I’ve already blogged about Hamlet 2 previously, but now there’s a trailer!  You know what?  It looks good!    The “doesn’t everybody die at the end of the first one” question is asked and answered in the trailer — time machine!  Out steps Hamlet…and Jesus!

http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/6644038.html Making the rounds.  Absolutely brilliant, wish it was longer.

Here’s a question that just came to mind (thanks, Alan).  Are you “in the business”, so to speak, of Shakespeare?  What’s your connection?  Do you get to do it as a full time job, a side job, a hobby?  Wish you could do more? As I’ve said in the past, this blog is really it for my connection to Shakespeare.  I do it as much as I can.  Lately it’s also turned into “book reviewer”, which I kind of dig, because I get to read books I wouldn’t normally, which in turn has definitely increased my exposure to all things Shakespeare. One of these days I hope to get something published on the topic of teaching Shakespeare, if for nothing else than to put my money where my mouth is and see if I know what I’m talking about.  Of course, I’ve been saying that for years.  Maybe by the time my kids get to high school?  The computer programmer geek in me keeps trying to turn the project into something interactive, technologically speaking, but then I go down that path for awhile before falling back on good old print.   Ok, who’s next?

This April 23 the world will celebrate William Shakespeare’s 444th birthday.  Nice number.  What are you doing, anything good?  I wish I’d planned something in advance, like a big giveaway or something.  But alas, nothing good this year from your Shakespeare Geek. 

http://www.cartoonstock.com/search.asp?x=a&keyword=shakespeare&Category=Not+Selected&Boolean=Or&Artist=Not+Selected&submit=Search I don’t really love the quality of this site’s work, but it’s been in my saved pages for awhile and I figure it does have enough Shakespeare content to deserve a link.  This is a catalog of reprintable cartoons, with a Shakespeare theme.  Or rather, reference.  Many of them are variations on the “to be or not to be” thing.  There’s at least one with a typo (nice quality control).  And some I just don’t get at all — who is Fifi Oscard? What I did find amusing was artist “Kes”, who has 10 pieces in the catalog – 5 of which are Yorick jokes, with Hamlet posed the exact same way in each picture :).  I’ll bet it’s like writing greeting cards, you think of 10 variations on a single theme, so rather than going with the best one you just go with all of them.