Uncle Bill Shakespeare...Alive and Well!

Meanderer said:
throwing the winning touchdown pass as time ran off the clock in Notre Dame's 1935 victory
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I remember reading that this was called something like the Holy Trinity play as the QB was Catholic, Shakespeare was Protestant, and the receiver of the TD was Jewish.

While his pro career was short (maybe one year) folks in NYC still spoke of him up to the 1960s. His family members were well respected pillars of the community.
 

Speech: “The raven himself is hoarse”​

By William Shakespeare

(from Macbeth, spoken by Lady Macbeth)

The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold!"

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("The notion that the ‘Raven’, a harbinger of death has croaked himself hoarse suggests that Duncan’s death is foretold. The word ‘croak’ itself is also euphemism for death – therefore Duncan is going to be doubly dead…")
 
Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, “Titus Andronicus”
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"Roman general Titus Andronicus returns victorious from 10 years of war, his archnemesis Tamora Queen of the Goths in tow and in chains. But when Rome’s rash and impetuous new Emperor decides not only to free her, but to marry her and make her his queen, she embarks upon a remorseless course of revenge. As she and Titus engage in an escalating cycle of violence and vengeance, the body count rises, and Rome threatens to fall".
 

Shakespeare The Time Traveler​

"What would Shakespeare make of our modern world? If he were suddenly to appear in London as a time traveler to the future he would find himself in the middle of a street crowd. The London of his time had a population of about twenty thousand but here he would see that number of people in one street. And in all sorts of ways they would look different".
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"He would wonder what this was, but being Shakespeare, and knowing he was in the future, he would soon work out that it was a building. But nevertheless, it would stretch his imagination as to its use". (Read More)
 
Today is Veterans Day, November, 11, 2021

Shakespeare and War: Stephan Wolfert
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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 81

"In his one-man show Cry Havoc! actor Stephan Wolfert, a US Army veteran, draws together lines in Shakespeare’s plays spoken by soldiers and former soldiers—including Macbeth, Othello, and Richard III".

"He puts those words to the task of explaining the toll that soldiering and war can take on the psyches of the men and women who volunteer for military duty. Wolfert also runs free weekly veterans-only acting classes aimed at helping them readjust to life as civilians".

"He is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev". (Read Transcript or Audio)
 
E.L. Doctorow reads an excerpt of Herman Melville's essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses" at the Delacorte Theater as part of Public Forum's "Shakespeare in America".
 

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Read about Shakespeare’s retirement and final years.​

"After a glittering career as an actor, playwright and theatre proprietor in London, Shakespeare retired in 1611 at the age of 47 to his home town of Stratford, where his wife and family had remained during all the years in which he had lived and worked in London".

"Shakespeare’s retirement was not a matter of sitting around in slippers and letting the world pass him by: he was active in monitoring his financial interests, took an interest in borough affairs, and continued to work with younger playwrights, collaborating with them on plays, and visiting London frequently. But now, living in Stratford, he was able to enjoy the company of his family and childhood friends. By this time, too, he had a granddaughter, Elizabeth, and was able to give time to her". (Read More)
 
Still Dreaming: Shakespeare with Seniors
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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 102​

"In 2011, Ben Steinfeld and Noah Brody, co-directors of New York’s Fiasco Theater, were invited to an assisted living facility and nursing home just outside New York City to work with its residents on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Because it was the Lillian Booth Actors Home—a facility filled with retired singers, actors, dancers and musicians—Ben and Noah expected to work with a group of seasoned Broadway professionals".

While there were some, the cast they finally assembled was largely anything but. Ben and Noah were invited on this adventure by filmmakers Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson, who turned the process into a documentary called Still Dreaming. We talk about the experience with Ben Steinfeld and Hank Rogerson".

"Hank and Ben are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev". AUDIO LINK & Transcript of Interview
 
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