Shakespeare, by Pink Floyd

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Excuse me while my head explodes, in the good way. When I saw this blog’s headline, “David Gilmour – Sonnet 18”, I first skipped past it. Then said “Wait a minute…the Pink Floyd guy?” I got excited. Everybody hopes to hear the sonnets put to music, could it be that there’s audio of Pink Floyd doing it? Talk about your head exploding in the good way.

I won’t lie — the iambic pentameter model does not lend itself well to music — but who cares! It’s got that Pink Floyd sound, there’s nothing bad about that.

Promptbooks are cool

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Promptbooks are copies of the script with a whole bunch of handwritten notes inside that the actors would have used to detail exactly how a scene would be played. This site has scans of a number of Shakespearean prompt books, including Macbeth. Fascinating stuff. It’s a little hard to navigate at first. Head for the images, basically. If you find yourself on a page that says “Hand” a lot, it’s actually describing in detail who wrote what on the page — but there’s probably an image of the page that you can click on.

Honorificabilitudinity !

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A friend sent me the link to yesterday’s Word A Day word, asking if I’d ever heard of it through the Shakespeare connection. Apparently a character in Love’s Labour’s Lost says it, but no, I did not remember it. Additionally, if you scramble the letters a bit you end up with a Latin phrase that means “These plays, F. Bacon’s offspring, are preserved for the world.” Which of course means nothing, but it’s neat nonetheless :).

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