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WORK TITLE: I Was Cleopatra
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BIRTHDATE: 1960
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CITY: Houston
STATE: TX
COUNTRY: United States
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PERSONAL
Born 1960; partner’s name David.
EDUCATION:Attended Antioch College.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Writer, blogger, restaurant and book critic, and novelist. Publishing Perspectives, freelance contributor, 2009-2011, contributing editor for children’s publications and media, 2011–; Also Publishers Weekly southern correspondent.
WRITINGS
Contributor to Houston Chronicle Online.
SIDELIGHTS
Dennis Abrams is the author of more than thirty young adult (YA) biographies and history books, as well as the author of The Play’s the Thing, a YA guide to William Shakespeare’s plays. Abrams is also a blogger and a restaurant and book critic. “Dennis has the most eclectic career of any writer I know,” wrote Chron website contributor Lisa Gray, who went on to note: “Sometimes he writes snarky reviews of books or restaurants; recently, he reviewed a coloring book,” adding that Abrams also “writes the world’s most solemn kind of books: the sort sold directly to middle-school libraries for the betterment of young minds.”
In his debut YA novel, I Was Cleopatra, Abrams tells the story of John Rice. The novel draws from the real-life John Rice, believed by some scholars to have originated the roles of Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and Cordelia when the plays they appear in were first produced in Shakespeare’s time. The real Rice was one of the twenty-six “principal actors” named on a list of Shakespeare’s Players. Rice’s father apprenticed him to a drama troupe, and Rice ended up a member of the acting troupe at the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare helped him learn the craft of acting. Rice eventually retired in 1625 to become a parish clerk.
In the fictional memoir I Was Cleopatra, John Rice narrates his own tale when he is thirty-five years old and looking back on his early life as a beautiful and widely acclaimed boy actor. The novel follows him from the time of his birth. John’s father is a successful glove maker, and John is only one of seven children. However, he is the second son, meaning anything his father bequeaths after his death will go to the older son. John finds he has no talent for glove making and is searching for his place in the world. Then the famous theatrical troupe from London comes to his town of Reading. Absorbed in the plays and the actors, especially the role of Rosalind played by a young boy named Alexander, John becomes an apprentice to the troupe.
John is thirteen years old at the time. Because of his youth and beauty, John ends up playing various female roles, a result of the fact that in Shakespeare’s time women were not permitted to act on stage. John relates how he started out as an apprentice boy actor and then developed his skills in order to play female roles. “Throughout, he becomes aware of gender performativity and sexuality,” wrote Maggi Reagan in Booklist, pointing out that John also as grows as a person.
John eventually takes over the female roles as Alexander becomes too old to play them. John and Alexander start out as friends but eventually become lovers. John also works closely with the great playwright himself. Shakespeare helps John work out the proper way to play female characters, including Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra. The story is “broken up with snippets of Shakespeare that are used to illustrate the roles that John Rice learned in his apprenticeship, and his maturation from small speaking parts to major roles,” wrote Anne Letain in Resource Links.
Nevertheless, John becomes increasingly concerned as he grows older, realizing that soon he will be too old to be a convincingly play a woman. As a result, John finds that he has some important choices to make. Nevertheless, he continues to act male parts in adult roles and even becomes a shareholder in the acting company. He also gets married, but his wife’s death in childbirth leads him to quit acting and commit himself to the Church.
“Abrams’s discussion of gender fluidity and sexuality are among the novel’s most intriguing aspects,” wrote a Publishers Weekly contributor. A Kirkus Reviews contributor called I Was Cleopatra “a thought-provoking work that will encourage readers to learn more about the world of Elizabethan theater.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, April 1, 2018, Maggie Reagan, review of I Was Cleopatra, p. 72.
Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2018, review of I Was Cleopatra.
Publishers Weekly, February 26, 2018, review of I Was Cleopatra, p. 94.
Resource Links, April, 2018. Anne Letain, review of I Was Cleopatra, p. 25.
School Library Journal, April, 2018, Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, review of I Was Cleopatra, p. 126.
ONLINE
Chron, https://www.chron.com/ (October 14, 2011), Lisa Gray, “Reading group to Tackle Shakespeare’s Plays.”
Houston Chronicle Online, https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ (August 10, 2017), Dennis Abrams, “‘I feel my brain melting away,'” article about partner’s dementia; (February 6, 2018), Dennis Abrams, “My husband’s dementia. And my doubts.”
'I feel my brain melting away'
Writer Dennis Abrams is watching his partner disappear from dementia
Dennis Abrams, for the Houston ChronicleAugust 10, 2017 Updated: August 10, 2017 1:28pm
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Time, which has never been David's friend, is not on his side. Photo: Andrew Brookes / Getty Images Photo: Andrew Brookes / Getty Images Time, which has never been David's friend, is not on his side.
"I feel my brain melting away."
That is David's description of what it feels like as his early-onset dementia continues on its relentless march of destruction through his brain.
The writer in me imagines another visual analogy: Termites, hungrily eating their way through his mind, chewing up and destroying anything and everything in their path.
Time, which has never been his friend, is not on his side. From my perspective, and his, things are moving quickly. Far more quickly than seems possible.
Which means that with most of the legal paperwork complete, we are now on to our next big decision: When the time comes, which now appears to be sooner rather than later, will he choose home care or assisted living?
I say "he" deliberately. The decision will be his and his alone.
LAST WEEK we visited an assisted living facility not far from our home.
I had been warned by friends that it would be difficult, if not traumatic. Seeing the residents there, whose illnesses would be in a far more advanced state than David's, could be, I was told, a punch in the gut. A reality check. A look at his future.
And given that he'd had a couple of bad days before we went: panicking about what he had to do to finish and close up his practice, taking four hours to figure out how to open a pdf, and then, the morning of our visit, unable to detach a word document that he was afraid he had deleted anyway to an email he couldn't manage to send, I feared for the worse.
I KNEW IT WAS COMING: Watching David disappear
It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It was actually – nice.
The rooms were small, but well organized. The residents, except for one older woman in a wheelchair who began loudly crying when game time was over, seemed content, if not actually happy.
It honestly felt more like a boarding house, or perhaps a B&B popular among the elderly, than an institution.
But most importantly, David seemed comfortable. He asked questions about what his day-to-day life would be like, whether he could do this and that, would he be able to have a TV in his room, and the like.
When we went back to the office, he answered the administrator's questions about how it started and how he's doing now.
"It came on very gradually. I really noticed that my brain wasn't working as well as it used to, significantly. I had a hard time figuring out simple things, things I used to do all the time like emails, how to use an email, things like that," he said.
"I used to sit and think about things all the now time, but now inside my head it feels empty and numb. Blank. No thoughts going around. Before, I would usually think about something science or whatever or something, now I'm sort of happy to sit and not think."
Writer Dennis Abrams and David, his partner of 30 years. Photo: Courtesy Dennis Abrams Photo: Courtesy Dennis Abrams Writer Dennis Abrams and David, his partner of 30 years.
It was difficult to listen to him tell someone else these things so matter-of-factly, to watch the struggle on his face as he searched for the words.
My husband's dementia. And my doubts.
Watching David disappear: An occasional series
Dennis AbramsFebruary 6, 2018 Updated: February 6, 2018 3:28pm
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Dennis Abrams, left, and his partner, David Fox in their home on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Houston. Fox was diagnosed with dementia. Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / © 2017 Houston Chronicle Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle Dennis Abrams, left, and his partner, David Fox in their home on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Houston. Fox was diagnosed with dementia.
Now that things are in motion and other things are getting checked off the to do list as we get ready to move David to Mexico mid-March and the reality of what is about to happen sets in, I try, on occasion, to step back and try and figure out where I'm at, what I'm thinking and feeling about everything that's happening.
But for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
In many ways, I feel like I'm on autopilot. I feel overwhelmed. I feel like I'm drowning. Like everything is spinning out of control.
I'm doing all the things I need to do for David, all the things that need to get done, again, for David and putting everything else, including myself, on the back burner.
I need to start thinking about publicity for the YA novel I have coming out in April. I need to get going on rewrites for my next book. The house, yard, storage area and garage are all disaster areas that need serious cleaning and purging. I need to get new glasses so I can get my license renewed. I need to think about myself and what's next.
But all that will have to wait.
A lot of things will have to wait. There's only so much I can do and deal with at one time.
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For example, last week David made a call to CenterPoint I strongly suggested he shouldn't make, one that began with a leak outside the house that they already knew about and had marked for repair and that resulted in them coming inside the house and turning off the gas. And now it will only end when we have the entire house's gas lines rerouted, which is going to take a few more days at least because every plumber in town is still backed up because of Harvey and the freeze.
That alone was enough to make me want to run away from home.
So there's that. On top of getting David ready for Mexico and everything else.
So I'm overwhelmed. I feel, even though I know it's not true, that I'm alone in all this. I feel whiplashed with guilt and relief and sadness, and, and, and. Are we doing the right thing? Is it time? Is it too early? Am I, by not encouraging him to stay, encouraging him to go? Am I doing the right thing?
Is there even a right thing in this situation?
For the most part, he seems ready and even eager to go. But there are also the bouts of paranoia when he accuses me of pushing him out of the house with just a suitcase so that I can ... well, whatever it is he thinks I'm going to do.
And then the guilt comes rushing in. Because the truth is there's a part of me that will feel a great sense of relief when he's in Mexico, and I can get my life back.
I've made it clear, though, that the decision is entirely up to him. If he wants to stay here, I'll do my best to take care of him. If he wants to go, I back him in that decision, as well.
There is a part of me that is glad he wants to go. Not just for him, though deep down I truly believe it's the best thing for him.
But for me, as well.
Abrams, right, is putting everything else, including himself, on the back burner. Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / © 2017 Houston Chronicle Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle Abrams, right, is putting everything else, including himself, on the back burner.
I know that sounds selfish. Maybe it is. A reader responded to my last piece saying that I was "abandoning" David, adding that it's "easy to bail out when they won't remember you" and "I assume you left the 'for better or worse' out of your vows."
Dennis Abrams
Dennis Abrams is the southern correspondent for Publishers Weekly. He has written more than thirty young adult biographies and history books. He is also the author of The Play’s the Thing, a complete young adult guide to the plays of William Shakespeare. I Was Cleopatra is his first novel. He lives in Houston.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dennis Abrams
Dennis Abrams is a contributing editor for Publishing Perspectives, responsible for news, children's publishing and media. He's also a restaurant critic, literary blogger, and the author of "The Play's The Thing," a complete YA guide to the plays of William Shakespeare published by Pentian, as well as more than 30 YA biographies and histories for Chelsea House publishers.
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Dennis Abrams is the author of more than thirty titles for the young adult market, including biographies of such figures as Xerxes, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Albert Pujols, Barbara Park, Eminem, H.G. Wells, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cotton Mather, and Rachael Ray; history books on such topics as the invention of the moving assembly line and the Treaty of Nanking; and examinations of the mythology surrounding El Dorado and Atlantis.
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The Play's The Thing
Reading group to tackle Shakespeare's plays
By Lisa Gray Published 12:15 pm, Friday, October 14, 2011
Dennis Abrams. Photo: Lisa Gray
Photo: Lisa Gray
Dennis Abrams.
A couple of years ago, to my astonishment, my tart-tongued friend Dennis Abrams began leading hundreds of readers through In Search of Lost Time.
As in, Marcel Proust's 3,000-page, translated-from-French masterpiece. In an online book club.
This boggled me for three reasons.
1) In this Twittering, emoticon-polluted age, hundreds of people were willing to read a 3,000-page, translated-from-French masterpiece.
2) They were willing to read it without the promise of class credits or a cash payment.
3) They were reading it with Dennis as their page-by-page guide - Dennis, king of the sarcastic joke, Dennis, who loves Glee Dennis, whose recent Facebook posts include an article about a birthday party for a two-headed cat.
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But what do I know? People loved that Proust book-club blog.
So Dennis' sponsor, Publishing Perspectives, commissioned a follow-up, in which Dennis and his followers read (really) all four major novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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THE PLAY'S THE THING
What: An online reading group covering all of Shakespeare's plays
Where: http:/theplaystheblog.wordpress.com/
How much: Free
Maybe, at this point, I should explain that Dennis has the most eclectic career of any writer I know. Sometimes he writes snarky reviews of books or restaurants; recently, he reviewed a coloring book.
But other times, he writes the world's most solemn kind of books: the sort sold directly to middle-school libraries for the betterment of young minds. That portion of his oeuvre includes everything from a history of the Industrial Revolution to biographies of Angelina Jolie and Taylor Swift.
Dostoyevsky and Taylor Swift. Dostoyevsky and Taylor Swift. Maybe, if I say those words together often enough, the juxtaposition will stop making me laugh.
But at long last, I get to my point: This week, Dennis is launching his most ambitious online project to date: a reading group that will tackle Shakespeare's plays - all of Shakespeare's plays. A few acts at a time. In chronological order.
When I saw Dennis recently, he'd been prepping himself the way an athlete trains before the Olympics: reading critics, watching BBC videos, studying what little biographical information exists about the Bard.
For Dennis, Shakespeare is the big Kahuna, the World Series, the ne plus ultra He quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Shakespeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise; the others, conceivably."
The early, messy plays don't intimidate him. Low humor? He's your man. He even sort of looks forward to unraveling the ugly gender politics of Taming of the Shrew; Titus Andronicus doesn't intimidate him.
But as the group progresses - probably over the course of a year - they'll move through the best-loved, most-discussed works in English literature. Hamlet. Antony and Cleopatra. Romeo and Juliet. The Tempest. Lear.
That's heady stuff - particularly after a deep immersion in Angelina Jolie.
But why? I asked Dennis. Why not ... oh, Mark Twain? or Oscar Wilde? Why not something light, to counteract this depressing drought/recession?
Dennis quoted Harold Bloom: "The answer to the question 'Why Shakespeare?' must be 'Who else is there?' "
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I Was Cleopatra
Maggie Reagan
Booklist.
114.15 (Apr. 1, 2018): p72.
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I Was Cleopatra. By Dennis Abrams. Apr. 2018.192p. Groundwood, $ 16.95 (9781773060224). Gr. 7-10.
In Shakespeare's England, theater was a man's world. Men wrote plays, they costumed them, and they acted
in them--as men and as women. Apprenticed to the theater as a young boy, John Rice was one such actor;
lovely and graceful, he found himself perfectly positioned to inherit the female leads when his fellow
apprentice, Alexander, grew too old to convincingly portray a woman. John Rice was a real member of the
King's Men theater troupe during Shakespeare's tenure, and this fictionalized memoir follows him through
his teens as he learns his craft, originates such landmark roles as Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, and Cleopatra,
and struggles with his fears of aging. Throughout, he becomes aware of gender performativity and sexuality,
growing as much as a person as he does an actor. In his debut, Abrams writes with some distance; John
doesn't always understand his situations in the way a modern narrator would, and his reactions to his world
are measured and thoughtful. An impeccably researched and precisely told foray into the days of
Shakespeare.--Maggie Reagan
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Reagan, Maggie. "I Was Cleopatra." Booklist, 1 Apr. 2018, p. 72. General OneFile,
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ABRAMS, Dennis: I Was Cleopatra
Anne Letain
Resource Links.
23.4 (Apr. 2018): p25.
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ABRAMS, Dennis
I Was Cleopatra
Groundwood Books, 2018. Gr. 9-12.
978-1-77306-022-4. Hdbk. $18.95
I Was Cleopatra is a fictional memoir/ coming of age novel about John Rice who was probably the most
beautiful and celebrated boy actor of Shakespearian times and also a member of the lauded King's Men
acting troupe. At the age of thirteen, John Rice was apprenticed to a drama troupe by his father and ended
up at The Globe Theatre under the tutelage of William Shakespeare. As a boy actor John Rice was trained
to portray female roles and is said to be the original Lady Macbeth and his greatest accomplishment was the
role of "Cleopatra". This, of course, was because at the time women were not permitted to appear on stage.
Despite meticulous research and keen verisimilitude for the times, this imagining of the life of John Rice is
a tedious read as Abrams attempt to use quasi Old English is not always a success. The language is also
hampered by a lack of dialogue which diminishes any liveliness that the story might have had. Although the
chapters are short, the story itself is only broken up with snippets of Shakespeare that are used to illustrate
the roles that John Rice learned in his apprenticeship, and his maturation from small speaking parts to major
roles, until he aged out of female parts.
Dennis Abrams fails to really bring the character of John Rice to life despite a secondary plot line where
young John explores his sexuality with his mentor, Alexander, a fellow actor who has grown beyond female
roles in the company. This dalliance or titillation is really the only aspect of John Rice's personality that is
explored more thoroughly than anything else, and it includes a suggestive encounter with King James.
There is much to learn about the historical setting and world of acting troupes in England in the early
seventeenth century, but the story itself is flat. I Was Cleopatra is definitely a niche book and will probably
not find a wide high school audience.
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Thematic Links: Shakespeare; Drama; Boy Actors
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I Was Cleopatra
Publishers Weekly.
265.9 (Feb. 26, 2018): p94.
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I Was Cleopatra
Dennis Abrams. Groundwood, $18.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-77306-022-4
Abrams's first novel is a well researched yet at times impersonal fictional memoir of John Rice, an actor
who performed at Shakespeare's theater as a boy. John, age 35 when the book opens, pays a sad and loving
farewell to his past life through the narrative that follows. At 13, John leaves his home in Reading, England
to join the King's Men theater troupe in London. His beauty, sensitivity, and feminine qualities allow him to
excel at playing female characters at a time when women were played exclusively by men. PW
correspondent Abrams meticulously details John's development as an actor, playing under various masters,
including Shakespeare himself; the Bard's lines appear throughout. John is cast in the biggest roles--Lady
Macbeth, Cleopatra, and Cordelia--at the Globe Theater, but feels lonely despite romantic attention from a
fellow actor. Abrams's discussion of gender fluidity and sexuality are among the novel's most intriguing
aspects. His knowledge of the historical era and Shakespeare's oeuvre are evident, yet for all the
verisimilitude Abrams brings to the page, his prose has a detached quality that may fail to fully engage
readers. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"I Was Cleopatra." Publishers Weekly, 26 Feb. 2018, p. 94. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A530637531/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=4af7fac4.
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Kirkus Reviews.
(Feb. 15, 2018):
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Abrams, Dennis I WAS CLEOPATRA Groundwood (Young Adult Fiction) $16.95 4, 3 ISBN: 978-1-77306-
022-4
All the world's a stage, and for John Rice the stage is also his life, the scene of his greatest triumphs and the
repository of his personal insecurities.
Abrams' (The Play's the Thing, 2015, etc.) novel is a fictional biography of the Elizabethan child actor
believed to have originally played many of Shakespeare's major female roles, including Lady Macbeth,
Cordelia, and Desdemona. The story opens with Rice's birth as the second son of a successful glove-maker.
As one of seven children, Rice struggles to find his place in society, lacking the physical talents to follow in
his father's footsteps. His life changes when the King's Men--the most famous theatrical troupe in London--
comes to his hometown of Reading. Rice is transfixed by Alexander Cook's performance of Rosalind and,
with his father's blessing, becomes the company's apprentice, poised to take over the ingenue roles as
Alexander ages out of them. What follows is a poignant coming-of-age tale that explores the complexities
of youth and gender performance. Rice is a compelling protagonist, and his journey showcases the theater's
unique ability to free its denizens from mainstream societal expectations, although as he rises in the
company he grapples with a Peter Pan-like horror of aging.
A thought-provoking work that will encourage readers to learn more about the world of Elizabethan theater.
(Historical fiction. 13-18)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
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"Abrams, Dennis: I WAS CLEOPATRA." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Feb. 2018. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A527248138/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=08ff5010.
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ABRAMS, Dennis. I Was Cleopatra
Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan
School Library Journal.
64.4 (Apr. 2018): p126.
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ABRAMS, Dennis. I Was Cleopatra. 200p. Groundwood. Apr. 2018. Tr $16.95. ISBN 9781773060231.
Gr 7-10--When John Rice, young son of a Reading glover, is apprenticed to The King's Men, a company of
actors under royal patronage whose playwright-in-residence is William Shakespeare, he begins a new life,
playing female parts in the all-male theatre of Elizabethan England. Complimented on his acting skills by
the Bard himself, he thrives under the tutelage of Alexander, another young actor with whom John also has
a physical relationship. Eventually he becomes a shareholder in the company, now playing male roles;
however, after his wife dies in childbirth, he dedicates himself to the Church, putting his artistic life behind
him. Abrams writes in a clear, concise manner, and his story is filled with historical details, but it reads
more like a history of Elizabethan theater and less like a novel. There is much description and frequent
passages quoted from Shakespeare's plays, but little dialogue or dramatic tension, and the writing is too dry
to provoke much interest in YA readers. VERDICT Libraries will fare better with Bernard Cornwall's Fools
and Mortals, which tells a similar story of an actor of female roles but with more action, conflict, and
realistic dialogue.--Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan, formerly at LaSalle Academy, Providence
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Menaldi-Scanlan, Nancy. "ABRAMS, Dennis. I Was Cleopatra." School Library Journal, Apr. 2018, p. 126.
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