Stick Figure Iconography: King John
Let’s take a look a the English king everyone forgets Shakespeare wrote a play about: King John!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Confession: I drew this because I just finished reading yet another popular history of the early Plantagenet kings. I will never forgive Shakespeare for not writing a play about Henry II, although The Lion in Winter more than makes up for it.
Also, they were apparently all red-headed.
GTB Play Page Updates: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sure, maybe you remember my scene-by-scene adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but do you remember the time I re-enacted the Rude Mechanicals using Star Wars action figures?
Well, luckily for you the Midsummer Night’s Dream play page is open for business!
Stick Figure Iconography: Edgar
GTB Play Page Updates: Macbeth
Stick Figure Iconography: Richard II
It’s everyone’s favorite drama queen!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
The little silly-looking pointed beard is historical. It’s in his portraits and his funeral effigy and it looks SO SILLY. I love it.
GTB Play Page Updates: Romeo and Juliet
The “Mya Laboriously Organizes and Updates the Good Tickle Brain Archives” saga continues! The Romeo and Juliet play page is up and running! Wherefore should you check it out? Wherefore not?
Shakespeare on Masks
Some useful quotes for our current time.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will INSIST THAT YOU PULL YOUR MASK UP OVER YOUR NOSE, COME ON, MY GLASSES ARE FOGGING UP TOO BUT SERIOUSLY ONLY SELFISH SOCIOPATHIC NARCISSISTS THINK THAT’S TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY FOR LITERALLY SAVING LIVES AND CURBING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC JUST dammit… I’m so tired… just wear your masks properly.