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You can read all the books about Shakespeare you’d like, take tons of classes, but on top of all that the way to be an expert on the Bard is … Continue Reading ⇒
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WOTD: Ate
No, not the past tense of “eat”. That would be a silly thing to write about. Not that food doesn’t deserve to be written about, but I think you all … Continue Reading ⇒
Review: Thinking Shakespeare
by Barry Edelstein I picked up this book one day at a bookstore while browsing the Shakespeare section, like I do, and took a quick look inside. Knowing nothing about … Continue Reading ⇒
WOTD: Betide
I was trying for a while to make a clever quip in iambic pentameter using the following word, but it’s rather late (or very early) and nothing betid. Please accept … Continue Reading ⇒
Love Language
If there were a two word answer to the question “what do I have to do to be a great classical actor?” My answer would be LOVE LANGUAGE. Of course … Continue Reading ⇒
WOTD: Haply
Not Happily. Haply! haply (adv.) IPA pronunciation: /’hæp.li/ perhaps, maybe, by chance, with luck CORDELIA …Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry … Continue Reading ⇒
Review: All The Words on Stage
by Louis Scheeder and Shane Ann Younts How many times have you been reading one of Shakespeare’s plays and stumbled across a word and wondered, “How the fardel do I … Continue Reading ⇒
WOTD: Convive
Tis the season to convive! convive (v.) IPA: To feast together, enjoy a banquet AGAMEMNON. First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There in the full convive … Continue Reading ⇒
Review: Shakespeare.Nowheres.Com
A very simple website, and a quick way to get to Shakespeare’s plays. They have a list up of when you click on “works” of the plays organized like in … Continue Reading ⇒
Review: Shakespeare’s Words
by David Crystal & Ben Crystal This is a book that I almost can’t live without. It is essentially a dictionary of most of the words that Shakespeare uses in … Continue Reading ⇒