So I was reading the sonnets today at lunch.  Not somebody’s commentary, the plain text file.  I was looking for something random and romantic to text my wife on this nice spring day we’re having.  (I know, awwww…….:))  [UPDATE : I actually started this yesterday, I just realized that I’m posting it a) before lunch … Continue reading Analysis of Sonnet 12 : When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/stephon_marbury_embroils_celtics I love it when The Onion does it Shakespeare style.  “A Director Sets A Play In the Time and Place Shakespeare Intended” is still one of the great Onion stories of all time. When you throw in my Boston Celtics, well, then it’s comedy gold. "Weird thing is, he kept calling the other guys … Continue reading Celtic Shakespeare

Check this out.  Shakespeare’s Den is holding a photo contest to find people who are putting a little Shakespeare in their summer vacation.  I’m on one of my summer vacations now (no Shakespeare to be found), but in August I’ll be heading down to Cape Cod to see The Tempest, maybe I can get some … Continue reading Summer Shakespearience : Photo Contest

I wrote earlier today that “Words are timeless, performance is not.”  If the greatest performance of Hamlet was performed 100 years ago, what’s that to me?  I missed it.  Even today, the most ardent defenders of the “see it don’t read it” school still freely admit “Every night is different.”  So perhaps the best performance … Continue reading Performance Envy