Hi! I’m back. I’m so thankful to Kim for filling in for me last week. The Bard is truly relevant and global, as I have continually pointed out in the months that I have been an editor. For this week, let us open more caskets.
Global Casket Continued
Shakespearean imagination has penetrated [...]
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God ye good day. Jingling-jangling this week’s news.
SHAKESPEARE’S ORIGINAL PRONUNCIATION
The British Library launched a CD of Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation in February 2012. The release of the disc was so anticipated and desired that it is still trumpeting the web.
The CD is orchestrated by the father [...]
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If you are out in Hollywood, check out this production: Two Gentlemen of Chicago. Riffing on Two Gents, the company incorporates Shakespeare’s text with music by the band Chicago as well as some dance and improv. For example, both Valentine and Proteus try to woo Sylvia with the [...]
Read further anon →Hello all, Steven here and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. This is your weekly place for all things Education and Shakespeare. What have we got this week for you? Well let’s see: Teachers learning how to teach Shakespeare, A lecture on Shakespeare and Verdi in Chicago, and much more.
Teachers getting taught [...]
Read further anon →A sunny day to everyone! I am on vacation right now and had to jump to the mall to get some internet access and get some time to write this week’s Portia’s Caskets.
What is up for this week? My newsfeed is still abuzz over Anonymous. But honestly, are you as over this [...]
Read further anon →The great thing about Shakespeare is the strange and varied company he keeps. This week’s performance roundup features appearances from a Nobel Prize winner and former First Daughter, as well as Radiohead and Quentin Tarantino.
Director Peter Sellars and writer Toni Morrison bring their new production Desdemona, a follow-up to Sellars’ controversial 2009 Broadway [...]
Read further anon →On September 15 at The Crucible theatre in Sheffield, England, two stars from the highly acclaimed HBO epic The Wire, will debut in Shakespeare’s quintessential psychological drama, Othello. Clarke Peters (who played detective Lester Freeman) will feature in the title role, opposite Dominic West (detective Jimmy McNulty) as Iago.
Then link between The Wire and [...]
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