A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Tomorrow the RSC is live-broadcasting their production of Much Ado About Nothing! (They're calling it Love's Labour's Won and are presenting it as a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, but it's still definitely Much Ado About Nothing.) To celebrate, here's a guide to all you need to know about the play!
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This coming Sunday, the first of March, is St. David's Day! Poor old St. David doesn't get nearly as much international acclaim and love as his hard-drinking Irish counterpart does, but among Shakespearean circles his feast day is heralded for primarily one reason. And that reason is...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus!
Poor Paris. He seems like such a decent guy. A chump, certainly, but a decent guy.
Nobody remembers Paris.
Everyone's familiar with this opening scene from Romeo and Juliet, right?
I don't think you can actually bleed out from a thumb bite, but you never know.
Valentine's Day is this Saturday. What better way to celebrate than with a card from your favorite, totally non-dysfunctional Shakespearean character?
Seriously... don't date a Shakespearean character.
2015 is shaping up to be the year of Love's Labour's Lost. First we have the Royal Shakespeare Company's current production, which is due to be live-streamed to cinemas around the world tomorrow. Then, later this year, I'll be off to see a production at the Stratford Festival in Canada. Finally, this summer there are plans to film a version of Love's Labour's Lost set in a boarding school. (To help support this project, check out their Indiegogo campaign.)
With all that Love's Labour's Lost floating around, I thought it was a good time to put together a handy-dandy one-page guide!
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It's snowed a lot where I am recently. And when life gives you snow, you make snowmen!
...unfortunately the kind of snow that life gave me was the dry, powdery kind, so I couldn't actually make any snowmen. Oh well. Maybe next time.
One of my best friends was visiting town last December and I went over to her parents' house to hang out with her. Her parents were getting rid of stuff and, knowing my interest in Shakespeare, had set aside a little book for me.
I will take roasted crabs over Hamlet angst any day.
