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...discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes. "When you read Middleton, you get the sense that the world he wrote about is the world we live in now, with all the moral dilemmas we face and the things that shape our identities," says Gary Taylor, a leading Shakespeare scholar at Florida State University and co-editor of the new Middleton collection. "He's a great writer, who reaches out from the past and punches you in the stomach...
Until now, though, only a handful of Middleton's plays have been in print at any one time; English teachers could slip one into a course on Shakespeare's contemporaries, and theaters could dust a few of them off every couple of years, but nothing more. Taylor was convinced that the only way to get Middleton his groove back was to collect everything he ever wrote in one book, giving people the choice they never had before. He was so convinced that, along with co-editor John Lavagnino and 73 other contributors - who helped edit the texts and wrote critical...
...Taylor, who previously co-edited The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, is part of a growing cohort of critics who regard Middleton as Shakespeare's equal in wordplay and storytelling. "His is a darkly comic and unsparing view of human nature," says Gail Kern Paster, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. "He has a witty and inventive spirit, and several of his plays are as great as any plays that Shakespeare wrote," she adds, citing The Changeling, Women, Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy as examples. The idea now is to push him as a grittier, edgier...
...helm or the positions they play, but rather the complementary nature of their personalities. After 28 years of individual Harvard captains and one disappointing 2006-07 season, they have been called upon to lead the Crimson as a unit: outspoken Dave MacDonald and soft-spoken Mike Taylor, the natural leader and the consummate professional...
...season, he is quick to recognize the tremendous talent surrounding him. “We don’t really have one guy we’re looking to—we have a lot of guys,” Meintel says. Other offensive threats include co-captain Mike Taylor, who scored 10 goals last season, and senior forward Jon Pelle, who had nine goals. “This year, we have a lot of seniors that can score,” Meintel says. “We have a pretty dominant attack throughout the lineup, so I think you?...