How about Shatner doing Julius Caesar?

Everybody loved that video of the Beatles doing Pyramus and Thisbe. How about William Shatner doing a pretty funky rendition of Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…” speech? Halfway through it turns into a rap video. His take on “Let slip the dogs of war” is nothing compared to how his arch enemy General Chang did it in Star Trek VI.

Weird. It’s from Free Enterprise, which I’ve never seen.

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John Keats

I like this article on “Enjoying La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, by John Keats. It’s here because of the nice reference to Shakespeare:

Keats praised Shakespeare’s “negative capability”. If I understand the passage correctly, he’s referring to the lack of unambiguous messages in Shakespeare’s works. Instead of preaching or moralizing, Shakespeare’s works mirror life, and let the reader take away his or her own conclusions.
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Sonnet 65 : Video!

I’m still looking for more examples of the sonnets put to music. But since I’m trolling through the videos this morning, here is the link to a short film somebody made of Sonnet 65. Interesting. Sometimes the sounds effects (the running water in particular) were too loud for the narration, and in general it was read rather fast. But still, a cool idea. I’d be happy to find a collection of such things.

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