The Shakespeare Requirement

Posted on 11 September 2017 by Julie Schumacher

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize winning Dear Committee Members Once into the breachNow is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of Payne University, takes arms against a sea of troubles, personal and institutional His ex wife is sleeping with the dean who must approve whatever modest initiatives he undertakes The fearsome department secretary Fran clearly runs the show when not taking in rescue parrots and dogs and holds plenty of secrets she s not sharing The lavishly funded Econ Department keeps siphoning off English s meager resources and has taken aim at its remaining office space And Fitger s attempt to get a mossbacked and antediluvian Shakespeare scholar to retire backfires spectacularly when the press concludes that the Bard is being kicked to the curricular curb Lord, what fools these mortals be Julie Schumacher proves the point and makes the most of it in this delicious romp of satire. Best Read The Shakespeare Requirement [ by ] Julie Schumacher [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Jason Fitger, the beleaguered English professor who was the protagonist of Julie Schumacher s very funny Dear Committee Members , takes us on a return trip to Payne University in Schumacher s new book, The Shakespeare Requirement Fitger, pompous and irascible as ever, finds himself elected chair of the English department, and he has no idea of the chaos and aggravation that awaits him.As if having to work on substandard equipment and in squalid conditions isn t bad enough, the Economics Depa Jason Fitger, the beleaguered English professor who was the protagonist of Julie Schumacher s very funny Dear Committee Members , takes us on a return trip to Payne University in Schumacher s new book, The Shakespeare Requirement Fitger, pompous and irascible as ever, finds himself elected chair of the English department, and he has no idea of the chaos and aggravation that awaits him.As if having to work on substandard equipment and in squalid conditions isn t bad enough, the Economics Department and its chair, Roland Gladwell, who convinced the university and corporate sponsors that his department needed state of the art classrooms and technology, now has his eye on the English Department s remaining space Fitger has to guard himself against angry wasps, faulty air conditioning, and a computer that might work if he could ever get the University s IT department to schedule an appointment And don t try to set up a meeting wit...I was looking through my books read shelf for a funny book to recommend to a Goodreads friend and I realized that I haven t read very many funny books Having enjoyed Dear Committee Members by this author, I thought this sequel to Jason Fitger s trials and tribulations as a college professor would provide me with a few laughs and it did Fitger is now chair of the English departmental at Payne University and is faced with a number of challenges The dilapidated offices of the English department I was looking through my books read shelf for a funny book to recommend to a Goodreads friend and I realized that I haven t read very many funny books Having enjoyed Dear Committee Members by this author, I thought this sequel to Jason Fitger s trials and tribulations as a college professor would provide me with a few laughs and it did Fitger is now chair of the English departmental at Payne University and is faced with a number of challenges The dilapidated offices of the English department are in dire need of renovation There is no depa...I m old enough to remember that the biggest parlor game of the 1970s and 1980s amongst US readers was to bicker over whether the latest Stephen King movie did justice to the book from which it was adapted Everyone had read each subject book before viewing the corollary movie You can imagine that no one ever liked the movie better But,than that, the conversation criticizing the applicable movie could go on for, literally, hours as each participant piled on with his or her heresy committe I m old enough to remember that the biggest parlor game of the 1970s and 1980s amongst US readers was to bicker over whether the latest Stephen King movie did justice to the book from which it was adapted Everyone had read each subject book before viewing the corollary movie You can imagine that no one ever liked the movie better But,than that, the conversation criticizing the applicable movie could go on for, literally, hours as each participant piled on with his or her heresy committed by the applicable director If we d had whiteboards, they would have needed to be very large and everyone would have needed to write in quite tiny lettering It got rather tiresome by his 8th or 9th bestseller Trust me In a similar vein, there are a subset of readers who adored Dear Committee Members, Julie Schu...A funny, light academic comedy, The Shakespeare Requirement is a sequel to Schumacher s hilarious epistolary novel Dear Committee Members, and I must agree with several of my Goodreads friends that it pales in comparison Dear Committee Members was inspired The Shakespeare Requirement, although humorous, is not Also it has so many details of comic academia in common with two other novels that I ve read recently primarily Straight Man by Richard Russo but also Blue Angel by Francine Prose eve A funny, light academic comedy, The Shakespeare Requirement is a sequel to Schumacher s hilarious epistolary novel Dear Committee Members, and I must agree with several of my Goodreads friends that it pales in comparison Dear Committee Members was inspired The Shakespeare Requirement, although humorous, is not Also it has so many details of comic academia in common with two other novels that I ve read recently primarily Straight Man by Richard Russo but also Blue Angel by Francine Prose everything from the specificity of a broken tooth to battles with machinery and architecture that sometimes I forgot which novel I was reading However five chapters in, it briefly came alive and new when the beleaguered Professor Jason T Fitger star of the two books , local literary SOB and unexceptional novelist and, of course, English Department chair 109 , a man in a never ending fight to exist, deals with his ex wife Janet Matthias Janet works in the law school and was ...This is a sequel to the author s Dear Committee Members, a hilarious sendup of the pettifoggery of academia.In this book, new department head Jason Fitger, pompous and irascible as ever, is as usual clueless about the chaos and aggravation that awaits him, to the annoyance of Fran, his efficient ass...School won t start for another month, but Jason Fitger from Dear Committee Members is now back in a hilarious sequel called The Shakespeare Requirement, which gave me a chance to call up Julie Schumacher at her home in St Paul, Minn., and fawn like a first semester freshman Originally, she had no plans to continue the story of Fitger s travails at Payne University But Dear Committee Members was such a slim little thing, she says The form was so narrow that I didn t get a chanc School won t start for another month, but Jason Fitger from Dear Committee Members is now back in a hilarious sequel called The Shakespeare Requirement, which gave me a chance to call up Julie Schumacher at her home in St Paul, Minn., and fawn like a first semester freshman Originally, she had no plans to continue the story of Fitger s travails a...Hilarious followup to Dear Committee Members Should be required reading of all of us working in academia, for comic relief as we head into the fall semester but read the first book first as they are consecutive The professor from the first novel has new responsibilities in this one, but is still trying to confront his failed relationship amidst these new challenges these include losing access to the departmental conference room as all rooms on campus are in the new campus scheduling syste Hilarious followup to Dear Committee Members Should be required reading of all of us working in academia, for comic relief as we head into the fall semester but read the first book first as they are consecutive The professor from the first novel has new responsibilities in this one, but is still trying to confront his failed relationship amidst these new challenges these include...2.5 DNF 44% This sequel to Dear Committee Members was only mildly amusing Jason Fitger is now Payne s chair of English, a shabby and underfunded department that always seems to get passed over while Economics receives special treatment His hapless floundering wasp stings, dental treatme...Full disclosure The author is my sister, so of course I m going to give it 5 stars But in any event, I would not give it less than 4 She writes really well, with great characters And the ending is fantastic.I laughed out loud several times on the subway while reading this.

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11 September 2017

Julie Schumacher