This is actually pleasing to me as a Shakespeare geek.  Mental Floss posts an article entitled 14 Sentences About 14 Shakespeare Comedies, containing several little side comments like “you’ll need to know the comedies if you truly want to impress with your obscure knowledge” and “There now, feeling a little more like a genius already, aren’t we?” The problem is they made half a dozen or more mistakes in their summaries, and promptly got taken to task for it before I ever even got a chance to respond.  Hooray for more Shakespeare geeks in the world!  

How do you know you’re a Shakespeare geek?  Your ears perk up when the latest Cheerios commercial comes on, you know the one where the son compares his upcoming test on Shakespeare with his father’s upcoming cholesterol test?  And you’re sitting there staring at the tv waiting for them to mention more about the Shakespeare.   They don’t, and it is very disappointing. 🙂

Ok, Dum Luks has a blog post up called “Selling Shakespeare” which contains a puzzle.  There’s a graphic containing a couple of words and numbers that is supposed to represent the ad for a run of 5 Shakespeare plays.  I have absolutely no idea to solve it.  I want to say “Measure for Measure” in there since the numbers appear to be inch markings, but that’d be pretty close to a guess.  Richard III?  Henry VI?  I don’t get it. Somebody go solve it and tell me the answer :).  

I got a kick out of this post about what happens when two guys are out having a pint, and one of them insults Shakespeare.   Reminds me of the friend of my wife who said that Taming of the Shrew was better than Hamlet, because it was more entertaining.  That was a fun drive home, I can tell you.  

http://literaturecirclesintheclassroom.blogspot.com/2007/03/im-ready-to-hang-with-that-cool-dude.html Mr. Miller has a post up about experiences teaching Midsummer’s to his 10th graders, and what’s worked for him.  I like how he goes off on a geeky tangent about setting up a collaborative wiki for them.