So I just got back from an NT Live screening of Simon Russell Beale's harrowing, thought-provoking Timon of Athens, on which I will, before too long, have a lot to say. This is not, however, that post. Because last night I joined a group of fellow masochists in a group hate-watching of Anonymous, Roland Emmerich's feculent anti-Shakespearean ( Read more... )

OH MARK RYLANCE NO

...Mark, I love you, but you are embarrassing yourself pretty thoroughly here. It is making me cringe and I didn't think I had an embarrassment squick.

Thing that annoys me greatly: this article, which argues that the sonnets prove that Shakespeare was gay and found women repulsive

Thing that annoys me equally greatly: comments to said article which are all "ZOMG NO SHAKESPEARE WASN'T GAY ELIZABETHANS WERE JUST LIKE THAT ABOUT MALE FRIENDSHIP."

*slaps everybody with fish*THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THE ( Read more... )

So apparently the Beeb is doing some kind of Shakespeare season in 2012, on the grounds that the London Olympics are an occasion for cultural showing-off, and Shakespeare is surely the best thing to come out of England, and also because the Tennant Hamlet was deservedly a big hit ( Read more... )

Quite possibly the stupidest study I have ever seen. Some douche analyzed the size of the food relative to the size of the heads in paintings of the Last Supper and concluded OH NOES WE ARE ALL DOOMED.

*beats head repeatedly against desk*

I do not even know where to START. So here, have some better links:

An open letter to conservatives, written ( Read more... )