Macbeth: fear in the night [upcoming]

So, sometimes I get mail… I try to check out almost everything that crosses the internet transom, and every now and then I see something that just makes me go: “hmmmmm”

Yesterday was one of those times.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, September 12th, 2016

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes shipwrecks and storms, racism, gambling, and video Shakespearean karaoke. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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YOUR question of presidential politics

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:

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A question of presidential politics

OK, a couple of days ago was Labor Day, the unofficial beginning of the home stretch of this year’s campaign for the U.S. Presidency.

And a week or so back, The Guardian newspaper in the UK ran a piece on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his statement that Rosalind from As You Like It is his favorite Shakespearean character.

And why, exactly, do I bring this up?

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, September 5th, 2016

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes MoMA’s Fall Bardfest, Shakespeare’s real estate business, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s favorite Shakespeare character, A Smokin’ Shakespeare Motown Much Ado, and boatload of reviews of the RSC’s King Lear. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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Happy Labor Day! [and meat the Bard-dog (meat, meet, get it?)]

Have a great day off!

Read some Shakespeare!

Have a hot dog… (recipe after the jump!)

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Table Top Shakespeare — streaming this week!

OK, a quick break from our regularly scheduled Antony and Cleopatra discussions…

I’ve been hearing about this bizarre performance piece called Table Top Shakespeare for a while now. This group, Forced Entertainment, has put together one-hour breakdowns of 36 of the Bard’s plays (in other words, just about all of them), in which one performer walks the audience through the play, explaining the characters and conflicts using everyday objects played out on a table top.

Or as their website puts it:

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, August 29th, 2016

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes the Toledo Museum of Art, a St. Louis mash-up, Tabletop Shakespeare, and a storm of outrage by parents over The Tempest (get it?). PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, August 22nd, 2016

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Mark Rylance as Olivia, “Who wrote Shakespeare?”, scoring the Bard, and reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, August 15th, 2016

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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes a horror anthology, Applied Shakespeare, Bard-influenced burlesque, and lots of Troilus. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.

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