A Muse of Fire: A Play Arranged from the Works of Shakespeare

Merle McClung compiled "A Muse of Fire" from the works of Shakespeare in 1965 as a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford. The play gathered dust on Mr. McClung's library shelves until 2014 when failing health convinced him to publish it before it ended up in a landfill. Reading some of Shakespeare's most beloved poetry in a different context has obvious drawbacks, but also enables Shakespeare lovers to appreciate him in a new light. Prince Hal, Falstaff, Hotspur, Hamlet, and other luminaries come together in surprising symmetry as the play transitions from comic fantasy to the historic tragedy of war. The "Use Muse" section suggests challenging tests and stimulating games for literary-inclined adults to identify the source of selections from "A Muse of Fire."

Author: Merle McClung
Publisher: Half Court Press
Published: 01/23/2015
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780692374191

About the Author
Merle McClung is a former Harvard basketball star, Rhodes Scholar, and "Goodhead" lawyer. He lives in a big box in Centennial, Colorado surrounded by more than 50,000 books collected since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1972. Likely epitaph: "He always had room for another book."

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