I’m still looking for more examples of the sonnets put to music. But since I’m trolling through the videos this morning, here is the link to a short film somebody made of Sonnet 65. Interesting. Sometimes the sounds effects (the running water in particular) were too loud for the narration, and in general it was read rather fast. But still, a cool idea. I’d be happy to find a collection of such things.

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Doing a little searching of Google Video turned up this “obscure gem”, a silent movie version of Twelfth Night apparently from 1910.

Actually there’s lots of free Shakespeare video in there, so have a field day. Lots of it seems to be from “60 Second Shakespeare” which is some sort of BBC workshop. And a number of high school productions.

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So, my traffic spiked yesterday and I had no idea why. Turns out that I’m the lead-off quote in a Google Book Search story about Shakespeare. Apparently they liked the whole “Sonnet 18 by David Gilmour” story. Thanks for the link, Arielle!

She (I assume?) called Troilus and Cressida and “obscure gem”. Not sure which, if either, of those words I agree with :).

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Ok, this is just painful. On this week’s edition of NPR’s “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” there was an item about the changing curriculum of Shakespeare in England. Apparently (looking for a news item to back this up) they’re officially making it “easier”. Ready for the quote they gave? From Macbeth, they use the example: “Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee…I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” Apparently this is being translated, and I’m not making this up, into “Oooooo, wouldya lookat that?”

At least one line in Romeo and Juliet, as well, is translated into “Hey, how ’bout a snog?”

It’s almost too silly to believe, but they reported it as a true story. Gotta find me some confirmation!

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