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Recommended reading from Dartmouth…

…here are the Shakespearean sonnets one should cover according to the Ivy League: 18 Shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? 29 When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 71 No longer mourn for me when i am dead 73 That time of year thou mayst […]

Gutted…

…missing the 4th British Shakespeare Association Conference.

Will will be busy working on ‘Any other Business’ a scripted conference by Nicoline van Harskamp to be performed Sunday 20 September, 2009.

Here’s the programme of the BSA to see what we missed.

But gutted nonetheless!

Wax lyrical…

….about The Berliner Ensemble!

The Robert Wilson directed show is basically 25 Sonnets with music by Rufus Wainwright. View his version of Sonnet 20 here. Remember regular readers, all feminine lines!

Here’s a review online from Der Spiegel International in English.

And for you lucky SOB’s that can tune into the ARTE TV channel […]

Reading the Sonnets…

…Ok finally a place where the sonnets are together in text and sound. Many thanks got to my techies: Peter Mitchell who designed the code, and Tim Egmond who recorded the sound.

We are up and running NOW HERE!

There’s also a link under Ahem! Hear William, which will remain when this post is buried […]

pretending to be Irish…

…Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton was prepared to go to the Tower for his friend the Earl of Essex. And all because of some deal he (Essex) made with an Irish chieftain in the middle of a river with no-one around to hear what they really talked about. Add to that a failed rebellion […]

Many thanks….

….to those who turned up to the Shakespeare Centre. Yes the weather got the better of us!

The show had its trial run and nobody had to choose between lead, silver, or gold, or even a pound of flesh. A recording was made and we can now study it to make it better and more […]

That’s 7:30pm at Hall’s Croft

Assist ye extempore gods of rime for I am sure i shall turn sonnets! Quartos fill’d with his most high deserts.

So go through the first 17 sonnets and look for the sprung lines. (in the quarto facsimile or a sparsely edited version) There are an awful lot of examples. Almost every sonnet!

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The Great Sonnet show june 5th in Hall’s Croft, Stratford

Sonnet Show Hall’s Croft, Sh’s Son-in-Law’s House, Stratford on Avon, June 5th, 2009.Only two more days to go and praying for good weather and audience. Follow the link above for information. And I look forward to seeing you there.

Countdown…

…so many hours to go. Pray it rains not potatoes!

But the Shakespeare Centre abuts the Birthplace, which is nothing like what it was when he was born though. It beggars belief to think it stood alone. Prime real estate, so close to the market, never. But supposedly his birthplace, though that too would […]

Hall’s Croft performance

Follow this link for information on the show!!!

Sonnet Show Hall’s Croft, Sh’s Son-in-Law’s House, Stratford on Avon, June 5th, 2009.

Wednesday 20th May is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the sonnets. Assist me, ye gods of rhyme, for i am for quires of sonnets. I feel a marathon coming on.

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