Subject: Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
To:
Received: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 2:51 PM
'Dark Sovereign' is published again. I mailed privately printed
copies from a small edition over twenty years ago. After more work, here
is the final thing. The end of my media release, below, lists sites
selling POD paperback copies of 'Dark Sovereign' to the U.K, Canada and
the U.S. First, you can read 19 pages of excerpts on my URL as well as
an 11-page 'The Owner's Manual' (Introduction, in modern English!) which
gives a complete history of how 'Dark Sovereign' came to be and the
paradigm within which I built it. As before, I expect heavy criticism to
drop from a great height, thrown by the Shakespeare establishment, but I
guess one doesn't write the longest play in Renaissance English without
taking flak. As well as the 19 pages on my site, Booklocker.com lets you
read two complete scenes with footnotes. This edition follows standard
Arden editions of Tudor and Stuart plays, placing relevant footnotes at
the foot of appropriate pages. The only e-Book edition is pure PDF from
Booklocker (U.S.), because 'Dark Sovereign' has over 700 footnotes, and
technology can't yet cope with massed footnotes. / Robert Fripp
Media Release -- for Immediate Release:
Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
Toronto September 22, 2011 For the first time in four
centuries a modern writer has challenged William Shakespeare by writing
a full-length play in the Bard's Renaissance Englishfluently.
Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Richard the Third as Tudor propaganda
for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I, portraying King Richard III as a
misshapen sociopath and killer. Author and copywriter Robert Fripp, the
former series producer of CBC-TV's long-running investigative program,
The Fifth Estate, took four years to pen his counter-attack on
Shakespeare's play. Fripp's Dark Sovereign tells the real tale of
Richard's troubled reign.
"At last!" comments New York director Nathaniel Merchant. "Here is an
antidote to the scurrilous but seductive play by Shakespeare. Fripp
shocks with his skillful and uncanny use of verse and his portrait of
Richard as a man, not a caricature or stock villain".
"It's not wildly revisionist", says Fripp."Dark Sovereign seldom gives
Richard's character more benefit of the doubt than you find in reliable
histories. Dark Sovereign runs close to the northern counties' long-held
view of Richard as a benign, capable ruler: He was caught between a rock
and a hard place in a smouldering civil war (England's Wars of the
Roses) that went up in flames. Dark Sovereign dramatises the snake-pit
of that conflict with a human, not a demonic, face. It's a stronger
story without Shakespeare's character assassination".
Art historian Claude Marks, who moved from London to lecture at New
York's Metropolitan Museum, called Dark Sovereign "a cultural
accomplishment of the highest order". Not only that: Dark Sovereign runs
longer than Hamlet. Overnight it becomes the longest play written in
Renaissance English.
"Many authors, including Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the four teams
of scholars who produced the King James Bible were writing in what we
call 'the Golden Age' of the English language", says Fripp. "It's a
beautiful language. It's mine and it's yours. It's yours to read, too!"
He should know. As a boy, Fripp won a choral scholarship into Salisbury
Cathedral choir where he chanted and sang sixteenth century English for
five years.
Fripp took an earlier foray into history using the language of that
period. Introduced by novelist John Fowles, Fripp's The Becoming, (Let
There Be Life in North America), is an audacious retelling of the
Genesis creation story from a scientific point of view. Later, in Power
of a Woman. Memoirs of ... Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fripp wrote the
first-person memoirs of one of Europe's most charismatic women. Now a
copywriter and consultant at The Impact Group in Toronto, he will soon
publish New Wessex Tales, a short story collection set in his native
English county, Dorset. RobertFripp dot ca offers excerpts and reviews
of several works.
-30-
More Information
Information: Robert Fripp (416) 481-7070 x29 (Toronto office, 10:00 -
4:30 EST)
Email addresses: r_fripp@... <mailto:r_fripp@...> ||
<rfripp@... <mailto:rfripp@...> >
Websites: RobertFripp.ca/ || Linkedin.com/in/robertfripp (Toronto
area)
Read excerpts: RobertFripp.ca >Menu >Dark Sovereign >Excerpts
Read excerpts 2: Booklocker.com/books/5695.html
<http://booklocker.com/books/5695.html> >Read excerpts (two scenes)
Reviewers: Request the full text in PDF. Read current reviews (Comments)
at RobertFripp.ca/
Purchase: Print-on-Demand Paperback (240 pp), available from...
Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> (U.S.),
BarnesandNoble.com <http://BarnesandNoble.com/> , Amazon.com
<http://Amazon.com/> , Amazon.ca <http://Amazon.ca/> , Amazon.co.uk
<http://Amazon.co.uk/>
Booksellers: Ingram Book Company stocks `Dark Sovereign'
e-Books: Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> will offer a PDF
eBook. Technical limits currently prevent device-specific book format
versions.
roslyn
--- On Thu, 9/22/11, Robert Fripp <r_fripp@...> wrote:
From: Robert Fripp <r_fripp@...>
Subject: Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
To:
Received: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 2:51 PM
'Dark Sovereign' is published again. I mailed privately printed
copies from a small edition over twenty years ago. After more work, here
is the final thing. The end of my media release, below, lists sites
selling POD paperback copies of 'Dark Sovereign' to the U.K, Canada and
the U.S. First, you can read 19 pages of excerpts on my URL as well as
an 11-page 'The Owner's Manual' (Introduction, in modern English!) which
gives a complete history of how 'Dark Sovereign' came to be and the
paradigm within which I built it. As before, I expect heavy criticism to
drop from a great height, thrown by the Shakespeare establishment, but I
guess one doesn't write the longest play in Renaissance English without
taking flak. As well as the 19 pages on my site, Booklocker.com lets you
read two complete scenes with footnotes. This edition follows standard
Arden editions of Tudor and Stuart plays, placing relevant footnotes at
the foot of appropriate pages. The only e-Book edition is pure PDF from
Booklocker (U.S.), because 'Dark Sovereign' has over 700 footnotes, and
technology can't yet cope with massed footnotes. / Robert Fripp
Media Release -- for Immediate Release:
Playwright slams Shakespeare, boosts Richard III
Toronto September 22, 2011 For the first time in four
centuries a modern writer has challenged William Shakespeare by writing
a full-length play in the Bard's Renaissance Englishfluently.
Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Richard the Third as Tudor propaganda
for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I, portraying King Richard III as a
misshapen sociopath and killer. Author and copywriter Robert Fripp, the
former series producer of CBC-TV's long-running investigative program,
The Fifth Estate, took four years to pen his counter-attack on
Shakespeare's play. Fripp's Dark Sovereign tells the real tale of
Richard's troubled reign.
"At last!" comments New York director Nathaniel Merchant. "Here is an
antidote to the scurrilous but seductive play by Shakespeare. Fripp
shocks with his skillful and uncanny use of verse and his portrait of
Richard as a man, not a caricature or stock villain".
"It's not wildly revisionist", says Fripp."Dark Sovereign seldom gives
Richard's character more benefit of the doubt than you find in reliable
histories. Dark Sovereign runs close to the northern counties' long-held
view of Richard as a benign, capable ruler: He was caught between a rock
and a hard place in a smouldering civil war (England's Wars of the
Roses) that went up in flames. Dark Sovereign dramatises the snake-pit
of that conflict with a human, not a demonic, face. It's a stronger
story without Shakespeare's character assassination".
Art historian Claude Marks, who moved from London to lecture at New
York's Metropolitan Museum, called Dark Sovereign "a cultural
accomplishment of the highest order". Not only that: Dark Sovereign runs
longer than Hamlet. Overnight it becomes the longest play written in
Renaissance English.
"Many authors, including Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the four teams
of scholars who produced the King James Bible were writing in what we
call 'the Golden Age' of the English language", says Fripp. "It's a
beautiful language. It's mine and it's yours. It's yours to read, too!"
He should know. As a boy, Fripp won a choral scholarship into Salisbury
Cathedral choir where he chanted and sang sixteenth century English for
five years.
Fripp took an earlier foray into history using the language of that
period. Introduced by novelist John Fowles, Fripp's The Becoming, (Let
There Be Life in North America), is an audacious retelling of the
Genesis creation story from a scientific point of view. Later, in Power
of a Woman. Memoirs of ... Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fripp wrote the
first-person memoirs of one of Europe's most charismatic women. Now a
copywriter and consultant at The Impact Group in Toronto, he will soon
publish New Wessex Tales, a short story collection set in his native
English county, Dorset. RobertFripp dot ca offers excerpts and reviews
of several works.
-30-
More Information
Information: Robert Fripp (416) 481-7070 x29 (Toronto office, 10:00 -
4:30 EST)
Email addresses: r_fripp@... <mailto:r_fripp@...> ||
<rfripp@... <mailto:rfripp@...> >
Websites: RobertFripp.ca/ || Linkedin.com/in/robertfripp (Toronto
area)
Read excerpts: RobertFripp.ca >Menu >Dark Sovereign >Excerpts
Read excerpts 2: Booklocker.com/books/5695.html
<http://booklocker.com/books/5695.html> >Read excerpts (two scenes)
Reviewers: Request the full text in PDF. Read current reviews (Comments)
at RobertFripp.ca/
Purchase: Print-on-Demand Paperback (240 pp), available from...
Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> (U.S.),
BarnesandNoble.com <http://BarnesandNoble.com/> , Amazon.com
<http://Amazon.com/> , Amazon.ca <http://Amazon.ca/> , Amazon.co.uk
<http://Amazon.co.uk/>
Booksellers: Ingram Book Company stocks `Dark Sovereign'
e-Books: Booklocker.com <http://Booklocker.com/> will offer a PDF
eBook. Technical limits currently prevent device-specific book format
versions.
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