Ok, anybody got any Shakespeare related resolutions? Plays you should have read but haven’t? Plays/movies you want to see? Merchandise you want to buy?

I’d like to (note my wording – chicken!) get an application up and running on the web that allows people to tag and comment on various aspects of the plays, ideally in a way that hasn’t been done yet :). I like the idea that somebody (who I think prefers to live anonymously) just passed along about using a voice recorder to brain dump thoughts on various scenes and then put them together into a podcast.

I also want to try my hand at some Shakespeare merchandise, but I need more help with that (like, graphic design). Once I convince myself that it can make more money then it costs I might make it happen.

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Oooooo, want this. When Love Speaks is a CD of celebrities doing performances of Shakespeare sonnets and other famous works by you know who. The sample included in this all-flash site is Alan Rickman doing Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…”), but the CD also contains Richard Attenborough doing #17 (“Who will believe my verse in time to come…”) which I recited at my wedding, and Joseph Fiennes doing “Our revels now are ended…” from The Tempest.

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It appears that Hamlet’s castle is haunted. Or, at least, Kronburg Castle, which claims to be the inspiration for Shakespeare’s greatest work.

“Windows and doors fly open, stacks of paper disappear and reappear elsewhere, and tables set themselves,” she said.

Whatever they are, they seemed to be good-natured and don’t frighten the guests.
I like it. I wonder if the ghost is Polonius? Getting a snack? Seems like there’s a “not where he’s eaten, but where he eats” pun in there someplace.

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately, been a busy few weeks. We’re entertaining at my house for Christmas this year and trying to get the addition finished before everybody shows up. I’m still on the lookout for good stories, but right this moment I don’t have the time to dig through as many sources as I usually do.
So, have a great holiday, whichever you may be celebrating – although I believe some of the major ones all overlap this year, right? First day of Hannukah is the day after Christmas, and isn’t Kwaanza(sp?) always celebrated during that week anyway?

Patrick Stewart is coming. As part of a 3 week visit from the Royal Shakepseare Company to University of Michigan in late October, Stewart will play Anthony in Anthony and Cleopatra, and Prospero in The Tempest.

I think I knew that Stewart was doing the Royal Shakespeare thing, but I’m not sure I ever realized that it’s here in the states. I thought it was an England thing.

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