Letter from the Editors:

Dearest Readers,

What light through yonder journal breaks? It’s the 15th issue of Deep Overstock: Shakespeare! We could bardly contain ourselves while reading all of your submissions.

This issue we have pieces that are Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories, and Problem Plays, just like the great playwright himself. We’ve got Ophelias, Caesars, Juliets, Antonys, Hamlets, hags, and witches. What a super cast of characters.

Speaking of super characters, submissions for Issue 16: Superheroes are open from now until February 28th. Up, up, and away, dear readers!

Yours, until the curtain falls,
Deep Overstock Editors

(Cover art: The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre, George Cruikshank, 1864-1865)

Listen to the pieces on the DO Fiction Podcast: Episode 1 on Spotify Episode 2 on Spotify

Comedies

Dr. Thomas Davison – Shakespeare Imprisoned
Frank De Canio – Bottom
Kate Falvey – A Bard in the Forest of Arden; The Hag in the Tree
James Hall – Yarrow Spells
Jen Mierisch – “The Merry Real Housewives of Windsor” and Other Modern Shakespearean Adaptations
Wilda Morris – Even Shakespeare Knew, a Mesostic Poem; On Appointing a Committee Chairperson: a Golden Shovel Poem; Quoting Scripture: a Snake Poem
Kathryn Paulsen – VIOLA’S SONG
John Sullivan – Prospero & Company Go Way Off Book
Elizabeth Sylvia – Dear Helena,; Emilia at the Curtain; Ringed
Nicholas Yandell – Antonio’s Waves: (A meditation on Twelfth Night)

Tragedies

John Davis – Iago Resides Inside the Insane Asylum
Frank De Canio – Her Peacock Feathers (as a Montague antagonist)
RC deWinter – shakespeare zombie
David de Young – A Short Summary of the Aubade from Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 5
Anna Laura Falvey – Weirds to Stage
Kate Falvey – Ophelia Laughs
Teresa Sari FitzPatrick – Sonnet At Last
Ed Higgins – Ophelia
Valerie Hunter – Mercutio’s Lament
Karla Linn Merrifield – Parsing #3
Wilda Morris – Shakespeare Did Not Know How My Mother Would Die: a Trimeric Poem
Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay – Ode to Cordelia
James B. Nicola – A Carving
Timothy Arliss OBrien – A Shakespearean curse
Kathryn Paulsen – SHAKESPEARE’S GHOST
Debbie Peters – To My Last Syllable
Roy Schreiber – A POUND OF FLESH
Elizabeth Sylvia – Weird Sisters
Z.B. Wagman – Night is Over and Day is Almost Here

Histories

Maev Barba – Elevator Macbeth
Mickey Collins – The Truth about Shakespeare
Chaitra Kotasthane – Calpurnia’s Speech after Caesar’s Death
Wilda Morris – Antony Wrestles with His Love for Cleopatra: a Cento; Cordelia’s Wisdom for Today
Elizabeth Sylvia – Reading and Writing about Shakespeare; Slow as the Elephant; Understudy

Problems

A.G. Angevine – Me; You
Greg Bell – Shakespeare Replies to Attacks on Theatre
Lynette G. Esposito – A Feral Cat Named Shakespeare; The Bard Cowboy; When Shakespeare Wrote a Haiku
Bogdan Groza – A Bard and his Shadow
Farnilf P. – Words Are Lies — Magical Antidote #2
Elizabeth Sylvia – Palinode: Shakespeare’s Women
K.B. Thomas – The Eternal

Editorial

Editors-In-Chief: Mickey Collins & Robert Eversmann
Managing Editors: Michael Santiago & Z.B. Wagman
Poetry: Jihye Shin
Prose: Michael Santiago & Z.B. Wagman
Copyeditor: A.G. Angevine