From the author of Weaver in the Sluices and Diddle comes this controversial, self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary academia. The works of 'Divine Will, ' as he is referred to throughout, have been confined to a vacuum, and almost biblically so in how the scripts have become wilfully detached from their moorings of time and place. In this hybridised long 'Proem, ' Staniforth goes to absurd lengths of reattachment, gladly playing havoc with the swirling dictums and counter-dictums of his time, gleefully seeking to subvert the tautological authority of the neck-frilled academicians over the historical groundlings of the pit. Elements of satire, parody and burlesque are interposed as hagiographical substitutions made for the purposes of irony and deconstruction. The reader will be initiated into the amalgamated and timeless world of the Groundlings to see how their invective gospel simply illustrates how discourse, rhetoric and that grandiloquent power of oration serves as the strongest definition for our collective place in histor

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"Written in period vernacular and ablaze with fire, the killing of heretics, sorcerers, witches, mediums and wizards, classical and mythological references, the Gods of love, which seep in and out of the plays, the book highlights the themes that would have been more pronounced in Shakespeare's time. The groundlings, imbued with folklore and paganism, see what characters represent and hide, connect Hamlet with Dr. Dee, note the shadowy characters, enjoy Iago's lies, Lear's fool and Hamlet's gravedigger and all the allegories...
It is great fun and highly recommended."
- Tears in the Fence

"I read through The Groundlings of Divine Will yesterday evening, getting more enthused with it the further I progressed, as what at first looked as if it might be a mildly amusing academic squib turned out to be a wildly bemusing cultural banger..."
-- Gareth Knight

"I could just see him sitting in a candled room in Mortlake, letting rip with his companion, saying all those things about Will that others can't or won't see, and probably doesn't see himself. It actually reads out loud rather well, like a barbarous invocation of arcane and possibly unknowable powers."
-- Alan Richardson

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