Campaign Trials: Election Day

It's finally here! Let's get this farcical election over with!

I'm with her. "Her" being Elizabeth Regina/Gloriana/Good Queen Bess, of course, because I'm not about to tell you how to vote. 

Don't forget my Shakespeare Flowchart Poster is available now! I've received a ton of orders in the last few days (thank you!), so it might take me up to a week to get yours to you, but they are going out!

Campaign Trials: The Last Days

THE END IS IN SIGHT! ONLY SIX MORE DAYS UNTIL IT'S ALL OVER. HANG IN THERE, PEOPLE.

Tune in next Tuesday (a.k.a. Election Day) to find out what happens!

Flowchart Poster Available!

In case you missed it, my Shakespeare Flowchart poster is finally available! It makes a great gift for the fellow Shakespeare geeks in your life, and if you order more than one you get $5 OFF each poster!

Campaign Trials: The Scandals

What's an election without a scandal or two?

THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS, SIRRAH

Flowchart Poster Available!

Yes, it's finally here! Get your very own 18"x24" poster version of my Shakespeare Flowchart comic! 

I'll start shipping these out on Wednesday. Depending on the volume of orders, it might take up to a week for me to fulfill your order, but they're FINALLY GOING OUT! I'M REALLY EXCITED.

Campaign Trials: The Debate, part 1

Let's sit down for the first (and, thankfully, only) presidential debate between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe!

I'm being a bit unfair to Marlowe here, as his authorship of the infamous Dutch Church Libel (a poem in rhymed iambic pentameter that threatened recent Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, and which may or may not have led to his untimely demise) was never confirmed. However, it contrasts very nicely with the passage in Sir Thomas More on refugees, which is largely agreed to have been written by Shakespeare. I'll let Sir Ian McKellen take it from here:

Tune in again on Thursday for the rest of the debate! 

On a blatantly commercial note, I'm starting to sell out of various sizes of my never-to-be-reprinted Shakespeare/Burbage campaign t-shirt! If you want one, now is the time to get one! 

Campaign Trials: The Supporters

Our coverage of the Shakespeare vs. Marlowe campaign continues today as our intrepid reporter hits the streets to find out what the people think. 

My main takeaway so far from this series is that I really need to see Tamburlaine.

Tune in next week for Shakespeare and Marlowe's first (and only) presidential debate! And remember, time is running out to get your Shakespeare election swag!

Campaign Trials: The Issues

Let's see what the candidates have to say about some of this election's major issues... in their own words, naturally.

I'm not terribly familiar with Marlowe - the only one of his plays that I've seen so far is Edward II - but I just love "HOLLA, YE PAMPERED JADES OF ASIA", which Tamburlaine declaims as he enters on a chariot drawn by captive kings. It's so unapologetically dramatic. Plus, Pistol totally riffs off of it in 2 Henry IV

Tune in on Thursday to see what the popular support for Shakespeare and Marlowe is like. And remember to pick up your Shakespeare election gear from the Good Tickle Shoppe! (Sorry, Marlowe supporters...)