http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/06/juliet-at-darmok.html No, not a link to a generic list of Shakespeare references in Star Trek that’s been going around the net since we were all using ftp and gopher. No, BardFilm is actually digging up video of Startrekkian (ha!) Shakespeare references, and then discussing them in context of the story. He’s been doing it for quite a little while, so if you enjoy the linked post (I’m a language geek so I found this one particularly interesting), be sure to check out the rest of the series.
New Portrait of Edward deVere?
http://shakespeareportraits.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-portrait-of-edward-de-vere-suggests.html
In the next week SP will be posting pictures of a newly identified portrait of Edward de Vere. This mystery portrait, long affiliated with William Shakespeare, will add even more fuel to the bonfire of evidence suggesting that the 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere wrote under the name William Shakespeare.
I don’t usually post every Authorship story I come across, but people tend to like pictures.
Ye Olde Willy Shoppe?
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2009/05/31/shakespeare-porn-shocker-66331-23749752/ Seems there’s a bit of trouble, or perhaps irony, brewing in dear Stratford on Avon. “Romeo and Juliet’s Adult Boutique”, purveyor of … well, I’m sure you can guess … got a license to open up shop in Shakespeare’s hometown. Given all the sex jokes Shakespeare wrote, I think it would be funny if they just themed the whole store and had nothing but Shakespeare puns everywhere you look. The “Much Ado About Nothing” section could be right next to “Country Matters.” …and that’s about as far as I’m gonna take that. 🙂
Disney Macbeth?
http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/05/disney-to-make-animated-version-of.html I wish this was true, but it looks more like some sort of collaboration among animators to draw what Macbeth might look like, in Disney style. Ah, well. I’m still holding out for The Tempest, but I think the “Gnomeo and Juliet” is the next one coming.
Sonnet Drive-By
http://nannygoathill.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/the-sonnets/
Having now read all 154 of the sonnets, I can confidently say that you have probably already heard the good ones. You know, ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ (18) or ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’ (116) or ‘Being your slave, what should I do but tend’ (57). Not, for example, 143, wherein the Dark Lady is represented as running after the Fair Youth like a farmer’s wife chasing a goose around a yard:
… I thought this crowd might find something amusing in that post. 🙂