Uncle Bill Shakespeare...Alive and Well!
- Thread starter Meanderer
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RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
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- Connecticut, USA
The "evidence" is very flimsy and reeks of wishful thinking, IMO. It makes for a spectacular headline.
RadishRose
Forever in Our Hearts
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
I don't believe it either...hahaha
SONNET 57
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.
“Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare Bridge?” In L.A., That’s Where.
Shakespeare Bridge, 3800 block Franklin Avenue, Los Feliz area.
Exploring the Shakespeare Bridge
Shakespeare Bridge, 3800 block Franklin Avenue, Los Feliz area.
Exploring the Shakespeare Bridge
Vertigo Theatre keeps spirit of Shakespeare alive with Julius Caesar
"Understanding Shakespearean plays can require exceptional effort and recreating these remarkable stories on stage requires unique talent. Luckily, the reenactment of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by The Shakespeare Company at Vertigo Theatre was up to the task. Director Ron Jenkins produced a powerful interpretation of the tragedy with intense and thrilling atmosphere." (Read More)
"Understanding Shakespearean plays can require exceptional effort and recreating these remarkable stories on stage requires unique talent. Luckily, the reenactment of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by The Shakespeare Company at Vertigo Theatre was up to the task. Director Ron Jenkins produced a powerful interpretation of the tragedy with intense and thrilling atmosphere." (Read More)
"Off The Leash presents Shakespeare on Trial - On tour! This video clips shows just a sampling of the terrific performances by Jeremy Webb and Simon Henderson from the play. "
"Synopsis: Writer Bill Shakespeare encounters four of his own most famous characters: MacBeth, Iago, Hamlet and Juliet up-close, personal and ticked-off, in a new one-man play that explores the Bard's accessibility and relevance in the world today. "
"Shakespeare has to defend his own writing as the four fictional characters challenge the author to write in a modern way, arguing that no-one understands them anymore. "
Shakespeare On Trial - By Jeremy Webb
"Synopsis: Writer Bill Shakespeare encounters four of his own most famous characters: MacBeth, Iago, Hamlet and Juliet up-close, personal and ticked-off, in a new one-man play that explores the Bard's accessibility and relevance in the world today. "
"Shakespeare has to defend his own writing as the four fictional characters challenge the author to write in a modern way, arguing that no-one understands them anymore. "
Shakespeare On Trial - By Jeremy Webb
Shakespearean Superbowl Commercials.....? That is the question!
"In The Tempest, Shakespeare wrote: “Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.” The marketers who want to be heard above all the buzz of this year’s Super Bowl should take note."
"No matter how large the audience, paying millions of dollars for a 60 second commercial, doesn’t make sense unless the ads pay for themselves in other ways, such as online buzz, media coverage and memorability—three things that the power of a good story can deliver."
"If advertisers want to step up their game in the Super Bowl, they would be better served by looking beyond the latest fad, camera trick and celebrity. Instead, they should refer back to the master of storytelling: William Shakespeare."
The top spots in our Super Bowl ad analysis had all five acts of Freytag’s Pyramid:
"If you look back at the Super Bowl ad polls, you will see the top spots have full stories. These are the commercials that are talked about and remembered. Other commercials may get initial attention for being controversial for using sex appeal or celebrity, but then fade away finishing near the bottom of the Super Bowl Ad polls and loosing out on valuable buzz and recall."
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"In The Tempest, Shakespeare wrote: “Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.” The marketers who want to be heard above all the buzz of this year’s Super Bowl should take note."
"No matter how large the audience, paying millions of dollars for a 60 second commercial, doesn’t make sense unless the ads pay for themselves in other ways, such as online buzz, media coverage and memorability—three things that the power of a good story can deliver."
"If advertisers want to step up their game in the Super Bowl, they would be better served by looking beyond the latest fad, camera trick and celebrity. Instead, they should refer back to the master of storytelling: William Shakespeare."
The top spots in our Super Bowl ad analysis had all five acts of Freytag’s Pyramid:
- exposition: where characters, setting and background are introduced;
- rising action: a inciting moment that sets a series of actions into motion;
- climax: when complications lead to a movement of greatest tension and a major action;
- falling action: a reversal sets a series of events down toward the story’s end;
- denouement: a resolution to the inciting movement that explains all remaining unknowns.
"If you look back at the Super Bowl ad polls, you will see the top spots have full stories. These are the commercials that are talked about and remembered. Other commercials may get initial attention for being controversial for using sex appeal or celebrity, but then fade away finishing near the bottom of the Super Bowl Ad polls and loosing out on valuable buzz and recall."
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Kill Bill: why we must take Shakespeare out of the classroom
Mark Powell
Plays are meant to be explored on their feet; actors and audiences are supposed to argue over meaning, word and deed. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
"Shakespeare wrote to put money in his pocket, food on the table and fire in the bellies of his audiences, not strike modern teenagers with fear. Most of Shakespeare's audiences were illiterate. His words were chosen to be spoken or heard, not to be read and deadened behind a desk – they wither when performance is removed."
"Our schools are full of Shakespeare, but often in completely the wrong places. Old uncle Bill has become the relative that we invite to family gatherings out of habit, not because we actually want to. He sits there in the corner sharing his stories with anyone who'll listen; the adults lend a patient ear out of a sense of duty and most of the kids have no concept of the vitality of his youth." (Read More)
Mark Powell
Plays are meant to be explored on their feet; actors and audiences are supposed to argue over meaning, word and deed. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
"Shakespeare wrote to put money in his pocket, food on the table and fire in the bellies of his audiences, not strike modern teenagers with fear. Most of Shakespeare's audiences were illiterate. His words were chosen to be spoken or heard, not to be read and deadened behind a desk – they wither when performance is removed."
"Our schools are full of Shakespeare, but often in completely the wrong places. Old uncle Bill has become the relative that we invite to family gatherings out of habit, not because we actually want to. He sits there in the corner sharing his stories with anyone who'll listen; the adults lend a patient ear out of a sense of duty and most of the kids have no concept of the vitality of his youth." (Read More)
"William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. To mark the Folger’s nationwide celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Tulane University threw a New Orleans-style Jazz Funeral with the Liberty Brass Band. Later that year, the Liberty Brass Band travelled to Washington DC to recreate the event on the Folger stage."
ENCORES: A Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare
ENCORES: A Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare
