Month: May 2006

I’ve noticed that one of the more popular Shakespeare queries that I see is for Shakespeare games. In particular, Romeo and Juliet games. This morning I found one. Shakespeare4Kidz has a games section that combines a flash “shoot out” with a standard quiz about the play — answer a question right to get the chance to kick a ball past the goalie. For some bizarre reason you can customize the goalie, and choices include Ghandhi, Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates, Queen Victoria, and Karl Marx.

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Anybody seen “Stage Beauty”? I don’t think I’d ever even really heard of it, although it is a very recent (2004) Shakespeare-eque movie. Today I saw Victoria Lane’s blog where she calls it “…one of the most breathtaking films centered around Shakespeare I’ve ever seen.” Looks like another one to add to my list!

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I knew about the movie Scotland, PA, which is a retelling of Macbeth at a hamburger joint. JoeUltimate has a quick writeup where I learn that Christopher Walken is in it. I can’t really see myself going to hunt it down just to see, but if it makes the rounds on one of the assorted movie channels (it apparently did Sundance) then I’ll have to make sure to Tivo it.

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Ron Schuler’s Parlour Tricks: ‘I Started at the Top and Worked Down’:

I’m digging this Ron Schuler’s site — there seems to be lots of Shakespeare related stuff without specifically being a Shakespeare blog. Here he provides a bio of Orson Welles, which contains a number of choice Shakespearey bits. I did not know, for instance, that he had authored a Shakespeare text (“Everybody’s Shakespeare”) or that he did a movie called “Falstaff” which blends together a number of pieces of all the Henry plays.

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Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech is an interesting discussion point for Romeo and Juliet. Technically, as last as far as the plot goes, you can skip it altogether. It goes more toward character development. When I was in school we had lengthy discussions about what the speech tells us about Mercutio. I know one high school teacher of Romeo and Juliet who simply skips it.

I noticed this blog entry about Queen Mab, which includes link to an audio of the spoken word, the speech transcript itself, and some commentary. It’s short, but it’s nice to see a whole post about just Queen Mab.

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