On bended knee, your humble columnist bids you welcome to Oberon’s Orb once again. On this fine Monday in the spring-time (“the only pretty ring-time”, as per As You Like It), I shall regale you with news, news and more news.
Excellent Folly
Didn’t the figure of the court jester always seem weird to [...]
Good day at once. This is my first post. You are all well met. I am going to bring ye news about Shakespeare’s language every Saturday. I should warn ye though that I suffer from BS – Bardic Syndrome, which often makes me accidentally slip into Shakespearean or talk gibberishly with Will’s tongue in my cheek – [...]
Read further anon →Marin Shakespeare Company in Northern California takes to the stage July 6, 2012
Power and politics; comedy and romance; laughter and lies
fill the stage in Marin’s only annual outdoor Shakespeare festival
SAN RAFAEL, CA – This summer the Marin Shakespeare Company sets its outdoor stage for politics, enchantment, romance and comedy presenting “King [...]
Read further anon →WHO: The BSF Players
WHAT: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
WHEN/WHERE: The Great Hall Theatre, St. Mary’s Outreach Center,900 Roland Ave., Baltimore, MD
Thurs. 4/12 7:30pm (Press Preview) Press admitted free, 5$ tickets for Students, Teachers, and Artists
Fri. 4/20 7:30pm
Sat. 4/21 2 & 7:30pm
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Greetings from the SAA convention in Boston! It has been a fabulous few days of papers, plenaries and conversations, and the Scrivener is here to report on some of the latest news in Shakespeare scholarship.
There were a number of plenary sessions covering a range of topics, from primatology to the Romantics to representation of [...]
Read further anon →Romeo and Juliet: The War – A Review
Superhero creator and pop culture icon/guru Stan Lee has had some success with his 2011 sci-fi comic book version of Romeo and Juliet (click here to see the trailer), and now is the time for Oberon’s Orb to take a deeper look at [...]
Calls for Papers and other scholarship news in the world of Shakespeare and No Fooling! We also ask, as we begin April (the month of Shakespeare’s birthday) how will your local universities, theatres, and schools be celebrating Shakespeare in the run up to April 23?
Read further anon →You down with the OP?
Ever wonder how Shakespeare might have originally sounded? As we know from so-called “slant rhyme”- rhyme that does not quite fit , it is possible that lines such as
Thy mantle good,
what stained with blood? -Midsummer
would actually rhyme. Many are the scholars dedicated to “reviving” the “Original Pronunciation”, [...]
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