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Raúl Juliá as Edmund, in King Lear, Shakespeare in the Park, NYC 1974

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I've been listening to an album a day from the book _1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die_, and I've been getting more Shakespeare allusions than usual:

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Still one of the funniest plays I’ve ever read and a directing dream I still hold.

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Now at Bardfilm: Shakespeare Goof in Gilmore Girls. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2025/02/shak...

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note: Angela's Ashes. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2025/02/book...

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https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2025/02/titanias-pov.html well hello there!

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Hey, hey! Did you hear that they fixed the rodent problem in the kitchen in Elsinore? Yup. Got rid of them entirely. Not a mouse stirring.

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Now at Bardfilm: John Barrymore Quotes Hamlet in Svengali bardfilm.blogspot.com/2025/01/john...

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note: Flibbertigibbety Words. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2025/01/book...

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https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2025/01/review-1935-midsummer.html I think most of the budget must have gone toward getting a real unicorn

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www.shakespearegeek.com/2025/01/macb...

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https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2025/01/review-denzel-washington-as-macbeth.html In case I'm not the last person to actually watch this one!

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This is incredible

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My daughter and I are speaking for an hour tomorrow on Macbeth and how we came to publish our "personal" edition. It's equal parts humbling, thrilling, and terrifying. How the heck did I get here??

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https://www.shakespearegeek.com/2025/01/wicked-shakespeare-2.html

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A Western Scene.

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Now at Bardfilm: The "10 Classics in 10 Minutes" One-Minute Version of Romeo and Juliet. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

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Which Stage Direction from Shakespeare Will Best Describe 2025? Happy New Year!

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Now at Barfilm: Book Note: Incidental Shakespeare in Two Children's Books about Dictionaries. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/book...

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Now at Bardfilm: Romeo and Juliet in (or, really, after) The Office (BBC). bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/rome...

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note (Well, Short Story Note, Really): "Gertrude Talks Back." bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/book...

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Now at Bardfilm: Cracking the Shakespeare Code: A Norwegian Shakespeare Conspiracy. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/crac...

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Recognizing that the slang is somewhat outdated, which of these is better? Othello: Handkerchiefs or it didn't happen. or Othello: Oracular proof or it didn't happen.

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note: The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 by Zbigniew Herbert. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/book...

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How are Jane Austin and Noël Coward alike? They both celebrate their birthday today! How are they unalike? Well, one wrote the lyrics to the song that begins Kenneth Branagh's _A Midwinter's Tale_ and the other didn't. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/11/noel...

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Just got a note from a college professor stating that she's made my book a required text for her next two classes and asking if I can come speak. I'M SORRY WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

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"You must enjoy the long holidays ... " #HigherEd #school #teaching #PhdChat #science #medicine #health #research #AcWri #PeerReview #university #humour

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Now at Bardfilm: A Fragment of the St. Crispin's Day Speech in an Episode of Phineas and Ferb. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-fr...

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note: Equivocation: A Play by Bill Cain. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/book...

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Interested in proposing a seminar, workshop, or panel for #Shax2026? Be sure to apply before February 15! More information is available online at buff.ly/3F488Kr

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At Prospero's at Christmas, they always sing "I Saw Three Ships (and Sank Them All)." #ShakespeareChristmasCarols

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Good King Henry Five walked out After spoke the chorus. When the war was done, he said, "God was fighting for us." #ShakespeareChristmasCarols

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We Three Kings (Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V). #ShakespeareChristmasCarols

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Is it time yet for #ShakespeareChristmasCarols ?? Falstaff The Snowman Fortinbras is Coming to Town O Little Town of Elsinore Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Out of Tune and Harsh The Twelfth Night of Christmas Deck Yourself With Boughs of Birnam Chiron Roasting on an Open Fire

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Now at Bardfilm: Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Big Dweeb Energy. #FoxTrotFriday bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/shak...

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Now at Bardfilm: The Brain (of Pinky and the Brain) Reveals that he has Directed Shakespeare. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

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Now at Bardfilm: Book Note: William Shakespeare: Complete Works—The Royal Shakespeare Company Edition. bardfilm.blogspot.com/2024/12/book...

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On November 26, 1942, Casablanca premiered. It truly was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. . . . Yet we're still waiting for the sequel.

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I'm just taking a moment to shout "Break a leg!" into the universe for my daughter, who's off to speak at her first conference! "From Eve to Evil: Tracing the Roots of Misogyny in Literature’s Powerful Women"

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I recently discovered that Sylvia Plath wrote some picture books for children. Her other children's books didn't sell so well. Particularly poor in sales was The Oven Book.

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86 years ago this week, The Boys From Syracuse premiered on Broadway. #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday

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Hey, hey! What's the difference between Ophelia in Hamlet and Isabella in Measure for Measure? One is told "Get thee to a nunnery"; the other is told "Get thee FROM a nunnery!"

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We all came to Bluesky and loved it because it wasn't full of political nonsense. With the recent explosion in membership how soon before that goes away?

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You're welcome. But did you ever play "The Paperclip Game" (a.k.a. "Bigger and Better" or "The Trade-Up Game"? I'm trying to see if I can get all the way to a First Folio starting with this. In related news, does anyone want to trade a Q3 King Lear for a Q2?

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Shakespearean Haiku: A wandering ghost My dead father cries “Uncle!” I must have revenge.

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