It’s March and time for Madness. But here at the Bill / Shakespeare Project, it’s not about the round ball, but about the grand Bard (of Avon, that is!). We’ve got a 32-play bracket, and today we finish the second half (the left side of the bracket) of the first round…
Continue reading “#BardMadness: Round One draws to a close!”
Don’t forget: you still have one day to vote on the first half (the right side of the bracket) of the first round…
It’s March and time for Madness. But here at the Bill / Shakespeare Project, it’s not about the round ball, but about the grand Bard (of Avon, that is!). We’ve got a 32-play bracket, and today we begin the first half (the right side of the bracket) of the first round…
Continue reading “Bard Madness: the first half of Round One”
It’s March and time for Madness. But here at the Bill / Shakespeare Project, it’s not about the round ball, but about the grand Bard (of Avon, that is!). We’ve got a 32-play bracket, but to squeeze into that 32-seeding slot, we have (like the NCAA itself) a play-in game:
Continue reading “Bard Madness–play-in: King John vs. The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
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A couple of weeks back, I tweeted out to the four major presidential candidates (yes, I included Libertarian and Green party noms), asking them to name their favorite Shakespearean character and why, spurred on by an article in the UK paper The Guardian citing US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement that his fave is Rosalind from As You Like It.
Alas, no responses yet (of course, these are busy people, and I really wasn’t expecting any).
Well, now it’s your turn…
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This week’s podcast continues our three month-long discussion of Antony and Cleopatra with a look back at the history behind the play, its production challenges, and a quick look ahead to a CONTEST!
Continue reading “Podcast 135: Antony and Cleopatra — Historical challenges”
A couple of days back, I tweeted out to the four major presidential candidates (yes, I included Libertarian and Green party noms), asking them to name their favorite Shakespearean character and why, spurred on by an article in the UK paper The Guardian last week citing US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement that his fave is Rosalind from As You Like It.
Alas, no responses yet (of course, these are busy people, and I really wasn’t expecting any).
Well, now it’s your turn…
Author (and frequent commentator on this blog) Jean Hegland posted a great idea, one that opens up the idea to you, o readers of this blog. She wrote:
OK, don’t forget: we’ve got a fun little contest for May, and one great prize to tempt you into playing.
It’s a simple question, really:
For those of you who have been truant the last couple of weeks, you may have missed an announcement made last week: we have a fun little contest for May, and one heckuva prize to tempt you into playing.
It’s a simple question, really:
For those of you who missed out on yesterday’s podcast (and shame on you if you did… you missed out on a fun conversation with Jean Hegland, author of Still Time), let me just re-announce our contest for the merry month of May…
The prize is straightforward enough…an autographed hardbound copy of Still Time:
