Does anyone know if they've continued filming plays at the Globe for Globe On Screen since Emma Rice has been the Artistic Director? I haven't been paying much attention, since I haven't been that interested, frankly (the weird Dia de los Muertos production of Romeo and Juliet this season made me want to flip some tables, for example), but ( Read more... )

Does anyone - people who have been to conferences more recently than I have, and stopped by the Arden table, for example - know anything more about the Arden Performance Editions series ( Read more... )

If you’ve ever struggled to read a Shakespeare play, don’t feel bad: Ian McKellen is here to assure you that reading Shakespeare is impossible. In fact, he argues, actually reading and interpreting a Shakespeare play is a task meant only for actors, in much the same way reading sheet music is a task meant only for musicians. In both cases, the ( Read more... )

It looks like you can get the one-volume in hardcover with the option of purchasing the digital edition, but if you buy the two-volume set, you get the digital edition registration card automatically ( Read more... )

Buh what?
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/apr/23/shakespeare-in-love-450th-birthday-video

You all know that I adore Shakespeare in Love, and part of that is precisely for the reason that James Shapiro gives in this ( Read more... )

We may make it as far as Romeo and Juliet's farewell scene today ("Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day"), although I have my doubts. Still, in preparing it for discussion, I'm struck again - this has been the case throughout this reading of the play - by how alive the language of Romeo and Juliet is. Literally so, almost: the two of them make ( Read more... )

This article doing the rounds on Twitter made me well up ( Read more... )

I have to teach Hamlet this week, you guys!

Hamlet gives me mental whiplash, basically: last night I was practically skipping home because I knew that I got to listen to lectures on the play, and how can life be bad when one is allowed to think about Hamlet? And then I remembered that I have to *teach* Hamlet, not just splash around in its ( Read more... )

(Which is what you would say if you had a dog named "First Quarto," I guess. Oh, I'm so tired.) (I totally wanted a dog named Fortinbras, though, because the Murrys in A Wrinkle in Time had one. Fortinbras or Gobo, of all things.)

Blargh.

I'm supposed to teach Hamlet today, which is the last play on the summer school syllabus. And I don't wanna ( Read more... )

(I often think that a reading group with Pamela Dean's Tam Lin as the starting point, and then followed by some of the texts that get read or referenced, would be a fun time. Maybe it's just that I found myself reading Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Revenger's Tragedy in very short succession this term ( Read more... )