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A month ago I asked, How should we deal with Anonymous? In general, other than some assorted Twitter chats, I’ve not said much. But today it opens, and it’s come to my attention that people (students in particular) may show up here looking for a counter argument. So I wanted to use this space not … Continue reading Our Position on “Anonymous”
I got into work this morning to a note from Bardfilm that he’d started a new game on Twitter that he called, “Shakespearean First Drafts”. As has become our new policy, here’s a best-of post for posterity: “We are all made of dream stuff.” “Hey look, it’s Juliet up in the balcony. Hi, Juliet!” “Brutus … Continue reading Best of “Shakespearean First Drafts”
Now that the experts have been gathered at 60 Minutes With Shakespeare to answer the very important scholarly issue of Shakespearean authorship, I thought maybe we could queue up some other equally important issues for them to tackle next? Five Questions Just As Important As Shakespeare Authorship, Seriously, No, We Really Mean It, No Sarcasm … Continue reading Five Other Important Shakespeare Questions
Score one for my mom, who has apparently been paying attention when I talk. A few weeks ago she handed me Arliss Ryan’s The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare , which she’d picked up at a yard sale for fifty cents. “I saw Shakespeare and thought of you,” she told me. I enjoy that this … Continue reading Review : The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare
My first time seeing All’s Well That Ends Well! Good night for it – the rain held off, and we got the best seats we’d ever had (in the “tall chair” section, right up against the edge of the VIP section, who all have low chairs). It’s an amusing little play, kind of all over … Continue reading Review : All’s Well That Ends Well, Commonwealth Shakespeare 2011