I love people who are creative enough to come up with stuff like these Magic cards in an Othello edition. I always have a million ideas for games, but lack the attention span to make a complete and consistent set of rules for them, as well as the resources to make the necessary materials. (I usually get stuck in that limbo of “I’ll make a video game – no, a card game! No, a video game! No, a board game….”)
Not this guy — visit the link to check out his Othello card (he is a Hero/Villain card, depending on what other character cards are in play), or maybe his Desdemona (power 1 / defense 1, not a strong character…) And this is only one of a number of sets! Very impressive.
The question has come up before, but it’s always fun to ask again – does anybody know any Shakespeare card games? Stuff like this – where players could use their knowledge of the subject as well as learning more about the subject during the game – is the best. Not just talking about some other game’s rules where the cards have been decorated with Shakespeare images.

I’m trying to figure out what exactly this is. There’s going to be movie versions of Shakespeare plays shown nationwide? At a movie theatre near me? That could be cool. I wonder what movies …
“…the series will kick off in June with The Merry Wives of Windsor followed by Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 in August and closing in September with Henry VIII. “
…Oh. Not really sure how this is going to play to a nationwide US audience. Why those in that combination? They couldn’t squeeze in a tragedy, or a better known comedy?
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110602006410/en/Shakespeare%E2%80%99s-Classic-Works-U.S.-Movie-Theaters-Nationwide

I know that Roland Emmerich’s new movie Anonymous is coming soon and will tell us that Oxford wrote Shakespeare.
But save a little bit of your scorn, oh ye Geeks, because apparently that’s not the only authorship movie in town. Be on the lookout in 2012 for a *Marlowe* movie?!
This information comes from a press release by the author of The Shakespeare Conspiracy, Ted Bacino:

The second movie, based on his book, The Shakespeare Conspiracy, by Ted Bacino, is scheduled for release in early 2012 and credits Marlowe with the writings. It is being produced by the Motion Picture Hall of Fame and Borone Films.

I don’t know much else we’ll hear about what could be a vanity/indie project, but I figured it was worth a mention. ‘Tis the season for Authorship debate, I guess.

A long time ago we had a great discussion over that classic quote about how Shakespeare “never blotted a line,” and the follow-up “Would he had blotted a thousand!” Did that imply that he made 1000 mistakes that should have been erased … or that he could possibly have made room for 1000 more moments of genius?
Tell me your least favorite line(s) in Shakespeare. The one that makes you cringe, and which he’d never written it. Makes you want to just take your red pen and strike it from existence, because it just doesn’t *feel* right.
I’m not talking about snipping of entire characters and speeches because you need to cut down on time and/or people. I’m talking specifically about lines that rub you the wrong way because they don’t flow like they should, or they sound out of character, stuff like that. As if you were a modern editor and were sending notes back to the author with whatever the mark is that’s the editor’s equivalent of “WTF were you thinking here, Will?”
I ask because I’m wondering whether people will accept the challenge, or whether I’ll get a lot of “Every word Shakespeare wrote was perfect” debate.

So, Stylist Magazine wrote me today with a link to their Shakespeare’s Most Memorable Quotes article. I get lots of similar requests and often brush them off as linkbait. But this one is actually quite good, and worth a link, and I’ll tell you why.
First, there’s 40 of them, not just 10. So even those most of them are the same old classics we’ve heard a million times, there’s plenty in there that you’re not used to seeing make the cut – including selections from Merry Wives and Measure for Measure.
Each quote is cited – play, act and scene. I can’t tell you how much it bothers me when I cruise through the various quote databases online and find quotes mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare, because people just blindly copy something from one place to another with no research or concern for quality.
There’s a picture for just about all of them of an actual stage (or film) production. So part of the fun is recognizing which productions you’ve seen, and which actors you can spot. For a small handful they went with a drawing or book cover – I wonder why? And, having said that, does anybody know where that Lear image comes from? It’s quite jarring.
Note as well, if it doesn’t become obvious, that there’s both rollover text as well as a slide show. So you can either hover your mouse over each image to check out the quote, or just click on one to zoom in, and then page through all of them. The user interface engineer in me appreciates that very much.
So, something for everybody. Even if you know all the quotes you can still have fun checking out the images. Somebody over there didn’t just try to drum up some traffic by sticking Shakespeare’s name on a bullet list. They actually put some research into it. Well done, Stylist!