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Billy!

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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BillyOne thing of the English world that I wholeheartedly admire is the ability and will to keep the classics alive. In Italy we have this disastrous tendency to keep our Authors under glass, to be uncritically admired or nothing else…

Hardly a way to promote independent thinking or an active love of literature, alas – and, as a result, Dante, Manzoni and the others languish under thick layers of dust and the unconfessed boredom of schoolchildren, while Shakespeare is very much alive. Continue reading →

A few Shakespearean Odds and Ends

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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Just what it says on the tin…

Shakespearean intersection in Pittsburgh, 1955, photo by W. Eugene Smith

Shakespearean intersection in Pittsburgh, 1955, photo by W. Eugene Smith

Lego Bard

Lego Bard

Christine Silver en Titania, 1913 (Portrait Gallery)

Christine Silver en Titania, 1913 (Portrait Gallery)

An old (1989) image of the excavations of the Rose Theatre in Southwark.

An old (1989) image of the excavations of the Rose Theatre in Southwark.

Thou Art Translated

31 Saturday Oct 2015

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Bless thee! Thou art translated!

Bless thee, Bottom…

You know the OSF and their PlayOn! project? The one about “translating” Shakespeare into contemporary English? We spoke about it a few posts ago, remember?

Well, here is Kelly Monroe Johnston’s take on the matter. Mr. Johnston is co-artistic director of the Rogue and Peasant Players, a New York-based company with a seriously Shakespearean background.

The company, it seems is “of about 11 minds on the issue”, but Mr. Johnston’s argument is a valid and interesting one: he says he is not afraid that the OSF’s translators will fail – but that they will succeed…

How so? Read the post to find out. Here is the link again.

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Little Shakespeareans

02 Thursday Jul 2015

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BoyHe is nine, going on ten, and brimming with eagerness.

Well, perhaps not quite so eager, the day he landed at Il Palcoscenico di Carta towed by his mother – but this changed soon enough when we gave him a speech or two to read. You could see he loved it from the start: the atmosphere, the reading, the tale, the voices, being part of it, chatting with the real actors… Continue reading →

Il Palcoscenico di Carta

05 Tuesday May 2015

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Pollock's 4ScribblingsDo you remember the Paper Stage – Canterbury’s public play-reading group? I told you about it some time ago.

What perhaps I didn’t tell you is that, after that post, Dr. Newman of the Paper Stage wrote to me asking: why not? Why not do it, why not set up an Italian chapter of the Paper Stage in my hometown?

And indeed… why not? Continue reading →

Tickle-Brain Resolutions

03 Saturday Jan 2015

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I just discovered (thanks, M.!) Mya Gosling’s delightful blog, Peace, Good Tickle-Brain, where she hosts her Shakespearean* and non-Shakespearean web-comics.

Just to whet your appetite, and because it is highly seasonal, have a look at these New Year’s resolutions** by Shakespeare’s characters…

ResolutionsBut, as I said, the whole thing is an absolute delight – from  well worth checking out. Have a nice weekend.

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* No, Shakeaspeare didn’t vanish from Scribblings Wednesday at midnight. Neither did Marlowe. Just so you know.

** Maybe we’ll discuss those in earnest, next week.

Shakespeare On Demand

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

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GPDid you know you can now view Globe productions on demand on the Globe Player?

You can choose your play, read an introduction and a cast list, watch a preview and browse viewers’ comments. If you like what you see, you can either rent or buy the video for a very reasonable charge – or even send it as a gift, which is a nice thought for this time of the year.

You can also choose from a wide selection of foreign productions: Shakespeare in a rainbow of languages, under Globe To Globe.

And there is some free content as well, such as Muse of Fire, a series of interviews with Shakespearean actors and directors, about the relevance of the Bard in today’s world. And the bizarre but fascinating Sonnet Project NYC, a collection of small movies – one for each sonnet, filmed in New York to combine Shakespeare’s works with the city’s “urban poetry”.

A treasure trove for all of us who live far, far, far away from London and its theatres.

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Picture Shakespeare

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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www.pinterest.comLook what I found: a collection of art inspired by Shakespeare, with a definite emphasis on XIXth Century paintings. You can browse by play or by artists.

And this slightly odd book of two hundred and thirty vignette engravings – all of them Shakespearean illustrations from designs of John Thurston. And there is also this 1909 Gallery of Shakespeare Illustrations from Celebrated Works of Art. Both books to browse online or to download from Internet Archive.

The University of Wisconsin’s Illustrated Shakespeare Collection takes some little effort to browse, but is well worth it.

Also, there should be the Oppel-Hammerschmidt Shakespeare Illustration Archive at the University of Mainz, but all links to it seem to be broken… Still, because the description sounds so promising, I post the link all the same, and if you discover something I missed, please let me know in the comments.

And finally, for variety’s sake, a Pinterest board, and another, and a third,

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