http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/popsmart/2008/06/30/shakespeare-tavern-to-stage-15-plays-next-season/ If you’re anywhere near Atlanta, you’re going to have oodles of Shakespeare to choose from over the next year.  The New American Shakespeare Tavern (which has no second stage) will certainly have its hands full with productions including Much Ado, Twelfth Night, King John, Anthony and Cleopatra, the Henry VI Trilogy, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest … as well as a bunch of other plays by lesser playwrights (including a certain Doctor Faustus) thrown in the mix :).

I’m not asking, I know what it is.  That’s a Jeopardy reference, you see….

  You’ve got to love how badly the contestants mess up as soon as they stray from the “standard” plays.  Like the guy who guesses All’s Well That Ends Well when the actual answer is Richard III!

Just heard on NPR’s Wait Wait show that George Carlin’s grandfather wrote out the complete works of Shakespeare, just because he liked it. If true, that’s kind of cool.  People talk about a life goal of reading the complete works, try writing them out! There’s a bit for somebody to do – find the Shakespearean equivalent to all of Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words”.

While I google for references, somebody refresh my memory – how new (or, at least, little known) was the concept of infinity while Shakespeare was writing?  I know I saw someplace some references to just when it was first written about and by whom, but I can’t seem to put my finger on them.  I’d like to learn more about just how big of a deal it was that Shakespeare “jumped on the bandwagon early”, so to speak.  That he “got” the concept of infinity pretty quickly. That is, of course, if that’s true.  I could be completely misunderstanding the timing and it could have been a concept every groundling understood, too.  But I don’t think so. I’m looking now, but every combination of googling for “Shakespeare” and “infinity” just turns up damned monkey typing references.   P.S. – My Mobius “infinity bracelet” has apparently arrived, so presentation to wife coming soon.  I say apparently because it arrived while I was on vacation over the weekend and all I got was a note in the mail saying I had to sign for it.   A note that arrived AT MY HOUSE INSTEAD OF MY BUSINESS ADDRESS so my wife is all “What’s this?”  I’m not thrilled with this development, especially since I was planning to hide it until September for our anniversary.  Oh, well.  I’ll let everybody know how it came out and how she likes it.

http://www.bardblog.com/animaniacsummer-nights-dream/ Straight from The Bard Blog.  I had not seen that (shame on me), though I’d heard references.  Cute! What is the “plot hole so big you could drive a truck through”, I wonder?