Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 1, No. 107. Monday, 19 Nov 1990. (1) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 08:48:30 EST (19 lines) From:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Laurie E. Osborne) Subject: Mystery Spinoff (2) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 10:23 EST (18 lines) From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS> Subject: Shakespearean spinoffs (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 08:48:30 EST From:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Laurie E. Osborne) Subject: Mystery Spinoff There are a number of mysteries which take place in conjunction with Shakespearean productions. Linda Barnes has one called, predictably, _Blood will Have Blood_ which uses Macbeth. There is one of Martha Grimes's mysteries, the solution to which revolves around a production of _Othello_ in which the actor playing Othello murders the girl playing Desdemona; I'm not sure of the title but I'll check. I have been trying for some time to locate a mystery reviewed in the NYT Book Review in which the detective was named Hamnet Arden, a direct descendent of the Bard who solved the mystery, according to the reviewer, by referring to Renaissance plays. Ring any bells? Laurie OsborneThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------22---- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 10:23 EST From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS> Subject: Shakespearean spinoffs No one has yet mentioned Anthony Burgess's *Nothing Like the Sun*, a fictional biography of WS, done up in Burgess's 20th century Renaissance prose. (It contains a particularly graphic description of the hanging, drawing, and quartering of Lopez, the Queen's physician.) And then there is another Burgess novel, *Enderby's Dark Lady*, the third of his Enderby novels, this one a sort of sci-fi, contemporary, historical melange. If memory serves me correctly, Burgess also published a scene from a projected musical based on the life of Shakespeare. It appeared, I believe, in *Esquire*, sometime in the early 70s(?)