Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
Sean Bean! Rupert Grint! Shakespeare! Who could ask for more?
And now for something completely different… I know, two posts in one day? Inconceivable. But there are only 22 hours or so left to support this film, and I want this to happen so very badly. Here’s what I’m talking … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dance, Enemy of Man, Kickstarter, MacBeth, Oh please oh please oh please, Rupert Grint, Sean Bean, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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Twelfth Night (also known as “‘Back’ is such a relative term”)
I have no idea where this month has gone. Poof, even. It’s a good thing, in one way at least: Twelfth Night is coming! Well, it’s there now, at the Hartford Stage: Twelfth Night May 18 – June 16 By … Continue reading
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Tagged Darko Tresnjak, Hartford Stage, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s As You Like It, edited by Demitra Papadinis
I received this as a LibraryThing Early Reader book, in exchange for an honest review. (Warning – pretty much all the language I generally avoid in reviews up to now shows up here, en masse.)(In fact …) … Continue reading
Posted in books, Classics, Writing
Tagged As You Like It, bowdlerization, Demitra Papadinis, Orlando, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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The winter isn’t quite so full of discontent, suddenly
I’ve been lucky enough to be able to follow the exciting Richard III news on Goodreads; heaven knows American news has been doing diddly all with it, so the Ricardians and Plantagenet fans online were where I learned about the … Continue reading
Posted in memorial, Shakespeare
Tagged House of Plantagenet, Plantagenet, Ricardians, Richard III, William Shakespeare
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The Lodger Shakespeare – Charles Nicholl, Simon Vance
I pounced on this because I enjoyed/admired/appreciated Charles Nicholl’s The Reckoning, about the murder of Christopher Marlowe, and because I was mad about Simon Vance’s reading of Dust and Shadow. Those two, plus Shakespeare, indicated an instant win. Well… mostly. … Continue reading
Posted in books, history, Shakespeare
Tagged Charles Nicholl, Shakespeare, Silver Street, Simon Vance, The Lodger Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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Anonymous postscript
So, it’s been a little while. Last post was my review of a fairly bad movie, Anonymous. I expected some kind of reaction – but not what I got. I did not expect the childish name-calling and wrong-headed abusiveness that … Continue reading
The most tragicall comedie or comicall tragedie of Anonymous
I’m a Stratfordian, which means that I have no doubt that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare: Occam’s Razor – there is no reason to question it. But I have to say, some time back there was a PBS presentation outlining the claim … Continue reading
William Shakespeare: The World as Stage – Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is an old friend. His approach to history makes the standard tome all the more flat and dull by comparison – Bryson knows his stuff well enough to not only present it to an audience but to play … Continue reading
Posted in books, history
Tagged authorship question, Bill Bryson, Globe Theatre, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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Caliban’s Hour – Tad Williams
A long-held habit of multi-tasking is hard to break, so you’d think I’d listen to more audio books. Effectively reading while doing chores – winner. But I don’t. The cost of audiobooks aside (though that’s a lot to put aside), … Continue reading
Posted in books, fantasy, Shakespeare
Tagged audiobook, Caliban, Caliban's Hour, fan-fiction, Ron Perlman, Tad Williams, The Tempest, William Shakespeare
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