Analogue Boy
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What about the future/past and by comparison to the Works of Shakespeare, the simplistic trans-dimensional postal device they knocked together with rocks and roots way back in the past?
Also, Shakespeare 'a cultural icon' abroadShakespeare's England: Where do you find it today?
By Jenny Scott, BBC News, England
The inns, brothels, battlefields and towns of England are sprinkled throughout William Shakespeare's plays. On the Bard's 450th birthday, take a tour of the "sceptred isle" that inspired his works - and look at how the locations have changed.
From Birmingham to Milton Keynes - Shakespeare's legacy exists far beyond the confines of his Stratford-upon-Avon birthplace. Many English locations that appear in his plays or are closely connected to them can still be visited, although they are often now drastically different places.
etc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-co ... e-27041828
Thanks for that!JamesWhitehead said:Somehow, until today, I had managed to remain entirely ignorant of Doctor Orville Ward Owen and his Shakespeare Mangle.
I'm plumping for 'the rest is silence', hence the missing caption.
This gives me hope that one day an older folio will turn up with a short preface explaining who wrote which play, why it was never openly declared and what deal was made with the barely literate son-of-a-glover to put his name on this folio...I can dream.Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island
A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, printed in 1623 and one of the most sought-after books in the world, has been discovered in a stately home on a Scottish island.
Oxford University academics, who authenticated the book on the Isle of Bute, say the find is extremely rare and significant.
The First Folio was the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays.
The discovery comes ahead of the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
Emma Smith, professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University, said her first reaction on being told the stately home was claiming to have an original First Folio was: "Like hell they have."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35973094
We're trying to work out a way of marking Shakey's 400th deathday, and the most popular suggestion at the moment is me spending all week in full Will clobber, hair and beard styling included, with some sort of video of it being made public.
The tenuous reasoning behind this is that I was born in Stratford-on-Avon and am 40 this year.
Seems reasonable to me.
You should also play 17th Century music for the week.
Modern tunes played on Harpsicord and flute, or 17th Century tunes played on modern instruments?
"Lute solo!"
If you have access to Channel 4, this may be of interest:We're trying to work out a way of marking Shakey's 400th deathday, and the most popular suggestion at the moment is me spending all week in full Will clobber, hair and beard styling included, with some sort of video of it being made public.
The tenuous reasoning behind this is that I was born in Stratford-on-Avon and am 40 this year.
If you have access to Channel 4, this may be of interest:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/great-canal-journeys/on-demand/62008-006
Old Thesps Timothy West and Prunella Scales take a canal narrowboat to Stratford on Avon. Tim is turning into an old fart, and Pru has memory problems, but they still get on together. (An interesting example for Growing Old!) Both acted in Shakespeare's stuff almost from their youth, and can spout lines of it from memory - even Pru!
Lovely countryside along the canals, and even Stratford today seems more rural than I had imagined it would be.
In Stratford, Tim and Pru put on a reading of old Will's stuff in the church where he is buried, for the enjoyment of the locals.
recommended by rynner!
Syb Ill?