William Shakespeare may be famous for penning heterosexual love stories like Romeo and Juliet, but a newly discovered miniature portrait with a hidden secret has historians believing the man behind the prose may have had a secret gay lover. A previously unknown portrait of Shakespeare’s first patron, Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton, has historians and Shakespeare scholars thinking it may be proof that the British playwright had a secret gay affair. In the miniature, Wriothe...| Advocate.com
ZERO STARS/****starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwynscreenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s noveldirected by Chloé Zhao by Walter Chaw There is so much acting in Hamnet. So much. The most acting. A host, a bounty, a feast. Remember Denzel Washington’s Fences? It makes Fences seem subtle and reserved–even dignified, if you can imagine, which I could not. Hamnet is heavy with acting in the sense that brood cows are heavy with young...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
William Shakespeare may be famous for penning heterosexual love stories like Romeo and Juliet, but a newly discovered miniature portrait with a hidden secret has historians believing the man behind the prose may have had a secret gay lover. A previously unknown portrait of Shakespeare’s first patron, Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton, has historians and Shakespeare scholars thinking it may be proof that the British playwright had a secret gay affair. In the miniature, Wriothe...| Gay Pride - LGBT and Queer Voices
This month's productions at theaters around Dallas offer lots of things you don't often see onstage: Puppets. A black-and-white movie brought to life. The singing voice of Jasmine and Mulan. Shakespeare in Spanish. More puppets. The lineup is anything but boring! Here are 11 top shows appearing in Dallas theaters in September, listed in order of start date: Opera Box Ochre House Theater, September 3-20 A poor Southern family, caught up in the addiction of the opioid crisis and the collapse of...| CultureMap Dallas
PODCAST The fascinating story of the Public Theater and Joseph Papp’s efforts to bring Shakespeare to the people. (Episode #88) What started in a tiny East Village basement grew to become one of New York’s most enduring summer traditions, Shakespeare in the Park, featuring world class actors performing the greatest dramas of the age. But… Read More The post Joseph Papp vs. Robert Moses: The saga of Shakespeare in the Park appeared first on The Bowery Boys: New York City History.| The Bowery Boys: New York City History
I love collecting stationery. And recently I’ve also begun collecting poems about stationery. Poets not infrequently mention the instruments of their trade – Byron’s praise of his “grey goose-quill” springs to mind, or Sidney “biting [his] truant pen” – but I’ve tried to concentrate my collation on poems that have stationery items as their central…| Lady Writer
I wanted to try printing a new Shakespeare cookie cutter with my new 3D printer, to see if the better print quality would result in a better cutter. The CAD tool I use, OpenSCAD with the BOSL2 library, has been updated since I designed the cookie cutter, and the old code no longer ran, due […]| Gas station without pumps
Here's from Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2. But two months dead!--nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was to this, Hyperion to a satyr; I think I understand the meaning of these sentences.| English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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The Mousetrap, or Prince Hamlet wrote a dumb play and now we have to do it…| Thinking Theater NYC
As You Will Created by Conor Mullen, David Brummer, and George Hider August 3-16, 2025 As You Wish It...or The Bride Princess....or What You...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
My family and I went to Ashland, Oregon July 15–20 to see 7 plays in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. There were 9 plays in this year’s season, but seven was as many as anyone could see on on…| Gas station without pumps
Assistant News Editor Kylie Sokoloff reflects on choosing discipline over devotion, and the falsehood of change born from shame.| The Temple News
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Photo courtesy of Barefoot Shakespeare Company Popularly referred to as “Shakespeare for Sports Fans,” the UNREHEARSED! series is a great op...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
Hello, I love finding a word whose meaning has changed dramatically over its lifetime. Some even achieve the total opposite of their original meaning. Penthouse doesn’t quite fall into that category, but it’s close. The word entered English as pentis around 1300 to describe a shed or sloping roof which jutted out from the main […]| Wordfoolery
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say,...| Ad Fontes
I’ll be auditioning for the short-play festival 8 tens @8 this weekend. The festival has been running for a while (the first one was in January 1996), and they claim to be “The longest running short play festival in the world!”, though I don’t know what evidence they have for the claim (other than that […]| Gas station without pumps
Santa Cruz Shakespeare finishes their summer season tonight (they still have Glass Menagerie in the fall and Christmas Carol in December), so I’ll post my reviews now. Let’s start with the “Fringe” productions: two staged readings and the intern’s play. The first staged reading was Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. They selected the play to commemorate […]| Gas station without pumps
William Shakespeare is one of the most influential writers in history, and his work has been adapted and reinterpreted in countless ways. Novels inspired by ... Read more| No Sweat Shakespeare
Review: Shakespeare’s Tragic Art by Rhodri Lewis Lewis writes: ‘What do you do after writing something like Hamlet?’ And indeed, he suggests an answer to ... Read more| No Sweat Shakespeare
As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the popularity of its author is stronger than it has ever been, ... Read more| No Sweat Shakespeare
In recent months, there has been a trend in Florida to restrict the teaching of Shakespeare in high schools. This is one of the casualties ... Read more| No Sweat Shakespeare
Violence? What violence? Titus Andronicus was hugely popular when it came out in 1594. Since then, until the twenty-first century, it was largely ignored, probably ... Read more| No Sweat Shakespeare
A review of the Globe Theatre's 2022 Henry V production. This is a very intelligent working of Shakespeare’s text. That’s the first thing to say, and the second is that| No Sweat Shakespeare
Cervantes played with the tradition of chivalric romances, just as Shakespeare echoed (on at least one occasion, in Hamlet, mockingly) the Latin plays of Seneca. These authors reveal a paradoxical pattern in literature so consistent as to approach the status of a law: We go forward by looking back. The new literary experience is founded in literary memory. The post The Forest Fires of Amnesia appeared first on Slant Books.| Slant Books
The Bard's ideas—not today's—animate this production starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal.| Modern Age
Act II, Scene 1: Ophelia tells her father about how a half-naked, deranged-looking Hamlet barged into her room, physically assaulted her, and ran off into the night. Since we never hear anything about Polonius’ wife, we must assume that the strain of raising two children on his own has rendered him non compos mentis, as this leads him to believe that Hamlet is in love and not a booze-shattered date rapist. He decides to tell the King and Queen about it, because Ophelia’s personal life...| maya.land
Othello’s love for Desdemona is intense and exhilarating to him, but it’s fragile, for it has come at a cost. This warrior, an older man, different in race and background, celebrates his passion for his beloved even as he wonders whether the sacrifice of his freedom was worth it. Has he given up too much, lost more than he gained? That’s Othello’s fear, the vulnerability Iago exploits.| Slant Books
Ao longo dos séculos, a literatura moldou sociedades e segue influenciando o pensamento contemporâneo. Conheça livros que mudaram a história e permanecem essenciais.| La Parola
As we work towards the end of the Horus Heresy project, I have a couple larger essays underway in the background. This wasn’t meant to be one of them; I was doing some research over the weeke…| Death is a Whale
Not many lawyers, if any at all, have heard in their law schools anything about a man called Jack Cade. Perhaps rightly so, he was... The post Kill All the Lawyers appeared first on Disenz.| Disenz
Today I recorded two monologues and added them to my playlist: https://tinyurl.com/Kevin-Karplus-monologues. Both were monologues that I learned for the Shakespeare course from Bill Peters at the Actors’ Theatre that just ended last week, though only one is from Shakespeare. One is the first sentence of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which I provided as an example of […]| Gas station without pumps
I opened this bottle of ginger wine very quickly after rejecting a bottle of Apple & Strawberry as being simply unpleasant. This wine, though, is excellent. Perhaps it is just that little bit sweet, but the ginger flavour fights through that. It would be a fabulous base for a whisky mac.| Ben's Adventures in Wine Making
Next week brings the beginning of the fourth and final Shakespeare play to be presented in our Castleyard. BMH Productions will perform two Shakespeare plays in the space of one, with short versions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both classics! We met with Edward Blagrove and Ashley Harvey, producers at BMH Productions to […] The post Presenting BMH Productions… appeared first on Oxford Castle & Prison.| Oxford Castle & Prison
Oxford Shakespeare Festival has returned to our castleyard, with four fantastic productions presented over eight weeks throughout the summer. Michael Speight, Director of Oxford Shakespeare Festival, explains to us how the festival came about and what we have to look forward to from his other role as Director at Siege Theatre, which will bring The […] The post Presenting Siege Theatre… appeared first on Oxford Castle & Prison.| Oxford Castle & Prison
Oxford Shakespeare Festival has returned to our castleyard, with four fantastic productions presented over 8 weeks throughout the summer. Each play is produced and directed by a different local theatre company. Alex Nicholls who runs Tomahawk Theatre sat down with us to discuss his production of Much Ado About Nothing which is now on until […] The post Presenting Tomahawk Theatre appeared first on Oxford Castle & Prison.| Oxford Castle & Prison
Grand Theft Hamlet follows two actors who out on a production of Hamet in GTA Online after Covid leaves them out of work.| Big Issue
I picked Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 mostly because, at the time, the sonnet’s edgy tone about the drive to tamp down the earthly passions–—something I was personally dealing with at the time!-—cohered to my own struggles. I scrawled the poem in cursive on notebook paper over and over, trying to memorize it, and in memorizing it, it became a part of me—a part of my body, really| Slant Books
My friend and colleague Robert Garis died in January 2001, age 75. Bob was a superb close reader, maybe the best I have ever met, vivid and exact in his responses to literature, and to film, ballet, and music as well. I admired Bob tremendously, his seriousness and intensity, and his joy too, his pleasure in being in the company of exceptional authors, composers, directors, and choreographers.| Slant Books
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew can be considered the original rom-com, but one that has dismayed a majority of audience members and readers who bring along their own ill-considered assumptions and fail to look beneath stereotypes, like so many characters in the play itself. In the set-up, a drunkard is tricked into thinking he’s…| Michael Delahoyde
UNREHEARSED: R&J! , will be presented by Barefoot Shakespeare Company and Needs More Work Productions, at Summit Rock in Central Park. Popul...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
Fight Over the Breeches; Gift of Louis E. Shecter, 1972, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
Mei Melenovsky as Hamlet and Michael Katz. Photo courtesy of FFP Frank Farrell Productions (FFP) will present a one-hour version of William...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
Gnaeus Maricus Coriolanus is a hero of the early Roman Republic. So why is it that nothing was written about him until 200 years after he died?| Historic Mysteries
Meet the woman who sells dresses by day and reads the local ATV news by night in 1956 The post Girl behind the news appeared first on THIS IS ATV NETWORK from Transdiffusion.| THIS IS ATV NETWORK from Transdiffusion
Confira as influências da Itália nas histórias de William Shakespeare, como as cidades de Verona e Pádua, palco de grandes obras do autor.| La Parola
My family (that is, my wife, our son, and I) went to Ashland to see Oregon Shakespeare Festival this week, for the third year in a row. We chose the end of July to be able to see as many plays as p…| Gas station without pumps
Continuing my updates from Acting update for May 2024, I’m now finished with Spring Semester at Cabrillo College. Here are the things new since the last update: I did the staged reading of a…| Gas station without pumps
Continuing my updates from Acting update for January 2024, I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve been doing in my new acting hobby. I finished the run of 12 performances of …| Gas station without pumps
Continuing my updates from Acting update for November 2023, I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve been doing in my new acting hobby. I finished the Cabrillo Intro to Acting c…| Gas station without pumps
For my intro-to-acting course, our final exam period required us to reflect on what we had learned (in writing ahead of time), then present snippets from that in person (in-person attendance for th…| Gas station without pumps
Continuing my updates from Acting update for October 2023, which was about a month ago, I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve been doing in my new acting hobby. I’ve be…| Gas station without pumps
In More busy theater weeks, I posted about my theater activity for 2013 July 26–August 21, and in Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2024 season I posted about next year’s Santa Cruz Shakespeare season. …| Gas station without pumps
Yesterday, in More busy theater weeks, I mentioned that I would be going to the Grove again tonight to find out what next year’s season will be. This is very early for the season announcemen…| Gas station without pumps
In Busy weeks for theater, I posted about theater for 2013 July 13 through 23, which included a trip to Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This post is mostly about August 1 through 19, which included a…| Gas station without pumps
Una gamberrada es transformar la tragedia de Otelo en un vodevil más cercano al cabaret que a Sófocles. Porque el más grande de los trágicos contemporáneos es también el más grande de los cómicos modernos.| Libertad Digital - Cultura
It’s a pleasure to reread and analyze this first quatrain of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, looking at it and listening to it, the puzzles it generates and the questions it raises, and I am tempted to proceed to the rest of the sonnet. But in this post, I have another purpose, and that’s to quote and pay tribute to William Empson’s interpretation of the line about “choirs” in chapter 1 of his 1930 masterpiece of literary criticism, Seven Types of Ambiguity.| Slant Books
A Little Less Than Kind Written by Gracie Rittenberg Directed by Slaney Rose Jordan Presented by Bluebird Theatre Company at UNDER St. Mark...| www.thinkingtheaternyc.com
Monsters have been known to take many forms, from seductive succubi and skulking bogeymen to blood-slurping chupacabras and giant krakens. Among the most unusual and horrific of such creatures has to be the cockatrice. Associated with demonic forces and deadly powers, this small, peculiar beast stirred panic in the hearts of late-medieval Europeans. Part-bird and […]| A-wing and A-way
Mood in Literature Have you ever started reading a horror novel and felt creeped out? Every time we read, we feel certain emotions connected to the kind of story it is. This is known as| Cool Kid Facts
Antithesis Do you remember the famous line that Neil Armstrong spoke when he landed on the moon and achieved the great feat? His words ‘that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’| Cool Kid Facts
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet “I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Er…| The Nef Chronicles
“A little warm for a fire, don’t you think?” “It’s for inspiration, not warmth.” “Well, it’ll burn better if you stop poking it.” “I’m tickling it. To amuse it. You know, Shakespeare? Oh, to amuse …| Love, Blood & Rhetoric
Anne Hathaway was born in England in 1556. She was married to William Shakespeare in 1582, and the couple had three children together. Anne Hathaway is| English History