Shakespeare makes life better.
Most of the posts in this category are simply leftovers from a previous era before the site had categories. Over time I plan to reduce that number to zero and remove this category. Until then, here they are. I had to put something in the box.
Doing a little searching of Google Video turned up this “obscure gem”, a silent movie version of Twelfth Night apparently from 1910.
Actually there’s lots of free Shakespeare video in there, so have a field day. Lots of it seems to be from “60 Second Shakespeare” which is some sort of BBC workshop. And a number of high school productions.
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So, my traffic spiked yesterday and I had no idea why. Turns out that I’m the lead-off quote in a Google Book Search story about Shakespeare. Apparently they liked the whole “Sonnet 18 by David Gilmour” story. Thanks for the link, Arielle!
She (I assume?) called Troilus and Cressida and “obscure gem”. Not sure which, if either, of those words I agree with :).
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Ok, this is just painful. On this week’s edition of NPR’s “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” there was an item about the changing curriculum of Shakespeare in England. Apparently (looking for a news item to back this up) they’re officially making it “easier”. Ready for the quote they gave? From Macbeth, they use the example: “Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee…I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” Apparently this is being translated, and I’m not making this up, into “Oooooo, wouldya lookat that?”
At least one line in Romeo and Juliet, as well, is translated into “Hey, how ’bout a snog?”
It’s almost too silly to believe, but they reported it as a true story. Gotta find me some confirmation!
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Just found this blog post where the author claims that Shakespeare, in his opinion, is overrated as a playwright. Just thought it was something my readers might want to go check out.
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Promptbooks are copies of the script with a whole bunch of handwritten notes inside that the actors would have used to detail exactly how a scene would be played. This site has scans of a number of Shakespearean prompt books, including Macbeth. Fascinating stuff. It’s a little hard to navigate at first. Head for the images, basically. If you find yourself on a page that says “Hand” a lot, it’s actually describing in detail who wrote what on the page — but there’s probably an image of the page that you can click on.