Read, Watch, Listen – Happy Birthday Willie – The Bard turns 449!
Want to Read Some Shakespeare? A Goodreads Infographic Want to Watch some Shakespeare? The earliest surviving British film version of Shakespeare's Richard III, accompanied by a specially commissioned...
View ArticleSpend Midsummer Online with The Royal Shakespeare Company
Oberon wakes Titania as Bottom sleeps in her bower and Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia sleep on their trapezes in Peter Brook’s 1970 Royal Shakespeare Co. production of Midsummer Night's Dream...
View ArticleRevenge: Shakespeare-Style
“IF YOU PRICK US DO WE NOT BLEED? IF YOU TICKLE US DO WE NOT LAUGH? IF YOU POISON US DO WE NOT DIE? AND IF YOU WRONG US SHALL WE NOT REVENGE?” – William Shakespeare It started innocently enough. …...
View ArticleShakespeare Takes Center Stage in the Rare Book World
John Baret’s Alvearie, 1580 Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven —William Shakespeare For some it would be as close to the Holy Grail as one can hope for. A...
View ArticleRapper’s Delight: A Strong Vocabulary
click here for hi-res version Matthew Daniels has created a pretty nifty flow chart with Pop Chart Lab ranking the size of the vocabulary of today’s leading hip-hop artists. Daniel explains the...
View ArticleShakespeare Altered: Imagining other looks for the Bard
Everyone knows who he is and everyone has an image in their mind of what he looks like. Now let’s open our mind and enjoy a sampling of what Shakespeare would look like if… The wonderful site Érase...
View ArticleIn the Stacks of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Frontispiece. The works of Mr. William Shakespear in six volumes, 1709 Back in August the Folger Shakespeare Library unsealed their almost 80,000 digital image archive! An absolute treasure-trove of...
View ArticleA peak at some of the treasures of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Did you know that 82 of the 233 surviving First Folios of Shakespeare’s plays live at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.? To mark the quadricentennial of his death The Folger is sending...
View ArticleTub Lit: Kickstarter project offers waterproof books
The latest crowdsourced gem for the book crowd comes to us from Bibliobath. Thanks to Wing Weng and Jasper Jansen, a Dutch-Chinese couple based in Amsterdam, we finally have the waterproof book! They...
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"Pulp Shakespeare"
Ever wonder what Shakespeare might have done with Quentin Tarantino's classic 1994 film Pulp Fiction? Well wonder no more - The Her Majesty's Secret Players production of "Pulp Shakespeare," continues...
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The Real Housewives of Shakespeare
The folks at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota have come up with a hugely entertaining look at the Bard's leading ladies. "In this shocking behind the scenes reality show we"...
View ArticleBe mean with Shakespeare: The Shakespeare insult kit
Ready to throw the verbal knockout? Choose one word from each column - you weedy motley-minded scut!via
View ArticleHamlet on a Bookmark
It started as a joke between cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and designer Katie Sekelsky. Wienersmith commented about being "so bookish, my bookmarks are smaller books’ and from there they got to the...
View ArticleRomeo and Juliet for the Smartphone Set
This visual is part of a new ad from AT&T. The accompanying text: Classic Literature, Reimagined For The Smartphone Era Forget star-crossed lovers joining one another in death ... being...
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