Writer's Block: Reading Aloud

[fajrdrako]

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Shakespeare.

I can think of others, too.

I have heard a lot of my favourite authors read from their works: Dorothy Dunnett, Guy Gavriel Kay, Karin Lowachee. It was wonderful.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I am not sure how to count Shakespeare, seeing as how he's a playwright and all -- though he did perform in his own plays (as you know, Bob), and of course my first stop when I get that time machine is the original Globe!

My less-complicated answer, though, is definitely Chaucer.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Part of the reason for my answer is that I would have loved to have seen Shakespeare as an actor. And to hear his take on his own works would be delicious. Or to ask him questions. None of this nonsense like "What Hamlet man?", I want to know the ins and outs with the Fair Lord and the Dark Lady. (So paparazzi-like of me!)

Chaucer: yes!

I was also considering Milton and Donne.