Shaksperean Fly-Leaves and Jottings Book

Overall, an excellent book ... and one to which I will return again and again. I think the major theme - that there are tradeoffs and costs with each cut - sounds clearly, and the wealth of detail is simply astonishing. Both for scholar and director, this book contains fascinating insight. Dessen perhaps too often betrays on which side of that divide he falls by something of a failure to understand the in-the-room decisions a director makes, but that's honestly a minor point. The minutae he records can be overwhelming at times, but it's well worth it. The specificity of the examples are what we make me glad I own this, and can refer to it again and again.