The Birds of Shakespeare

The Birds of Shakespeare: Woodcock:

Ok, anybody who says there’s nothing left about Shakespeare to write about needs to check out this blog. The Birds of Shakespeare? I love it.

I particularly like this page, the woodcock, because I regularly use Polonius’ “springes to catch woodcocks!” as an example of Shakespearean script that sounds particularly alien but is really pretty straightforward once you learn a little vocabulary.

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Sir Ian and the Rose Theatre

The Rose Theatre remains were discovered in 1989. This is where Shakespeare was thought to have learned his craft. Sir Ian McKellen (pick your movie — he was Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, but also Magneto in X-Men) is one of the major supporters saying that he does not want it restored. “The point,” he says, “is that these remains are the genuine thing. We don’t want to start covering them up.”

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HOPKINS TO QUIT AFTER SHAKESPEARE ROLE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – HOPKINS TO QUIT AFTER SHAKESPEARE ROLE:

Wow, here’s a newsflash — Sir Anthony Hopkins says that he wants to do one more King Lear, and then “call it quits.” He’s done Lear before, and didn’t like it, so he wants to have another go in a movie – preferably done “the old traditional thing of setting it in Denmark or a craggy area of Britain, shooting it near the coasts in winter, set it in the dark ages.”

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The play wot Shakespeare wrote

FT.com / Arts & Weekend – The play wot Shakespeare wrote: How often do you hear “Sir Thomas More” mentioned, let alone staged? Yes, I’m not talking about the man, but about the play about the man. A play that Shakespeare afficionados may already know what co-written by our favorite man in Stratford. Although this play may never have been staged in Shakespeare’s time, it is the only surviving play to feature Shakespeare’s own authenticated handwriting.

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