In yet more news of Shakespearean retellings, Random House is now set to publish a series of the Bard's plays rewritten as prose. The RH imprint Hogarth has commissioned authors Anne Tyler and Jeanette Winterson as the first to release novels in the forthcoming "Hogarth Shakespeare Project." The two will be rewriting The Taming of the…
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A Shakespearean Mash Up
This summer the Los Angeles based Troubadour Theater Company is reprising its role as masters of the Shakespearean mash up. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream. You may have guessed it, though you might not believe it: one theater company has poured all the funk, bellbottoms, and embarrassing dance…
Twenty-First Century Foxes? Historical Figures Get Make Overs
The good folks over at Laughing Squid decided to give iconic historical figures updates to some pretty dated looks. C'mon, once every four hundred years or so...everyone deserves a spa day! William Shakespeare in skinny jeans? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Lord Chamberlain's Barista? Noooooooooooooo! Is that Elizabeth the First, the Virgin Queen, or is that my Statistics professor?…
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“Methinks thou art a general offense”: Cats Deliver Shakespearean Insults
Because what goes better with a haughty insult than a haughty, haughty feline? Henry IV, Part Two Henry IV, Part One The Two Gentlemen of Verona All's Well That Ends Well Henry IV, Part One King Lear King Lear Measure for Measure As You Like It Aaaaand the winner is... Henry IV, Part One Shakes…
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A Very Bad Bard, Indeed
William Shakespeare---playwright, poet... ruthless tax evader? So says a new research paper to be presented next month by academics Dr Jayne Archer, Professor Richard Marggraf Turley and Professor Howard Thomas of Aberystwyth University, Wales. These three have exposed the Bard for offenses he committed more than four hundred years ago---those of hoarding grain during a food shortage…
Uncovering the Real Richard III: Why It Matters
Fellow Shakespeare nerds! Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this finding of one twisted old skeleton at the bottom of a car park. That's right, the long lost body of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, is now found! For a while now, archaeologists determined to uncover Richard III's body,…
Shakespeare? It’s in the DNA
Are you old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy? Or maybe when disks were 3" wide? (Yes, kids, that's what that little icon to "save" your work to your hard drives and flash drives represents, a hard little disk that held approximately two Word files or a half a dozen pictures (but not at…
Shakespeare and Fry and Bly, Oh My! : Literary Quotes On Storms
At eNotes, we want all of our followers and customers to know we are thinking about you in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and wish everyone a speedy and safe recovery. Hopefully, you have power and can read this... but if your battery is running low, I hear there is a Starbucks on Broadway where…
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