I wonder if Kerry will let me have this. Remember the original Batman series, with Adam West, where they would open the door to the batcave by flipping back the head of Shakespeare’s bust and throwing the switch? Well, now,

you too can have that bust! Neat. They say that it really works. I’d love to connect it up to like the garage door or something.

Not for $300, though. $50, maybe.

The Stage Online :: Newsblog – Quotes of the week….

I like it. Man’s got a point — why does everybody think that the only way to make Shakespeare accessible is to put it in the early 20th century?

I like his description of that, too — “This type of productions lacks specificity, encourages woolyy acting…It instills in me a quiet longing for death.”

For the most part when I talk about Shakespeare, I’m preaching to the choir. Odds are that the people who are coming by this blog are already fans of Shakespeare and all we can ever really hope for is an exchange of ideas / interpretations about the plays.

What I’m curious about, though, is the Shakespeare “haters”. Seems like it’s really a love/hate thing with the man. I don’t find many people that just have no opinion. I’m curious why people don’t like him, because I want to see if I can change that. Was it too hard to learn the plays in school? Did you start too early and not have the life experience? Was it all about the language? Couldn’t connect with the characters?

I’m honestly curious. I’m hoping somebody drops in and sheds some light. I think you’re missing out.

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Nick Saban, new head coach of the NFL Miami Dolphins, quotes William Shakespeare as a source of motivation and inspiration. Unfortunately the article doesn’t mention any specific quotes! That’s no fun. The article actually says “In the days leading up to his first game…” he quotes Shakespeare (among others), so I went back a few weeks looking for what he may have said, but nobody seemed to write about it :).

Still interesting, though, that it gets a mention now. I’ll be watching closer to see if he busts out any Shakespeare during a press conference. But if it’s St. Crispin’s Day, I’m going home. That’s too cliche.

🙂

Now this is neat. Ed Stoppard, son of Tom Stoppard, will play Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, written by his dad.

The interview’s a good length, and Ed covers his thoughts on what R&G did to Hamlet as a play (by giving us a behind the scenes and essentially making fun of the poor melancholy Dane), lines that were cut from Shakespeare in Love (also by dad Tom), how he got his name, and “Mick Jagger and David Bowie coming around for tea.”