April 2010
15 posts
A One minute Macbeth →
http://www.doink.com/clips/phineas/114957/shakespeares-macbeth
From Paraguay!
Though I had heard many references to Shakespeare’s works growing up - especially Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet - my first full experience came when I was eleven, when I heard the beautiful Sonnet 29 on the TV series Beauty and the Beast (in Vincent’s voice). Getting to know him has been a joy since then. Happy birthday, Shakespeare! Love, Vicky (in Paraguay, South America)
“*Advance our standards, set upon our foes, Our ancient word of courage fair...”
– “Richard III.,” Act v. sc. 3. Mishka Zakharin (author of ‘The Spleen of Fiery Dragons’) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCuA7EVPk0
William Shakespeare/Dr. Paul Grabill
I fell in love with William Shakespeare in Dr, Paul Grabill’s English Literature classes at University of Evansville: thank you, Paul! *Jaques:* All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143 …>
celebrating "THY DAY"
Mayor Daley, you couldn’t have made our day any better by declaring April 23rd “Talk Like Shakespeare Day.” Our students are currently reading Romeo & Juliet and have been preparing a Renaissance dance with their “handmade” masks and head coverings (for the ladies). How wonderful that the “masquerade ball” is ON APRIL 23rd!! We hope to be forwarding...
My intro to Shakespeare
Although I knew about him prior to high school, my first REAL intro was in a Shakespeare Class taught by Joann Eisenberg in Southfield Michigan in 1972, I think. She would play records of the plays as we followed along with the text. She would be laughing SO hard, she would literally be falling on the floor in hysterics, and then stop the record to explain through her gasping laughter, that he was...
Will's Words →
Check out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/swf/words.html
A fun word game based on Shakespeare’s language!
Our plans for celebrating at work
In my office, we will be celebrating Talk Like Shakespeare Day with a Shakespeare book drive. Everyone will bring a copy of their favorite Shakespeare play, and then we will donate them all to our local high school. It seemed like a good way to celebrate Shakespeare – by ensuring that generations to come are exposed to his work! David S. -St. Louis, Missouri
Shakespearean Experience
When my oldest son was sixteen and studying Shakespeare, he surprised me by quoting the Bard. I was on his case to clean up his room. He turned, looked down at me and said, without missing a beat, “Thou canst not say I did it! Shake not thy gory lock at me.” After I quit laughing, he went to his room and uncovered the floor. Nancy B. Lincolnshire, IL
Happy Birthday Shakespeare!
Happy birthday to thee…Happy birthday to thee…Happy birthday dear William, Happy birthday to thee! (Thank you for your literary gifts to the world!) - A Chicago fan
LATE Performs All Of Shakespeare's Plays In... →
http://BroadwayWorld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=12120
On Sunday, April 25, 2010 the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble and the Powerhouse Theatre will attempt to break the record longest, continuous, marathon reading of Shakespeare’s work. Participants will read the entire canon of Shakespeare’s plays around the clock for up to six days.
Passing Strange
Talk Like Shakespeare Day!! Yes, we did indeed read and discuss Shakespeare. Yes, Ron did win the Silly Sonnet competition. (See his entry below) Yes, we did have pizza and even birthday cake to celebrate The Bard of Avon’s 445th birthday. And yes, you could say “’twas passing strange.” (Othello Act 1, scene 3) But most of all it was a bunch of really cool folks hanging out and...
The Metal Shakespeare Company
M’lords/Ladies, I thee write from the shire of Portland in the kingdom of Oregon, where we too celebrate with stout enthusiasm the Bard at our Shakespeare Festival in Ashlande. A group of ministrils of which I am a part dideth grace this festival when last the days were long and warm. I write simply to make thy acquaintance on this honoured day, and to share a video which thou may deem...
my first Shakespeare
My first and favorite Shakespeare memory is: We were listening to Oedipus (I think) in Honors English. This was in the “olden days” of albums and record players. The teacher left the room to get the next record and the captain of our football team asked if anyone had an emery board. I thought that was a wee bit odd, but gave him one anyway. He then proceeded to file the needle down on...
We'll be talking like Shakespeare!
Babes With Blades theatre company will be having our final dress rehearsal for our all-female-cast MACBETH tonight, with previews starting tomorrow, so, verily, there’ll be PLENTY of Shakespeare-speak! BabesWithBlades.org
We'll be talking like Shakespeare!
Babes With Blades theatre company will be having our final dress rehearsal for our all-female-cast MACBETH tonight, with previews starting tomorrow, so, verily, there’ll be PLENTY of Shakespeare-speak! BabesWithBlades.org
Yay Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Chicago: http://ghostlightchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/shakespeare-in-chicago.html
Hedge Society: Shakespearience
Check out Hedge Society’s posting: http://hedgesociety.typepad.com/hedge_society/2009/03/overhead-conversations-with-my-niece.html
Shakespearience
When I was in high school our drama teacher would take us to the Denver Center to see a Shakespeare play. Being the drama/literature geeks we were, our excitement was palpable; and, being teenagers to boot, we were also very silly. One year, on our way to Denver in the van, my friends and I decided that our excitement was not good enough, so when we stopped by the Acorn gas station in Walsenburg...
But can you SING like Shakespeare...??
By happy circumstance, Bella Voce, Chicago’s premier a cappella ensemble, will perform “Three Shakespeare Songs” by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). The songs are “Full Fathom Five” (The Tempest, Act 1, sc 2), “The Cloud Capp’d Towers” (The Tempest, Act 4, sc 1), and “Over Hill, Over Dale” (Midsummer Night’s...
WBEZ takes a stab at traffic...in iambic...
Fabulous! http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=3036
Do the Hokey pokey and turn yourself around!
Here’s a fun way to have a Happy Bardday— (1) Form a big circle. (2) Everybody sing: O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke, A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke. Blessed...
a new Shakespeare sonnet for you
Our latest winter has now come and gone, Another time to make account. We see The harvest bounty yet so newly won Laid safe in store to wait whate’er might be. Though droughts or storms are yearly forecast still, Our voice is strong above the sounds of gloom, We shout our needs and sow the seeds that will Soon grow to flower in banks where fortunes bloom. But yet; my restless mind allows no peace,...
Collected Birthday Wishes
Shackespeare happy birthday you by any other name is still genius – JD Happiest of birthday wishes. Thou is thy greatest poet/playwrite that has ever walked thy earth. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.” - Charolette Donahue Happy birthday you inspired the world with your great plays and poems - Joshua Methinks...
Happy Day!
Oh Talk Like Shakespeare Day in Chicago, I cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like women in men’s apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple time—I cannot: but I love thee. Twas as sweet as a pigeon’s egg to have you, friends, within our walls last Saturday eventide. Much thanks for coming hither. Fare thee well!...
Favorite Quote
Hi! Since you asked, and I like Act III, Scene II of Othello, where Desdemona and Emilia discuss whether they would cheat on their husbands and why. I like Emilia’s reasoning that, if she had the whole world after doing something, it wouldn’t matter if the thing were wrong. I especially love Emilia’s last speech — “But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If...
More Birthday Wishes
thy quoteth a shakespeare momenteth… What’s in a name That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Methinks shakespeare is cool. Happyeth birthday of joy. how old is thou.
Birthday Wishes
Methinks liketh learning about shakespeare and at first before this lesson all Methinks kneth about him was he wroteth a book and Methinks enjoyeth watcheth those movies we watcheth they were informeth.Methinks also learneth how to talk like thou. happeth Birthday Day Shakespeare.
Kurosawa and Shakespeare
I was in the 5th grade, and for the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, our teacher had read us the story of *Macbeth *from Lamb’s *Tales from Shakespeare*. That Saturday, I turned on the tv and saw a film in what I thought was Chinese or Japanese that was fascinating. As I watched, I realized it was a version of *Macbeth*. Turns out it was *Throne of Blood....
A Shake-y blog about mama's boys, shipwrecks and...
Mark has posted a whole bunch of great stuff in honor’s of the big day. Check it out at: http://markingtime4now.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/get-thee-to-a-shakespeare-event-or-fillum/
The Relevancy of Shakespeare (from Mercersburg) →
Why are we still talking about this guy? This blog from Mercersburg attempts to tackle the question.
What Would Shakespeare Be Like Today? →
Ok, so this one’s kind of old, but it’s completely worth it for the photo!
NPR: Could Shakespeare Survive in Hollywood? →
Take a listen to this NPR story—verrrry interesting!
Are there descendents of Shakespeare? →
I always wondered this myself…why didn’t I just check his Birthplace Trust in the first place???
My first experience with Shakespeare?
Freshman English, 30 years ago. We read Romeo & Juliet, and the class went to Canada — Stratford Upon Avon — to see it performed. I was hooked from that moment on. I still haven’t lost my passion for Bill. Christina A. Walker
First memory of Shakespeare
My first memory of Shakespeare is my dad coaching me to answer his question “when was Shakespeare born?” in front of his English Department colleagues. I was four.