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OUTSIDE SHAKESPEARE
A MEMOIR
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RAYMOND POWELL |
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Shakespeare has long been a part of my life, as he has for many people, and it's easy to feel that his work incorporates every facet of human experience. But in writing this memoir of our family, it struck me how very much we were 'outside Shakespeare'. Hence the title.
Of course all families are dysfunctional to a degree, but I think ours can at least claim to have been interestingly dysfunctional. The events and situations described here still seem to me at the very least highly unusual. |
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If you do decide to read the memoir, I hope you find it intriguing. Apart from the curiosity that we all have about other people's lives, the story taken as a whole, as I suggest in the Introduction, also raises some of those larger questions that life throws up for all of us from time to time, together with the difficulty in finding answers. Then again, as in the case of my brother, the answers when they appear may sometimes prove more disturbing than the questions that gave rise to them.
rwpowell@onetel.com
April 2008 |
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To read Outside Shakespeare |
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For a brief glance, in order to see what it's all about, the 6-page Introduction can be viewed either as a PDF document, or it can be read directly with your browser in HTML. If you then want to read further, the complete text is also accessible as a PDF document or in HTML. The memoir is quite long - about 80,000 words (32Mb) - and this means unfortunately that it is unsuitable for downloading as a PDF file for anyone with a dial-up connection; it would take for ever. Broadband is pretty much a necessity, and even then the download may take a few minutes. Most computers will open the document automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader which can be downloaded from the link below: 
A final option is that the text can be bought as a paperback, via lulu.com from the link below, for £6.00 (plus £3.75 post and packing to the UK; other locations may be different). 
This is the only version that has to be paid for, as the PDF and HTML versions are both free of charge. |
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Introduction - PDF Introduction - HTML |
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Complete text - PDF Complete text - HTML |
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