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  • Musical Interlude topic for December 2023

    12/01/2023 8:35:47 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 38 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | February 18, 2018 etcetera | CaliforniaMusic Dream et al
    Randy Meisner - Take It To The Limit | 4:19CaliforniaMusic Dream | 289 subscribers | 37,896 views | February 18, 2018
  • Buried Truth: Richard III and Toxic Males in The Lost King

    09/30/2023 6:13:51 PM PDT · by Twotone · 7 replies
    Steyn On-line ^ | September 30, 2023 | Rick McGinnis
    In Shakespeare's Richard III, the doomed young Prince, about to be sent to the Tower by Richard, his guardian, says that "Methinks the truth should live from age to age / As 'twere retailed to all posterity / Even to the general all-ending day." To which Richard, already planning his next move, mutters "So wise so young, they say, do never live long." No one denies the value of truth, not even Shakespeare's villainous Richard, and even as we struggle to find it in a world flooded with information and opinion. I can't tell you where you'll find the truth...
  • Et Tu, Brute?

    11/30/2023 10:22:41 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 9 replies
    Literary Devices ^ | ? | Lierary Devices
    Origin of Et Tu, Brute “Et Tu, Brute?” are perhaps the most popular three words ever written, uttered in literature, and then quoted in different contexts. This phrase also comes from the genius of Shakespeare. It occurs in his play, Julius Caesar, (Act-III, Scene-I, Lines, 77). Julius Caesar utters this phrase as his last words, addressing his close friend, Brutus, in the play. However, the history does not seem to support this, as it is a widely debated subject among historians and dramatists alike. Like so many other countless phrases, Shakespeare vouchsafed this phrase an everlasting life after using it...
  • Lest We Forget - Marcus Junius Brutus Shakespearean Words Against Tyranny - Who Else Do They Apply To?

    10/23/2023 4:57:39 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945
    https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 23rd October, American time | Ozguy1945
    Last year on this date, I paraphrased the words of Marcus Junius Brutus (and Gaius Epidius Marullus and Aussie bush poet Banjo Paterson) against tyranny to condemn the then Premier of Victoria, Australia, Daniel Michael Andrews (his full criminal name): “You are a block, a stone, a worse than senseless thing. You contaminate our future with mass debt And sell the vison splendid of our southern land For all the trash of Spring St cowards’ tyranny. I would rather be a dog who bays the moon than deny the simple agonising fact that your wide deep crimes against democracy are...
  • Musical Interlude topic for October 2023

    10/01/2023 7:29:14 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 29 replies
    YouTube etc ^ | May 5, 2022 etc | Jonathan Richman et al
    I'm a Little Dinosaur (Live) | 2:07Jonathan Richman - Topic | 3.63K subscribers | 951 views | May 5, 2022
  • Shakespeare Banned in Florida Schools

    07/16/2023 1:59:59 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 52 replies
    High school English teachers today face prison in Florida if they have their class perform a Shakespeare play in period dress. Every Shakespeare play at the Globe required cross-dressing.Women were not allowed on English stages 400 years ago, so women’s roles were played by cross-dressing men, whether at The Globe, the Blackfriars or, what was it called? O, yeah, the Roxy. This led to the delightful scene in “The Merchant of Venice” in which Portia, played by a cross-dressing man, criss-cross-dresses as a woman playing a man, to save his/her/its friend’s friend Antonio. Right: a man playing a woman playing...
  • Shakespeare on the Lawn brings “Macbeth” to Grounds ("Heterotopia"?)

    04/07/2023 9:01:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Cavalier Daily ^ | April 3, 2023 | Abigail Milne
    Director Holly Teti explores “heterotopia” in an outdoor staging of the Scottish playAudience members lounged on picnic blankets or folding chairs as the action unfolded against the University Chapel, framed by falling flower petals, twisting tree branches and a slow, golden sunset.“Double, double, toil and trouble…” the University’s student-run theatre organization Shakespeare on the Lawn mounted a powerful production of “Macbeth” in Pavilion Garden I this weekend, bringing one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies to Grounds for a three-afternoon run. Audience members lounged on picnic blankets or folding chairs as the action unfolded against the University Chapel, framed by...
  • Charlton Heston Freedom Icon Remembered On The Ides Of March For Playing Marc Antony

    03/15/2023 9:07:02 AM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 17 replies
    Today is the Ides Of March. Julius Caesar was assassinated on this day in 44 BC. In 1950 Charlton Heston gave a brilliant performance as Marc Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. If Brutus was an honourable man, then so is Joe Biden in his ice cream dreams. Some poeticised thoughts from Heston on freedom follow .....
  • The Ides of March—a Day of Murder That Forever Changed History

    03/14/2023 2:24:52 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    National Geographic ^ | MARCH 14, 2023 | Jennifer Vernon
    The Ides of March—a day of murder that forever changed history ​The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C still resonates as a day of infamy. Here's how the plot unfolded.Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marked March 15, or the Ides of March, as a day of infamy. It has fascinated scholars and writers ever since. For ancient Romans living before that event, however, an ides was merely one of several common calendar terms used to mark monthly lunar events. The ides simply marked the appearance of the full moon. But Romans would soon learn...
  • A Response to the Cynical Student. When are you ever gonna use this? Often.

    03/12/2023 8:44:13 AM PDT · by karpov · 52 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | March 10, 2023 | Art Carden
    You’ve heard the complaints: When am I ever gonna use this? How is this relevant to the real world? How is reading Shakespeare going to make me a better banker? I don’t run into this kind of thinking as frequently in the economics classroom, but I hear my students’ complaints about their other courses pretty regularly (and maybe professors in those courses hear students’ complaints about mine). Why, they wonder, are they expected to study art history? Or biology? Or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? Or Mesoamerican mythology? When are they ever gonna use this stuff? My answer?...
  • UK Counter-Terrorism Program Flags Shakespeare and ‘1984’ for ‘Encouraging Far-Right Sympathies’

    02/19/2023 5:50:12 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 32 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 19 Feb 2023 | Robert Spencer
    The UK’s Prevent program, which is supposed to be protecting the Sceptered Isle from terrorism, recently came under fire for treating actual Islamic terrorism as if it were a mental illness. But that doesn’t mean that Prevent has been wanting for terrorists: like its counterparts in the FBI, it has kept busy looking for “far-right extremists” and has now published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. It turns out that they’re people who read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 1984, and other great works of English literature. Gee, you’d almost get the idea that the Leftist culture warriors who...
  • Henry V was no English hero but a ‘power-hungry imperialist’: Globe's latest production of the Shakespeare play is set to show audiences the ‘devastating cost’ of the king’s ‘bombastic pursuit of power’

    11/03/2022 5:04:04 PM PDT · by C19fan · 32 replies
    UK Telegraph ^ | November 3, 2022 | Craig Simpson
    Henry V was a power-hungry imperialist rather than an English hero, the Globe’s latest production of the William Shakespeare play will suggest. Rather than lauding a “band of brothers” defeating the French against the odds at Agincourt, the new staging will show audiences the “devastating cost” of Henry’s “bombastic pursuit of power”.
  • Researchers Tested Whether Infinite Monkeys Could Write Shakespeare, With Actual Monkeys

    02/11/2022 11:36:21 AM PST · by Red Badger · 41 replies
    https://www.iflscience.com ^ | February 11, 2022 | James Felton
    There's something quite satisfying about the infinite monkey therorem, which goes like this: an infinite number of monkeys typing at an infinite number of typewriters would one day produce the entire works of Shakespeare, really showing that smug dead genius what's what. It's not just the works of Shakespeare, of course. Given enough time and monkeys, eventually, they'd write everything, including the above sentences. Please note that if you are typing up a monkey copy of this article from far in the future we'll sue. We're not above suing a monkey, Donkey Kong, and will see you in space court....
  • An honourable tradition: the history of the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations

    04/23/2021 5:06:55 PM PDT · by fhayek · 7 replies
    Stratford-upon-Avon Herald ^ | 4/23/21 | Gill Sutherland
    For the second year running the pandemic has halted Shakespeare’s Birthday Parade – although see below for details of the virtual one. While we are missing the fun, Sylvia Morris looks back on the history of the parade which has been an annual feature of the town since 1826. SHAKESPEARE’S Birthday has been celebrated in Stratford-upon-Avon for very nearly two centuries. Over this period there have been many changes, but the floral procession from the centre of the town to Holy Trinity Church remains their central feature. It is headed by students from King Edward VI School because the school...
  • Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616

    04/23/2016 1:18:02 PM PDT · by sodpoodle · 31 replies
    self | 4/23/2016 | self
    William Shakespeare died three days before his 52nd birthday. He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in "perfect health". Wondering if this notable date has been reported in the MSM, seeing as how they are all students of literature/s
  • Shakespeare First Folio from Catholic College to Be Exhibited in London

    02/24/2015 4:31:26 AM PST · by marshmallow · 5 replies
    The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 2/24/15 | David V Barret
    A recently discovered First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays will be exhibited next year at the Globe TheatreA recently discovered First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays will be exhibited next year – the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – at the Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank. The First Folio was discovered last November in a library in the small town of Saint-Omer, near Calais in northern France. A librarian came across it when he was preparing an exhibition of links between the area and England. During the Elizabethan and Jacobean period many English Catholics escaped to France, and a college at...
  • A Brief History of Catholic Claims to Shakespeare

    11/27/2014 7:27:57 PM PST · by annalex · 36 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | NOV 26 2014, 4:35 PM ET | ADAM CHANDLER
    On Tuesday, word spread about the discovery of a "first folio" of the works of William Shakespeare [...]. It was uncovered by some industrious librarians in St.-Omer, France, near the city of Calais, at a public library that already boasts possession of an even rarer Gutenberg Bible. The folio, as the BBC noted, "collects 36 of Shakespeare's 38 known plays for the first time, and was originally printed in 1623, seven years after the playwright's death." As Jennifer Schuessler reported, the folio's unearthing brings the total number of known Shakespeare compendiums to 233. [...] ...over the past century-and-a-half, based on...
  • Is This Really the Only Portrait of William Shakespeare Made in His Lifetime?

    11/22/2022 3:10:51 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 71 replies
    The Art Newspaper ^ | 22 November 2022 | Ivan Macquisten
    Unveiling of an early 17th-century painting has caused a stir—but what does the evidence say?The unveiling and proposed £10m sale of an early 17th century portrait, reputedly of William Shakespeare, has caused a stir. The attribution is being debated, but what does the evidence show? The inner frame of the 20 x 18 inch portrait includes the title Shakespeare, but this is an 18th- or19th-century addition, when the painting was relined. The figure portrayed is a bearded, balding man in shirt and doublet, with the top left and right of the canvas helpfully inscribed 1608 and AE (aged) 44...
  • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre academic says Elizabeth I may have been non-binary in essay calling Virgin Queen 'them' after row over transgender Joan Of Arc play

    08/13/2022 6:23:41 AM PDT · by C19fan · 39 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | August 13, 2022 | Oliver Price
    An academic writing for the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has argued Queen Elizabeth I may have been non-binary in an essay. In an essay on the Globe's website, trans-awareness trainer Dr Kit Heyam referred to the Virgin Queen with 'they/them' pronouns, saying: 'Elizabeth I... described themself regularly in speeches as "king", "queen" and "prince".'
  • 'Joan of Arc is a female cultural icon': Backlash grows against Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for new play depicting Maid of Orleans as non-binary character with 'they' and 'them' pronouns

    08/12/2022 6:25:21 AM PDT · by C19fan · 42 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | August 12, 2022 | Dan Sales
    A new play about Joan of Arc, where she is non-binary and uses the pronouns 'they' and 'them', was today branded offensive and sexist by feminists. It is billed as 'questioning the gender binary' but academics have called it 'a violation of history'.