http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2008/5/19/new-king-lear-to-star-hopkins-paltrow-and-knightley.html Straight out of Cannes comes the announcement of Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins (nice!), Gwynneth Paltrow (maybe now she’ll start pinging my radar for something other than every time somebody calls her the Shakespeare in Love actres), and Keira Knightley … who is famous for the Pirate movies?  Not sure what else she’s been in. I look forward to seeing this one!

http://junk-foodaholic.blogspot.com/2008/05/doing-shakespeare-in-park.html What’s better than getting your kids interested in Macbeth?  Taking them outside to perform it in public, even if the only people there to see it are classmates and a couple of parents.  You might even get in the paper…

http://bitsydungaree.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/the-search-for-celia/ Not being an actor myself, I do enjoy reading the thoughts of actors who get to portray Shakespeare’s characters.  Here the author muses on her experience playing Celia in As You Like It. 

http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.1970/sec./ I’m really not sure what this is, but it looks worth reading.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/05/not-really-about-anything.html Yeah, you heard me right.