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.
The soul of wit:
Nothing really new or exciting in this intro article to “What Shakespeare means to us today”, but I like it. All the usual bases are covered – popular quotes, words he invented, and so on. Neat if you didn’t already know most of it.
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Shakespeare & Cervantes Become Friends (January 4th, 2006):
See, now, here’s an intriguing premise for a movie that hopefully won’t come off like a sequel to “Shakespeare in Love.” Many fans and scholars know that there is an odd connection between the man who wrote Don Quixote and the man who wrote Hamlet. The lost Shakespeare play “Cardenio” is believed to have been based on a story by Cervantes. Both men even died on the same day (April 23, 1616).
This fictional story looks at what might have happened during the four years when Shakespeare disappeared from historical records.
I’ll keep an eye out for more news and gossip about this movie.
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Ok, anybody got any Shakespeare related resolutions? Plays you should have read but haven’t? Plays/movies you want to see? Merchandise you want to buy?
I’d like to (note my wording – chicken!) get an application up and running on the web that allows people to tag and comment on various aspects of the plays, ideally in a way that hasn’t been done yet :). I like the idea that somebody (who I think prefers to live anonymously) just passed along about using a voice recorder to brain dump thoughts on various scenes and then put them together into a podcast.
I also want to try my hand at some Shakespeare merchandise, but I need more help with that (like, graphic design). Once I convince myself that it can make more money then it costs I might make it happen.
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Oooooo, want this. When Love Speaks is a CD of celebrities doing performances of Shakespeare sonnets and other famous works by you know who. The sample included in this all-flash site is Alan Rickman doing Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…”), but the CD also contains Richard Attenborough doing #17 (“Who will believe my verse in time to come…”) which I recited at my wedding, and Joseph Fiennes doing “Our revels now are ended…” from The Tempest.
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It appears that Hamlet’s castle is haunted. Or, at least, Kronburg Castle, which claims to be the inspiration for Shakespeare’s greatest work.
“Windows and doors fly open, stacks of paper disappear and reappear elsewhere, and tables set themselves,” she said.
Most of the employees have reported strange happenings at the restaurant, such as two seeing inexplicable gray shadows waft by and another claiming to have seen the ghost of an old man in the kitchen, Pedersen said.
Whatever they are, they seemed to be good-natured and don’t frighten the guests.
I like it. I wonder if the ghost is Polonius? Getting a snack? Seems like there’s a “not where he’s eaten, but where he eats” pun in there someplace.
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