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I finished reading Mercutio, and it was amazing! Such a smart, fun, adventurous novel. Mercutio has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare characters, and Kate Heartfield is a favorite author of mine, so this was a match made in heaven (or Faery). It absolutely delivered everything: literary references, tarot themes, medieval Italian history, voyages to the edge of the ocean, fae curses, and queer romance. Yessss.
#bookstodon #books #AmReading #fantasy #Shakespeare #literature
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I finished reading Mercutio, and it was amazing! Such a smart, fun, adventurous novel. Mercutio has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare characters, and Kate Heartfield is a favorite author of mine, so this was a match made in heaven (or Faery). It absolutely delivered everything: literary references, tarot themes, medieval Italian history, voyages to the edge of the ocean, fae curses, and queer romance. Yessss.
#bookstodon #books #AmReading #fantasy #Shakespeare #literature
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I finished reading Mercutio, and it was amazing! Such a smart, fun, adventurous novel. Mercutio has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare characters, and Kate Heartfield is a favorite author of mine, so this was a match made in heaven (or Faery). It absolutely delivered everything: literary references, tarot themes, medieval Italian history, voyages to the edge of the ocean, fae curses, and queer romance. Yessss.
#bookstodon #books #AmReading #fantasy #Shakespeare #literature
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I finished reading Mercutio, and it was amazing! Such a smart, fun, adventurous novel. Mercutio has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare characters, and Kate Heartfield is a favorite author of mine, so this was a match made in heaven (or Faery). It absolutely delivered everything: literary references, tarot themes, medieval Italian history, voyages to the edge of the ocean, fae curses, and queer romance. Yessss.
#bookstodon #books #AmReading #fantasy #Shakespeare #literature
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I finished reading Mercutio, and it was amazing! Such a smart, fun, adventurous novel. Mercutio has always been one of my favorite Shakespeare characters, and Kate Heartfield is a favorite author of mine, so this was a match made in heaven (or Faery). It absolutely delivered everything: literary references, tarot themes, medieval Italian history, voyages to the edge of the ocean, fae curses, and queer romance. Yessss.
#bookstodon #books #AmReading #fantasy #Shakespeare #literature
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Sonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee, against my self I'll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.bot by @davidaugust
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Sonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee, against my self I'll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.bot by @davidaugust
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Sonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee, against my self I'll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.bot by @davidaugust
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Sonnet 089 - LXXXIX
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence:
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.
Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
For thee, against my self I'll vow debate,
For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.bot by @davidaugust
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ALEXANDER: They say he is a very man per se
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA: So do all men unless they are drunk, sick,
or have no legs.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 19ff (1.2.19-22) (1602)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #troilusandcressida #humancondition #machismo #manliness #masculinity #standalone
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ALEXANDER: They say he is a very man per se
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA: So do all men unless they are drunk, sick,
or have no legs.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 19ff (1.2.19-22) (1602)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #troilusandcressida #humancondition #machismo #manliness #masculinity #standalone
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ALEXANDER: They say he is a very man per se
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA: So do all men unless they are drunk, sick,
or have no legs.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 19ff (1.2.19-22) (1602)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #troilusandcressida #humancondition #machismo #manliness #masculinity #standalone
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ALEXANDER: They say he is a very man per se
And stands alone.
CRESSIDA: So do all men unless they are drunk, sick,
or have no legs.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 19ff (1.2.19-22) (1602)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #troilusandcressida #humancondition #machismo #manliness #masculinity #standalone
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Série de conférences à l'Université de Montréal pour fêter les 50 ans de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance, 6-8 juin. De nombreux sujets abordés, en Histoire, Histoire de l'art, littérature, médecine... Un très beau programme pour les chanceuses et chanceux qui vivent à proximité !
https://arthist.net/archive/52366
#Canada #Montréal #Montreal #Histoire #HistoireDelArt #Incunable #Hermaphrodite #Shakespeare #Renaissance #recherche #université #History #UniversitéDeMontreal #Québec #Quebec
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Série de conférences à l'Université de Montréal pour fêter les 50 ans de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance, 6-8 juin. De nombreux sujets abordés, en Histoire, Histoire de l'art, littérature, médecine... Un très beau programme pour les chanceuses et chanceux qui vivent à proximité !
https://arthist.net/archive/52366
#Canada #Montréal #Montreal #Histoire #HistoireDelArt #Incunable #Hermaphrodite #Shakespeare #Renaissance #recherche #université #History #UniversitéDeMontreal #Québec #Quebec
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Série de conférences à l'Université de Montréal pour fêter les 50 ans de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance, 6-8 juin. De nombreux sujets abordés, en Histoire, Histoire de l'art, littérature, médecine... Un très beau programme pour les chanceuses et chanceux qui vivent à proximité !
https://arthist.net/archive/52366
#Canada #Montréal #Montreal #Histoire #HistoireDelArt #Incunable #Hermaphrodite #Shakespeare #Renaissance #recherche #université #History #UniversitéDeMontreal #Québec #Quebec
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Série de conférences à l'Université de Montréal pour fêter les 50 ans de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance, 6-8 juin. De nombreux sujets abordés, en Histoire, Histoire de l'art, littérature, médecine... Un très beau programme pour les chanceuses et chanceux qui vivent à proximité !
https://arthist.net/archive/52366
#Canada #Montréal #Montreal #Histoire #HistoireDelArt #Incunable #Hermaphrodite #Shakespeare #Renaissance #recherche #université #History #UniversitéDeMontreal #Québec #Quebec
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Série de conférences à l'Université de Montréal pour fêter les 50 ans de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance, 6-8 juin. De nombreux sujets abordés, en Histoire, Histoire de l'art, littérature, médecine... Un très beau programme pour les chanceuses et chanceux qui vivent à proximité !
https://arthist.net/archive/52366
#Canada #Montréal #Montreal #Histoire #HistoireDelArt #Incunable #Hermaphrodite #Shakespeare #Renaissance #recherche #université #History #UniversitéDeMontreal #Québec #Quebec
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Shakespeare #TheLionKing #WestSideStory 35 Great Movies You Didn't Realize Are Based on Shakespeare Plays http://dlvr.it/TSNFB8
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Shakespeare #TheLionKing #WestSideStory 35 Great Movies You Didn't Realize Are Based on Shakespeare Plays http://dlvr.it/TSNFB8
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Modern Shakespeare adaptations keep trying to “fix” tragedy and end up breaking it. When you strip away the structure, the language, and the logic that give these stories weight, all that’s left is aesthetic imitation. Updating the setting isn’t the problem. Failing to rebuild the architecture is.
#Shakespeare #Hamlet #FilmAnalysis #Adaptation #Theatre #Cinema #Storytelling #Screenwriting #FilmCriticism #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/the-architectural-collapse-of-the-tragic-form-modern-shakespearean-adaptations-and-the-reclamation-model/ -
FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal
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FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal
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FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal
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FRIAR LAWRENCE: These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 9ff (2.6.9-11) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #romeoandjuliet #friarlawrence #allconsuming #ardor #burning #devotion #enthusiasm #fervor #intensity #passion #recklessness #violence #zeal
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Onte asistín no Salón Teatro á representación de "Hamlet", do Centro Dramático Galego. Gran nivel: un espectáculo sorprendente no apartado de produción, con solucións técnicas imaxinativas e inxeniosas, e unha adaptación, en xeral, brillante. Algúns problemas de son (algúns diálogos escoitábanse mal, a pesar do pequeno da sala) e o nivel de actores e actrices era desigual, sen ser nunca baixo. Un luxo contar con este tipo de producións na Galiza.
#teatro #teatrogalego #Hamlet #shakespeare #CDG -
#neu & #OpenAccess:
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography"
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009614108
"This Element traces the history of Shakespearean #bibliography from its earliest days to the present. With an emphasis on how we enumerate and find scholarship about #Shakespeare, this Element argues that understanding bibliographies is foundational to how we research Shakespeare. […]" -
Tues. April 28, 2026: Shakespeare & Sonnets
image courtesy of Adriano Gadini from PixabayTuesday, April 28, 2026
Waxing Moon
Sunny and cool
Here we are, in another week! I hope yours started well.
You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here.
Friday, I folded the laundry and put it away after breakfast, got some housework done, tried to reach maintenance and failed. I reached them later, and they planned to stop by either late Friday or early Monday.
Sat down and finished/did the polish on the ghostwriting. It took me until nearly 3, but I got it done and out the door – two days early! My next assignment is due May 6.
I decided to call it a wrap for the workday, and put the salmon with miso/honey glaze into the slow cooker. It turned out really well. It only needs two hours in the slow cooker, and tastes wonderful.
It’s the first time I worked with miso soup mix (I love miso soup). I may have to make those packets part of my pantry staples.
Maintenance didn’t make it by the end of the day, which meant first thing Monday.
I was waiting for a delivery that never showed up (although the tracking insisted it would be delivered Friday evening), and missed the closing of the gallery show.
Slept so-so into Saturday, up early. Housework. Most of the day was housework, including a deep clean of the bathroom (in case they had to switch the toilet out on Monday). I mean, it was time in the spring cleaning roster anyway, but it took much longer than I expected, because I moved everything movable out, scrubbed corners, wiped down crown and chair rail molding, cleaned the heating vents, scrubbed out sink, toilet and tub more thoroughly than the weekly cleaning, went through things that tend to pile up on surfaces, wiped the windows, bulbs, etc., along with the regular vacuum and floor mop. You wouldn’t think a small bathroom would take that long, but it did. Willa and Tessa supervised.
In between waiting for things to dry, I worked on contest entries.
The delivery showed up in the late morning, and Charlotte supervised that unpacking, then played in the box for the rest of the day.
The woman who lived in the upstairs apartment in the green house across the street (and parks next to me) moved out. I’m sad to see her go. She was a good neighbor, and only lived here for a year. I hope the next person who moves in is nice (and doesn’t try to take my parking spot).
In the late afternoon, I put on Real People clothes and headed for the gallery. Climbed a ladder and took down my wooden spoon sculpture, and retrieved the collage. Packed those into the car, and picked up takeout on the way home. We ate. I changed into Better Real People Clothes and headed down to Mosaic Gallery and the Elsewhere Shakespeare production of KING LEAR (my cohort colleague co-runs the company).
The place was packed, they had to bring out extra chairs, and it was a really well-done 6-actor, 90-minute version. The way they cut the scripts is always so interesting, especially in the way it informs the acting choices. I enjoyed it, saw a bunch of people I know and had quick catch-ups.
It was a lovely night to be on foot there and back, although the temperature dropped overnight back into the 30’s.
Unfortunately, I checked mail/social media when I got home, and saw the news of yet another staged “assassination” attempt, this time at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. All so That Thing can have yet another hissy fit demanding his ballroom. There is no way in hell that a guy carrying that much hardware got through security. There is no way in hell that, if it was real, the dinner would have continued. They didn’t even do a good job staging it. I mean, the press secretary tipped people off ahead of time.
And yes, I know protocols and procedures in these situations. I make my living writing about them, and have done research/deep dive interviews with enough professionals in that field to know how it works, along with collecting a good shelf of procedural handbooks.
This was a load of crap. I could say so much more, but it’s not worth my time.
I was even angrier on Monday when it turns out the security team had the information on the shooter and allowed him in so That Thing and his minions could push harder for the ballroom. Corrupt, grifting jackasses all of them.
Up early on Sunday. Did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. This is the last week with the Green Witch Tarot and the Green Witch’s Oracle. Next week we switch decks.
We were supposed to get yet another hard frost Sunday into Monday, so I didn’t dare do any more of the teak oiling.
I papered both the inside and the outside of the kitchen door with the peel-and-stick paper. The inside went well, and I’m proud of matching the panels so carefully. The outside was harder, as though the proportions were slightly off. I’m not sure I like the outcome. I will live with it for a bit. If I don’t, I can always peel it off and try a different pattern.
Instead of going to the artist talk, I stayed to dig into the contest entries. They have to be finished this week. I hadn’t promised anyone I would be there, so I wasn’t letting anyone down. This category has the most entries. I like to go back to the ones I think are the strongest. The first read-through is always how it stands alone. The second is looking at the strongest choices and looking at the details in relation to each other to find the strongest pieces.
Cooked dinner, sat on the porch for a bit. I was tired, and my hip bothered me (it’s been grumpy since late last week). I went to bed early because I was tired, and the hip woke me up a few times. Weird dreams.
Up at the usual time on Monday. We’d had a hard frost – let’s hope this is the last. I want to get things set up outside. The next planting day isn’t until Friday the 1st, so I don’t have to worry about seeds. There are quite a few planting days in May, so I should be able to get in all the seeds.
Posted the Intent for the Week and the Tarot reading. I’m having trouble getting into the computer. I had trouble 3 or 4 times on Monday morning. It better not be going on the fritz.
Maintenance came and worked on the toilet, but the first fix didn’t work, so they had to go out and get more parts for the next fix. Good thing I deep cleaned on Saturday. All I had to do was move things out of that alcove again, and give it another sweep with the broom. But it meant the morning errands had to be moved back.
There’s a big kerfuffle about Xandra Ibarra’s nude performance at the MFA Boston. You can read about it here. The people getting all huffy and offended need to get over themselves. If they don’t like it or agree with it, that’s up to them. But saying it shouldn’t exist/happen – nope. Ibarra made a good point – how much revered art depicts violence against women or nude women? Why aren’t there more conversations about the acts depicted and those histories, as well as the technical skills of the artist? I don’t think it’s a “mockery” of traditional art, as one poster declared it, but a prompt to communication and different ways of viewing the human body in art, policies around the body, and the parameters of a subject’s consent. Laughter isn’t always humor and/or mockery. It can be a defense mechanism. The piece itself was performance art to provoke conversation and part of the museum’s event offerings. It’s not like she just wandered in and started performing. It was a planned performance. Would it have made me uncomfortable if I’d been in the room? Probably, and that means it achieved what it meant to do, and made me look at the issues from more angles.
I’d also like to see the commissioned Buddha sculpture on the High Line in NYC. I’ve never even been on High Line since it was opened. The last time I was in NYC, I was focused on the reading of my play, and didn’t make it over there. You can read about it here.
The toilet was fixed. I’d done admin work during the repair, stuff where I could get interrupted as necessary. I also put together the marketing content calendar for May. I am putting the radio plays into the mix now, too, along with the anthologies in regular rotation. There’s no reason they can’t keep growing their audiences.
Once that was all done, I headed out to the library and then the grocery store. I had to drop off/pick up books. I swapped out the decaf for regular coffee. I showed it at the courtesy desk and the woman burst out laughing, agreeing that me holding a bag of decaf was obviously a mistake, and to just switch them out. Nothing like people in town knowing your quirks! I also picked up a couple of other things.
Home, got everything upstairs and put away. It was too close to lunchtime to start anything else, so I had my lunch and then settled into some work for a few hours. I finished the literary committee work, dug into the contest entries, then switched over to the ghostwriting for a couple of hours.
I didn’t get as far on that as I hoped, but I put in some time and then switched over to contest entries for a couple of hours.
I put on Real People Clothes again and headed down to the R&D Store at MASS MoCA for my colleague’s Sonnets in Conversation event. He’d chosen four sonnets, and five poets created work in response to them, an ekphrastic exercise. One of the poets was from the cohort on which I advised, and it was great to see her again and hear her work. Her work is really wonderful and layered.
The event was interesting, and some of the work resonated with me more than other work did. Which is how it goes. I caught up with a few people, and walked home with someone from the event who turns out to be a neighbor, one house over. We’d never met before, just seen each other on the street. This neighbor is moving out soon, but only about a half a block away, and works at MASS MoCA, so we are likely to keep crossing paths, especially since we’re both Shakespeare lovers.
Heated up some leftovers. I had hoped to get some more contest entries done in the evening, but I was too tired. Instead, I strung the summer lights up on the porch and we sat out there watching the light shift.
Decent night’s sleep, up at the usual time, the typical routine. On today’s agenda: get some of the teak oiling done on the furniture out back, work on BETTING MAN, work on the ghostwriting, work on contest entries. I plan to finally get back to Tuesday night yoga classes tonight. I have to get through a bunch of email – things came through last night that I was too tired to look at, including notes from the ghostwriting assignment I turned in last Friday.
Once I’ve wrapped the contest entries and submitted those, this coming weekend, and ROOTED is open, I need to look over my stage play notes and get those back into the schedule. I need a couple more ten-minute plays, a couple of 20-40 minute plays, and I need to finish up some of the full-lengths. I also have to turn around the edits for the anthology story, but I have until June for that, so I don’t need to rush. I just need to keep it in front of me, so I don’t forget it.
I hope you’re having a great start to your week.
#art #freelance #housework #lies #poetry #Shakespeare #tarot #theatre #weather #writing -
Avec de grandes marionnettes, cet artiste rennais propose une adaptation originale de Richard III de
Le metteur en scène et marionnettiste rennais Yoann Pencolé a décidé de revisiter l’œuvre de Shakespeare, Richard III.…
#Rennes #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #actu #Actualités #adaptation #artiste #bretagne #europe #grandes #III #marionnettes #originale #propose #redon #rennais #Républiquefrançaise #Richard #shakespeare
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/890322/ Avec de grandes marionnettes, cet artiste rennais propose une adaptation originale de Richard III de #actu #Actualités #adaptation #artiste #bretagne #EU #europe #FR #France #grandes #III #marionnettes #News #originale #propose #redon #rennais #Rennes #RépubliqueFrançaise #Richard #shakespeare
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#PatrickStewart Reads All 154 of Shakespeare’s #Sonnets in New Audiobook
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-stewart-shakespeare-sonnets-audiobook-1236680391/
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Fri. April 24, 2026: The Start of a Very Shakespearean Week
image courtesy of WikiImages from PixabayFriday, April 24, 2026
Waxing Moon
Sunny and cold
Friday, Friday, nearly time for the weekend!
I went down to the mechanic and was there just a few minutes after they opened. They had the blades in stock – who knew I needed two different sizes? I know now! The mechanic also taught me how to switch out the blades, gave me a spare set of clips and special cloths to wipe the blades in case they get streaky. Good thing I cleaned out the glove box a few months ago! Each blade had to be bought separately (for what a pair used to cost), but it was still within my budget. And these blades are so much better than the other ones.
I was done in 15 minutes.
Back home, played with the cats because it was too early to head for the stores. I put in a Chewy order for more dry food – got to keep those tummies full.
The fog cleared up, and it was nice and sunny. I grabbed my bags and headed out for errands. Grocery store first. I shopped more than I planned, but some items I wasn’t expecting for a few weeks were in, so I grabbed them. I mean, now that we’re stocking for the Apocalypse, and all that. I grabbed a bag of decaf coffee by mistake, but I will mix it with the one with caffeine in it (two bags were on sale for the price of one, and I grabbed the wrong one). If I just drink decaf, I get very sick, but if I mix it, I should be okay. Or, I might go back to the store and see if I can switch them out. Liquor store next – it’s almost rosé season. They had a lovely looking bottle of Portuguese rosé on sale, so I grabbed it. Library last, just as they opened. Dropped off a big stack of books; there were only 2 to pick up.
Home, unloaded, put everything away. Took a break, then turned my attention to BETTING MAN. Got about 1K done, less than I hoped, but hit the day’s goal.
Did the day’s marketing.
The #FreelanceFriends chat was fun, with a guest I hadn’t had a chance to chat with in a long time.
Ate lunch on the porch, enjoying the beautiful weather.
Switched to the ghostwriting. Got some good work in, where I hoped to be. Today I have to add in a few things, give it a polish, and I might be able to get it out by the end of the day. Fingers crossed. Then I could switch back to the other assignment on Monday, and get that out by early the following week.
I was done early enough I even had time for a bit of a break before getting myself together and heading for the book swap. I even got some planting done – more cat grass, more wildflowers (packet from a different company), lemon balm.
It was lovely weather to walk down, nice and sunny, not too cold, a bit of a breeze. The book swap was a lot of fun. One of the two books I brought was scooped up almost immediately, which made me happy. I found a book I’d been looking for, and having trouble finding a copy.
The only person I knew was the owner, but everyone attending chatted and was happy about being there. I’m glad I went.
Came home, made pizza, had a quiet evening. Weird dreams in the night.
Up early, out to the laundromat, got the laundry done, and will put it away after breakfast. I’ll try to get maintenance scheduled in here at some point, too, either today or early next week. I’ll finish the ghostwriting assignment this morning (I hope) and work on BETTING MAN once that’s out the door.
I’m making salmon with a honey miso glaze in the crockpot tonight, and it only needs 2 hours, so I have to remember to actually do it this afternoon.
Tonight, our associate member show closes at FutureLabs. I’m going to nip down just for a bit to look at everything one last time.
Tomorrow, at 5, when the gallery closes, I will drive down and pick up my pieces, bring them home, have a quick bite of dinner, before I head to Mosaic Gallery. The friend who runs a Shakespeare company is doing a performance of KING LEAR. On Sunday, my radio play “Inspired By” that was produced in the UK goes live. In the afternoon, I’m supposed to attend an artist talk up at Eclipse Mill, the converted factory that’s live/workspace for artists.
In between all that is housework, finish reading the scripts for the literary committee meeting next week, and do some serious work on contest entries. I also have to make some decisions on a couple of things that need answers by next week.
Next week is very busy, too, mostly with the local Shakespeare Festival, but also with the literary committee meeting, wrapping up contest entries, and ghostwriting deadlines. It’s the good kind of busy, it just requires focus.
Have a good one!
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Tonight, I came across pictures from when I was Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. That was such a fun play, need to get around to Shakespeare again.
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Tonight, I came across pictures from when I was Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. That was such a fun play, need to get around to Shakespeare again.
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Tonight, I came across pictures from when I was Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. That was such a fun play, need to get around to Shakespeare again.
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Tonight, I came across pictures from when I was Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. That was such a fun play, need to get around to Shakespeare again.
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Tonight, I came across pictures from when I was Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night. That was such a fun play, need to get around to Shakespeare again.
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April 23ʳᵈ, celebrating the traditional anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare and the feast day of St George — here seen killing a rather watery dragon in Barcelona — whom I have always liked for his cosmopolitan interests.
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A New Old Musical, Now Available in Book Form
I have written a new musical. It is also, simultaneously, an old musical. The story happened in 1537. Shakespeare wrote the central character in 1595 and disappeared him from the text in the same scene that introduced him. My piece sits in Renaissance dramatic verse arranged into two acts with song cues a composer can set for voice and chamber orchestra. So when I say I have written a new musical, I mean that I have written the most ancient kind of thing a person can write and I have written it in 2026 and I am calling it new because that is what it is.
The piece is called The Apothecary of Mantua: A Musical Drama in Two Acts. It is now available as a book.
Let me sit with that sentence for a moment, because the marketing copy people at every other publishing house would tell me to cut it. “A musical now available as a book” is a paradox. Musicals are performed. Books are read. A musical that is a book is either a cast recording liner notes expanded to absurdity or it is something else entirely, which is what this is.
This is a reading edition of a complete dramatic work. Book and lyrics by me. Score to be written by someone else. The someone else is, for the moment, a hypothetical someone whose name I do not yet know, but whose phone number I hope to be given in the next six months. More on that in a moment.
What is in the book
The published volume contains the full libretto across two acts and twenty scenes. Act One runs nine scenes, Act Two runs eleven. Tommaso Vesperi wakes on a Tuesday morning in early autumn 1537, opens his shop on Via del Cigno, and by that evening has sold a vial of poison to a young Veronese nobleman who leaves forty ducats on the counter and disappears into a plague of his own making. In Act Two, everything arrives at once. A morning Watch presence crosses the piazza. A sixteenth-century statute on the books punishes the sale of mortal drugs with death. Tommaso has a decision to make about whether to run, and if he does not run, what to do with the forty ducats before the Watch Captain crosses his threshold.
The libretto itself runs about a hundred pages of the paperback. The rest of the volume is apparatus. There is a production bible covering historical setting, character backstory, relationships, timeline, world-building, and scene-by-scene structural outline. Following that, a composer’s reference with meter assignments per character, a rhyme family inventory, scene-by-scene musical specifications, voice-and-orchestra split architecture, and a duration summary. Then a production and staging section for directors and designers. And four scholarly essays on Mantua in 1537, on the apothecary trade and Paracelsian medicine, on the Mantuan Jewish community in the early Cinquecento, and on Shakespeare’s minor source character.
The total is 338 pages. I am saying this because the scope matters to how you should think about the piece. A typical acting edition of a musical libretto is sixty to ninety pages, cue script dimensions, cheap paper, minimal apparatus. The Apothecary of Mantua takes a different posture. It is a scholarly reading edition that happens to contain a performable musical, or, depending on how you squint at it, a performable musical that happens to travel with four hundred pages of scholarship.
Why publish a musical as a book
The practical answer is that the piece needs to exist in a durable form before a composer sets it, and books are the most durable form we have invented. Composers who want to score the work need a physical copy to read, mark up, argue with, and carry to the piano. Directors who want to produce it need the production bible. Conservatories that want to assign it as a teaching text for dramatic writing or for scholarly research on the source and period need the essays. The book form serves all three audiences.
The philosophical answer is that I have been running David Boles Books Writing & Publishing since 1975, when I was ten years old and got paid for an article in a Lincoln newspaper, and the house was founded on the premise that writers should own the means of production. I do not wait for permission to publish the things I write. The Apothecary of Mantua is the latest demonstration of that premise and it will not be the last.
Critics outside the operation sometimes push on the 1975 founding date. They say a ten-year-old with a check from a newspaper is not a publishing house. My response is that a publishing house is what you do next after your first check. What I did next was decide that my writing would continue, that it would be paid for, and that the infrastructure to deliver it to readers would be mine rather than rented from someone else’s imagination. Fifty-one years later, David Boles Books has published a catalog I can barely track on a good day, and the Apothecary is the newest title on the list.
What happens now
The book is on Amazon in paperback for $19.99. The Kindle edition is $9.99. There is a letter-size download edition for composers who want to print it at home and mark it up with a pencil. All three editions are available through BolesBooks.com.
And here is where I would like to address any composers who may be reading this. You exist. I know you exist because BolesBooks.com gets traffic from music conservatories and I know what kind of person goes looking for a 338-page scholarly reading edition of a musical drama at two in the morning on a Tuesday. That person is a composer between commissions who is restless and scrolling and wondering whether the next project might have already been written and might be waiting to be found.
If you are that composer, this one wants you. Four hundred and twenty-nine years of silence is a long tuning note, and Tommaso Vesperi has been waiting all this time for someone with a score in their head to walk into the shop and ask him what the apothecary of Mantua sounds like in the key of his own voice. I would be delighted to talk with you about setting it. Reach out through BolesBooks.com and we will find an hour to talk about what you hear when you read the first scene.
A new old musical. Now available in book form. The composer seat is still open. A tortoise still hangs from the rafters of the shop. Forty ducats still sit on the counter. And somewhere in the plague rolls of 1527 there is a woman named Fiammetta whose orchestral theme is waiting for the first chord that will make her real again.
Come and write it.
#apothecary #book #broadway #community #composer #davidBoles #love #lyrics #musical #poison #publication #romeoAndJuliet #score #shakespeare #storytelling #writing -
SIGUE ⬇️
Otra parte curiosa es la famosa Casa de Julieta en Verona.
Hoy miles de visitantes acuden a ver el célebre balcón, pero ese balcón no pertenece a ninguna Julieta histórica.
Fue añadido siglos después como atractivo turístico.
La ciudad entendió que la fuerza del mito era tan poderosa que podía formar parte de su identidad cultural, aunque no existiera ninguna prueba de que una joven llamada Julieta viviera allí esperando a Romeo.Y quizá lo más distante entre la realidad y la ficción está en el final.
En la obra, la muerte de los jóvenes provoca la reconciliación entre las familias.
En la historia real, nada fue tan poético.
Las rivalidades entre los linajes italianos no terminaron con perdón ni con abrazos sobre tumbas.
Terminaron con derrotas políticas, exilios, pérdida de poder y desaparición progresiva.
Los Montecchi fueron expulsados de Verona y los Cappelletti fueron perdiendo influencia con el paso del tiempo.
La realidad fue mucho más fría que la literatura.Eso es lo que hace tan poderosa esta historia: Romeo y Julieta nunca existieron como pareja real, pero nacieron de conflictos auténticos, nombres verdaderos y emociones humanas que sí existieron.
Shakespeare no creó la leyenda desde cero; tomó fragmentos dispersos de historia y literatura y les dio una forma tan perfecta que terminó pareciendo más real que la propia realidad.Otro detalle interesante —y que casi nunca se cuenta— es que el Romeo original no era exactamente el joven idealista y profundamente romántico que hoy tenemos en mente.
En las versiones anteriores a William Shakespeare, su carácter variaba bastante según el autor.
En la narración de Matteo Bandello, por ejemplo, Romeo no comienza consumido por un amor imposible como ocurre con Rosalía en la obra shakespeariana.
Más bien aparece como un joven con cierta experiencia amorosa, incluso algo mujeriego, que acude a la fiesta de los Capuleto con la intención bastante directa de encontrar una nueva conquista y olvidar a una amante anterior que no le correspondía.En el poema de Arthur Brooke, el personaje también es distinto.
Aquí Romeo resulta más consciente, más reflexivo y menos dominado por los impulsos.
No actúa con la rapidez casi temeraria que vemos en Shakespeare, sino que entiende mejor las consecuencias de sus actos y el peso de las leyes.
Fue Shakespeare quien lo transformó en un adolescente apasionado, casi precipitado, lo que hace que la historia resulte más intensa… pero también más trágicamente evitable.También cambia el contexto de la violencia.
En los relatos italianos previos, Romeo no mata a Teobaldo movido por una explosión emocional tras la muerte de un amigo.
La pelea forma parte de un enfrentamiento colectivo entre facciones rivales, algo más cercano a una lucha de bandos que a una venganza personal.
En ese sentido, Romeo actúa más como alguien arrastrado por el conflicto social que como un joven cegado por el dolor.Y el final, quizá, es donde más se nota la diferencia.
En la versión de Luigi da Porto, la escena es aún más cruel que en Shakespeare.
Julieta llega a despertar antes de que Romeo muera.
Ambos tienen tiempo de reconocerse, hablar, abrazarse y comprender lo que ha ocurrido mientras el veneno ya está haciendo efecto.
No hay ese instante de fatal sincronía perfecta, sino una despedida consciente, más larga y más dolorosa.Todo esto cambia bastante la percepción del personaje.
El Romeo que hoy conocemos no es solo heredero de una historia antigua, sino una reinterpretación muy concreta: Shakespeare no solo perfeccionó la trama, también reinventó al protagonista, convirtiéndolo en el símbolo universal del amor impulsivo y absoluto que ha llegado hasta nosotros.Históricamente, la figura de Julieta (la heroína trágica que se rebela contra su familia) atrajo más la simpatía del público y de los románticos del siglo XIX, convirtiéndola en el motor turístico de la ciudad.
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#romeoyjulieta #shakespeare #historia #verona #literatura #edadmedia #curiosidadeshistoricas
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RICHARD: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determinèd to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard III, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 28ff (1.1.28-31) (1592)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardiii #badguy #badperson #selfaffirmation #selfawareness #selfdetermination #selfdirection #selfevaluation #selfperception #selfunderstanding #villain
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ADORO IL GENIO - SLACK WYRM
#Amleto je spiccia casa...
#adoroilgenio #13aprile #SlackWyrm #Ferragus #reboot #comicart #comicartist #comics #fumetto #fumetti #fantasy #dracaris📷 #draghi #drago #vignette #fantasy #shakespeare #comedy #humor #dubbi #dubbio #bugia #bugie #dubbioamletico💀 #malvagità #unabravapersona #buono
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If this were #shakespeare, #thiel and #vance would manipulate #rubio and #hegseth to kill each other, maybe in some kind of duel, then the #couchfucker would invoke the #25th and then #BigHands, #47, the #childrapist would die in his sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #whitehouse
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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Ahsoka’s Tale arrives 8th September
#Ahsoka #IanDoescher #StarWars #FanthaTracks #iandoescher #ahsoka #shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Ahsoka’s Tale by Ian Doescher, coming this autumn.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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"A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20 #BookWormSat #Shakespeare #poetry #gayhistory
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"A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20 #BookWormSat #Shakespeare #poetry #gayhistory
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"To beer or not to beer"
- William Shakesbeer#KätToon #Shakespeare #Beer #BadPuns #WilliamShakespeare #FanArt #Bier #SchlechteWortwitze #FanArtFriday
