A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Them: Shakespeare is soooo romantic!
Me: đŸ¤¨
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Huge shout-out to my consulting pocket dramaturg Kate Pitt for coming up with the ideas for all of these.
Be sure to check out Shakespearean Valentines (part 1) and Shakespearean Valentines (part 2), as well as all my other Valentine’s Day themed comics.
Don’t know why it’s taken me six years to follow up on my first set of Shakespearean Valentines, but better late than never, eh?
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
It's Valentine's Day! Let's dust off one of Cole Porter's classic love songs and give it a Shakespearean twist.
If you're not familiar with the original song, here's another Shakespearean version of it, courtesy of the RSC Shakespeare Revue:
To be honest, I was trying to find a different song to use, because they did such a good job with this one and I didn't want to retread the ground, but it was just TOO MUCH FUN not to...
Happy Valentine's Day! (Or, if you prefer, Happy Singles Appreciation Day!)
It's Valentine's Day today, and everyone seems to be sharing all sorts of wonderfully soppy and romantic quotes from Shakespeare. But for those of us who remain single on Valentine's Day, there's one very important thing to keep in mind...
..being in a romantic relationship, especially in Shakespeare, isn't always all it's cracked up to be.
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.
I was debating how to celebrate Valentine's Day on this blog, given that it is, as we know it today anyways, a crassly commercial holiday that potentially generates a huge amount of emotional baggage. However, love is, by most accounts, a wonderful thing, and below is a video clip compilation of one of my favorite bits of love-related Shakespeare from As You Like It.
Some background first... If you've never seen As You Like It, this is what you need to know to understand this scene:
Got all that? Good. Here's a compilation of various video productions of As You Like It, specifically the last bit of Act 5, Scene 2.
0:00 - As You Like it, 1936, Elisabeth Bergner, Laurence Olivier, Richard Ainley, Joan White
2:33 - BBC Shakespeare, 1978, Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Maynard Williams, Victoria Puncknett
4:56 - As You Like It, 2006, Bryce Dallas Howard, David Oyelowo, Alex Wyndham, Jade Jefferies
7:02 - Shakespeare's Globe, 2009, Naomi Frederick, Jack Laskey, Michael Benz, Jade Williams
That's love, I suppose: confused, mistaken, heartfelt, frustrated, chaotic, poetical, unrequited, and totally deluded.
Anyways... Happy Valentine's Day! I'll be back on Monday with some more Three-Panel Plays for you.
NOTE: One of the clips is owned by the BBC, and thus the video may be blocked in some countries. I will eventually figure out which one it is (presumably the BBC Shakespeare clip) and try to put up a video without it.
