It would be easy to dismiss such NaNoWriMo-style activities as the all night reading of Shakespeare at Wellesley or the attempt at 38 Days: 38 Plays to read all thirty-eight canonical plays in as many days as symptoms of a society that falls over today as it tries to catch up with yesterday in [...]
Read further anon →Minds have been a-wandering, not least mine as I wrestle with questions domestic, sadly of the twenty-first rather than the sixteenth century variety. It’s back to the “scepter’d isle” for me, although probably not to the parts which are included in Gaunt’s speech, who like all true Englishmen, ignores the presence of Scotland and Wales on [...]
Read further anon →Shakespeare finds his defenders and detractors on the web this week. On the attack is the Plastic Mancunian, arguing that Shakespeare is overrated. The main piece of evidence seems to be the voluminous notes provided by the Shakespeare industry.
In fact, when I was at school I distinctly recall reading a Shakespeare play in a [...]
Read further anon →With the release of Electronic Art’s Dante’s Inferno, a video game based on the Italian poet’s trip to the underworld, it is inevitable that other classic authors are looked to as sources for gaming inspiration. Indeed, as Jessica reported on The Standard earlier this week, Shakespeare has already had the video game treatment with [...]
Read further anon →Shakespeare abounds in the blogosphere (is that word still current?), but harder to find is the amusing and stimulating. In this series of posts I’ll be bringing you a round-up of the best for your entertainment and intellectual refreshment.
As my colleague Caroline knows, the Shakespeare Geek is particularly addictive, offering readings of plays [...]
Read further anon →Hemingway’s is the most famous example. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Apparently, he thought it his best. Smithmag gave us six word lives. The Standard wants Six Word Shakespeare. Thirty-seven plays, all awaiting compression. We can start with his own.
“Star-crossed lovers take their life.” Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare.
Some attempts from [...]
Read further anon →Is Othello the Shakespearean tragedy of our times? It all seems to be there: precarious employment, mobility, and the hand-to-mouth existence of a globalized world.
Of course, there are questions of race and gender, and these have opened reservoirs of academic ink, with notable examples coming from Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, [...]
Read further anon →Following the death of J.D. Salinger, the Shakespeare Geek revisits that author’s victorious law suit against John David California’s 60 Years On: Coming Through the Rye, and ponders how Shakespeare might have fared among such litigious peers.
Not well, it would have seemed. Salinger won an injunction prohibiting the US publication of the book [...]
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