Remember Julie Taymor’s Tempest, starring Helen Mirren?

Want some pictures? I think they look cool! I like the idea of a fairly monstrous (in the sense of big and strong) Caliban, rather than a slimy sort of Gollum-like creature.

So David Tennant is holding a real human skull?

Wasn’t that a major plot point in that BBC series about a Shakespeare theatre, the name of which escapes me at the moment?

Is he right?

This author, who finds that he shares his wedding anniversary (November 28) with Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway (is that the confirmation I was looking for?), decides to recite a sonnet for his wife. The one he chooses is 130, the famous “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…”

Is that appropriate? Is his interepretation accurate? I’ve always been curious about that one.

Catherine Eaton’s Corsetless seems like a familiar idea — a character who speaks only in lines from Shakespeare. I always take a passing interest in such projects, although they tend to suffer from a problem that the author of the review notes — it’s hard to make your mind stop saying “Ok, that was from Hamlet…that was from Romeo and Juliet….”

How about an up to date psychiatric reading of our favorite Dane?

Sure there’s been Freudian analysis of Hamlet since…well, Freud. It’s not new. He makes a good subject. I liked this one because it reads like Psych homework: “here’s a brief summary of the patient, here’s the emotions he’s experiencing, here’s how I characterize him and why, here’s how I would treat him…” I think it’s a bit more approachable than some of the traditional papers done on the subject.