(Untitled)

[angevin2]

A List of Things Posted To My Tumblr (and Facebook) Today In Honor of Shakespeare's Birthday (OBSERVED, THERE, BETH, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW):

VIDEOS

Comments

[kindkit]

Argh, that Talk Like Shakespeare page! So very, very wrong.

I tried to watch the Patrick Stewart clip, but although Stewart is great, I just cannot bear to watch Lavinia's inarticulate suffering. (And also, I want to slap John Barton for saying "ravished." Dude, Lavinia was raped and prettifying it is disgusting.)

[maeveenroute]

When in doubt, add the letters "eth" to the end of verbs (he runneth, he trippeth, he falleth).

Noooo, CST! No no noooo!

[gwynnega]

I love that version of Feste's song.

[gwynnega]

I also love the version of the song at the end of the BBC Twelfth Night...

[melusinehr]

My memory must be very bad, because I do not remember a Shakespeare play in which a woman threw the guy she loved in the Tower, banished his friends, and claimed the throne. Is Chicago Shakespeare Theater on drugs and thinking of Elizabeth?

Also, I hoped for a moment that the YouTube clip was from the 1996 RNT production, which I saw and loved and still think was my favorite Twelfth Night ever. Alas, no, but good cast.

[melusinehr]

I would be impressed with that kind of subtlety on their part, considering how off the rest of their suggestions are...

This is my only Shakespeare-related icon at all; you're way closer than me!

[vitabeata]

I am dumb and don't know how to comment on Tumblr directly, but it is maybe interesting for you to know that the woodcut for the title page of Hall’s Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke makes a special guest appearance in Stow's 1560 Chaucer, where it's used as a title page for the Canterbury Tales, the Romance of the Rose and (I think) Troilus and Criseyde.

[angevin2]

I don't think you can do direct comments on tumblr, so thanks for telling me that here! I didn't know that, and it's fascinating. I'll have to look it up on eebo now...