Month: May 2007

Well, rather, a quiz about Much Ado.  But I’m bored and haven’t been finding many links lately that haven’t been done to death. http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2222601972d68.html I only got 9/15, I’m disappointed.  But I did it fast from memory, I didn’t go searching through the text. [Found via Kent Countryside Productions]  

I happened across a review of “Shakespeare The Bard Game” over at the Crazier Letters blog (where apparently someone named Erin had gotten it as a birthday present).  Looks neat.  “Quite possibly one of the most fun games around, ok well that’s a bit much but it is still a great time,” says the author. I have no idea who those people are and whether they are theatre/Shakespeare folk, so I thought I’d post over here and see if anybody knows this game?  Apparently the goal involves collecting money so that you can perform the plays, but first you have to get your props, actors, patron and so on.  I could dig it.  My wife and I currently have a larger supply of board games than we do friends who play board games with us, so it’s not like I’m in the market for more. Back in college I gave a friend a game called “Playing Shakespeare”.  Basically it was charades, only you were acting out Shakespeare quotes.  I’ll always remember the time I got the clue, “Even now that old black ram is…” and watching my partner try desperately to act out the rest before finally putting her out of her misery and saying, “…topping your white ewe.”  How exactly do you act out “topping”?  (I actually remember it as “tupping” with a u, but my searchable text tells me it’s topping, so who knows.  Still hard to act out :)).  

http://www.shakespeareteacher.com/blog/archives/204 Shakespeare Teacher’s got a Shakespeare crossword up, with a twist.  Well, in this case without any actual twists (or crosses?), as it is a “one dimensional” puzzle.  You may have seen these before.  The clues are given “left to right” and then “right to left”, so whatever you put in as the answers for one side has to match the answers going in the opposite direction.  Try it out!  

Last week I mentioned seeing Prospero, Miranda and Ferdinand in the clouds as I was driving home.  Well, yesterday I saw Romeo and Juliet.  More specifically I saw the “Eyes, look your last, arms, take your last embrace” moment from the final scene. Juliet lying there, dead (or close enough), Romeo bent over her to give one last kiss.  Truthfully it could just as easily have been The Prince coming to kiss Snow White.  But I like my image better.  I’m kinda digging this, I have to keep an eye out for more Shakespeare cloud formations.  

I am very, very sorry for this, but I feel obligated to post it. http://community.livejournal.com/cat_macros/1895731.html   (I much preferred the old days when lolcats had bad spelling, but at least proper grammar.  Now everybody seems to think that it’s funnier if you just randomize the words.  I mean, come on, “please it is can be”???)