I have no idea what to make of this. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1968) – Ghost Dance Sequence is something that BoingBoing refers to as “Ethnic psychedelia by India’s filmic Shakespeare”. If somebody wants to comment and clarify the connection to Shakespeare, feel free. I’m guessing that “filmic Shakespeare” is like “Kenneth Brannagh.”

I never followed West Wing, so I don’t plan to follow Studio 60. But if you did (and/or you do), you might enjoy Just Eat the Damn Peach’s idea that there should be a new version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, starring Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry.

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Savage Chickens does Shakespeare Like A Pirate to celebrate National Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Shakespeare’s Grammar: Rhetorical Devices is really something out of a high school English class, but I love the use of examples from Shakespeare to show such vocabulary lesson concepts as alliteration, anaphora, and onomatopoeia. Ok, I’ll admit some of the terms are new to me, too. Fair is foul and foul is fair? That’s your basic “chiasmus” right there, ya see. And “Take thy face hence?” What you’ve got there is a synecdoche.

Did I ever tell you about the time I tried a new Mexican restaurant, and told the waiter, “I’d like the chicken and cheese chimichanga, because you can’t pass up an alliteration like that.” He didn’t appreciate the poetic significance.

How do you spell onomatopoeia? Just like it sounds.

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Interested in the Francis Bacon theory of Authorship? The Shakespeare Code is a $3.95 ebook, coming soon, that aims to be “the one true history of Francis Bacon.”

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