[Return to Texts and Authorship] [Return to main table of contents] Brooks 1996a, 1996b, 1996c; Durrant 1977-78; Fraser 1997, forthcoming (a), forthcoming (b); Graham 1985 , 1989 Maeder 1992; Watanabe 1973.
When you return to the text, you immediately see what you meant to highlight.
Our journey can be accessed by flipping the iPad round into the landscape aspect, and back into portrait to return to the text.
When you return to the text and compare your own remembered version with Shakespeare's original, you learn a lot about his genius.
Then an old adage came ringing back into my head, a nugget of advice intended for leading roles but surely just as applicable to cameos: "When you are struggling to unlock a part, at all times return to the text.
Beck points out how important it is that Rilke should be re-translated in every new generation by writers who "return to the text – and themselves – rather than their predecessors".
So it's chastening to return to the text and find that he is both cognisant of his own power and unafraid to exercise it: "He took his place at the Council Rock … when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun".
After being involved with Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts for the past 18 years, and after four months of living in Jerusalem seeing the current situation up close, I am feeling called to return to the text.
