I’ve been editing the play Pericles – that sprawling romance of families scattered and the rejoined, written by William Shakespeare and (almost certainly) inn-keeper and persistent criminal George Wilkins.
I wonder how this newly altered anthology would have been classified had it been returned to the library for circulation.
Would it be listed as, 'Shakespeare, William and George Wilkins. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Act 1 Anthology. A revised edition, altered by Adam Smyth. Oxford: Smyth Press (knife), 2024’?
I cut pages out of books so often but I always use a scalpel. Always! I like the rough edge of the bread knife though - definitely adds something to this.
Yes there is a nice sense of approximation with the bread knife. Also it put the play text into a group with food (esp. bread), rather than the body (with the scalpel).
hmm are you saying then that the play Pericles is more concerned with food than bodies? Or that the body is food for the protagonists or the playwright....
I am no Viper, yet I feed / On mother's flesh
or that your approach is more like cooking than surgery...
I don't know here I am going with this absurd analysis but it is fun!
I wonder how this newly altered anthology would have been classified had it been returned to the library for circulation.
Would it be listed as, 'Shakespeare, William and George Wilkins. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Act 1 Anthology. A revised edition, altered by Adam Smyth. Oxford: Smyth Press (knife), 2024’?
I love that!
I cut pages out of books so often but I always use a scalpel. Always! I like the rough edge of the bread knife though - definitely adds something to this.
Yes there is a nice sense of approximation with the bread knife. Also it put the play text into a group with food (esp. bread), rather than the body (with the scalpel).
A breadknife has always been an indispensable instrument of the bookbinder's art, I'm told
We hurt the ones we most love. 💔
hmm are you saying then that the play Pericles is more concerned with food than bodies? Or that the body is food for the protagonists or the playwright....
I am no Viper, yet I feed / On mother's flesh
or that your approach is more like cooking than surgery...
I don't know here I am going with this absurd analysis but it is fun!