http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j164/Huxley71/blog2/2008-07-25-necro.gif No, really. 🙂  We won’t pick on the fact that he’s buried inside the church, not out in a yard someplace. 🙂

http://www.indiabolbol.com/2008/09/bollywoods-last-lear-a-treat-for-shakespeare-lovers/ The chances I’ll ever see this Bollywood movie are about zero, but it looks pretty neat.  I love this line about Amitabh Bachchan, playing a reclusive stage actor who quotes Shakespeare with relish and is making his movie debut at an old age: “…in one scene, Bachnan chases a reporter out of his house for misspelling the name of Oberon, the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Sounds like my kinda guy.

http://toy-a-day.blogspot.com/ This is kind of cute.  Folding paper toys, one a day for a year.  Shakespeare is #38. [Found via http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2008/09/barack-obama-edward-scissorhands.html]

http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2008/09/saturday-word-play-shakespearean.html That’s right, *crypto*grams, not the anagrams.  By the time you get to this post all 10 may have been answered, but I’m linking because it’s a new blog (to me) and I’m not sure how often they post Shakespeare stuff.

Hey now, this is neat.  A special on the staging of Dream, including video from the famous Brooks version.  Note that this is only one of three parts, so be sure to follow through all three of them.

I like how they talk about the little details – should the fairies have wings?  If they have wings, should they fly?  Great stuff!