I’m thankful for Shakespeare.
I’m thankful for Lisa and my boys, who are willing to humor me and indulge me in this whole crazy endeavor.
I’m thankful for Shakespeare.
I’m thankful for Lisa and my boys, who are willing to humor me and indulge me in this whole crazy endeavor.
A couple of days back, while doing my usual scan of Shakespeare news stories for the Facebook page, I came across an item of interest in the Hindustan Times (yeah, from India) about The Shakespeare Quartos Archive project.
The effort, a joint project of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, attempts to reproduce and display on the web “at least one copy of every edition of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in quarto before the theatres closed in 1642” (http://quartos.org/info/about.html). Tied to this is the creation of a brand new interactive interface, which allows users to (among other things): mark and tag text images with user annotations, search full-text, download and print text and images, and compare images side-by-side.
It’s pretty damn cool.
Continue reading “Buddy, Can You Spare a Quarto”
As I ready myself for Saturday’s trip up to Santa Barbara to see the Globe Theatre’s touring production of Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Granada Theater, I’ve been doing a quick inventory of the plays I’ve seen…
Continue reading “Audience Showcard”
Dress up as your fave Shakespearean character!
A post-transformation Bottom is always fun! (of course, Caesar means togas…)
Have a great one, and see you tomorrow for the final podcast on 1HenryVI….
Just for scat and laughs, I did a little data mining tonight… as of today:
No, it’s not a production… it’s kinda even better.
The Clark Library of UCLA (my alma mater and the best damn university in the world [OK, so I’m a *LITTLE* biased!]) is about to receive a $2 million collection of 72 books related to Shakespeare. The Library, which I’m chagrined to say I’ve never heard of, is located off-campus in the West Adams area (for those of you who know LA), and houses a number of rare books.
Continue reading “Shakespeare Comes to UCLA (my alma mater!)”
Yesterday, we discussed marital and legal matters when it comes to women. Today, let’s just look the general role of women during the Elizabethan era.
Continue reading “Role of Women”
OK, we’ve only glossed over this so far in this month’s discussion of The Taming of the Shrew… but let’s take a couple of days and discuss matters of Elizabethan marital and gender legality, and the role of women during Shakespeare’s day.
Continue reading “Elizabethan Marital/Gender Legality”
Every week we have a podcast (on Sunday).
This Sunday we won’t. It may happen on Monday. Or it may not happen at all this week.
Why?
Continue reading “An Apology: This Podcast Interrupted by…”
As I go through this blogging exercise, I find myself going back to the same handful of tools over and over again:
Continue reading “(the not so digital) Tools of the Trade”