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Oliver Marks.

If We Were Villains · 2017

Shakespeare conservatory, seven actors, one dead body. Oliver’s reading list is the entire First Folio plus the modern criticism that haunts him for ten years.

"For some of us, the line is hard to find."

3 booksCurated · cited · cross-referenced

The shelf, decoded

Why this list.

Oliver Marks lives inside Shakespeare. The list below is the production-year Dellecher syllabus, plus the modern criticism the cast circulate between rehearsals.

The reading list

3 books for Oliver.

No. 01On screen
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
The fall production. The play that becomes the murder weapon.
CitationNovel, central
No. 02On screen
King Lear
William Shakespeare
The winter production. The play whose grief outlives the plot.
CitationNovel, Act 4
No. 03On screen
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
The spring production. The play that lets them, briefly, forgive each other.
CitationNovel, Act 5