In the final scene of Macbeth, the hero enters asking, “Why should I play the Roman fool, and die on mine own sword?”

In the final scene of Julius Caesar, Brutus tries to convince one of his soldiers, “Good Volumnius, Thou know’st that we two went to school together: Even for that our love of old, I prithee, Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.”

Anybody got another spot where it looks like one Shakespeare play references another?

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http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051114/NEWS/111140126

I think some of us would like to hang out with this guy. Don Kramer may only be just another guy starting a business in the Bermuda insurance market, which sounds like a sleeper, but he’s named his company “Ariel”, a direct and deliberate reference to the Tempest.

He’s not even been particularly sneaky. This is his second business, you see – the first was indeed named Tempest, back in 1993.
Both companies are “property-catastrophe reinsurers”, whatever that means.

I like how simply the article (in a Bermuda newspaper) calls the Tempest “Bermuda based” as if that was agreed upon fact. 🙂

What do you think — if Mr. Kramer had perhaps grown up in my generation, with today’s education, maybe he would be calling his companies Gilligan and Skipper?

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http://www.chicagosportsreview.com/localopinion/localopinionview.asp?c=169810

Nothing terribly newsworthy, I just always like to link it when I find a Shakespeare reference on the sports pages. Reminds me of high school….in BIZARRO WORLD.

Nothing against Bernie, but the coach was waxing poetic in a realm – the underside of an NBA arena – where you hear more 50 Cent than Henry V.

Said Bickerstaff: “It’s like that Shakespeare quote: Fault lies not in the stars but in ourselves.”

I particularly like how the writer of the article couldn’t help but take a Shakespeare jab himself. High school literature nerds unite!

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No good Shakespeare news stories or sightings to report recently so I might as well start up with more personal stories. Last night for the first time in a long time Kerry and I were able to sit on the couch and read the newspaper in the evening, both kids asleep. “Oh hey,” she says, “Henry the Eighth.”

“That’s a Shakespeare play,” I say, curious.

“No, wait,” she says, reading, “Is that eight? What’s V?”

“V is five. Probably Henry the Sixth, then.”

“Nope, just V.”

“Eh?”

She hands me the paper. Sure enough the headline is, “Highschool performs Henry the V.”

Henry “The” V? Never heard it called that before :). Methinks the writer is perhaps not a Shakespeare fan.

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SavageChickens is just the kind of comic I like. It’s small – written on yellow stickies. The humor is in the joke, not the artwork. And there’s lots and lots and and lots of Shakespeare references. Go check it out.

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