Some Shakespeare News

Three links make a post, as they say… First, from Twitter, the news of the Shakespeare Quartos Archive Very early editions of Shakespeare’s works will be available in electronic format, starting with Hamlet. From Shakespeare Geek, riffing on the subject of my post from this past weekend about luddites, Shakespeare Had No Blackberry. And from [...]

Three Things Make a “Post”

Let’s start with the delightful “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. Along with the proliferation of apostrophes where no apostrophe needs to be, we see “quotation marks” all over the place. Someone is keeping track and commenting dryly on them. I find this one fascinating: The Book Depository Live. Watch in real time as people all [...]

Aardman does Shakespeare

Brilliantly, of course. How many plays can you identify?

Who? Hamlet!

I’ve heard via Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet” that David Tennant – yes, Dr. Who himself – is going to be playing Hamlet in a new RSC production. Not only that, but Patrick Stewart is to play Claudius! Oh my. Can I haz ticketz plz??? (and a ticket to England, while you’re at it…). [...]

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