I am mildly upset that no one told me about this book:

Shakespeare's Ghost - Mary Hoffman
http://www.greystonespress.com/books/shakespeares-ghost/

From A Midsummer Night’s Dream onwards, Shakespeare’s plays are often peopled by fairies, witches, ghosts and ( Read more... )

In case you want to think about something else today - this is the first thing I've heard about this show that sounds worthwhile:

‘Will’: Jasmin Savoy Brown Joins TNT Drama About Young William Shakespearehttp://bit.ly/2fBrPMZRead more... )

More specifically, I am puzzled by its removable nature.


( Read more... )

So…the TNT show Will (which has apparently been picked up for ten episodes) has released a trailer ( 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... )

Okay, see, now this is what I mean when I say that PBS is terrible at letting me know about programs I'd want to watch - especially if they involve Shakespeare. I happened upon this on the website while I was looking for something on the PBS News Hour page:

Shakespeare's Tomb ( Read more... )

Siiiiigh…

Every time I read anything about Emma Rice in the Guardian, it worries me still further:

Rice’s appointment at the Globe, succeeding Dominic Dromgoole, raised eyebrows in some quarters, especially since she cheerfully admits to not having read many of his plays. Her job, she said recently, was to allow artists to tell great stories in ( Read more... )

Look, Sacha Dhawan filmed one of the Shakespeare Solos videos, and he's being such a delightful cad:http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2016/feb/29/sacha-dhawan-shakespeare-parolles-are-you-

As part of the whole #shakespeare400 thing, the Guardian is posting videos of various actors (among them Adrian Lester, Roger Allam, and Eileen Atkins) performing Shakespeare speeches, starting on February 1 ( Read more... )

Young William Shakespeare TNT Pilot ‘Will’ Casts Lead, Shekhar Kapur To Direct

http://bit.ly/1OEq65M

(Deadline is marked as spam on LJ, so I hope this will get around it)

*runs in singing 'I hate everything about this paragraph, la la la'*

Elizabeth helmer Shekhar Kapur is directing the pilot ( Read more... )