Today’s the day, and if we were in Stratford, evidently, we’d all be dressing up.
Archive for April, 2009
Happy birthday, Will!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford wrote Shakespeare, says judge
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We never seem to have these cases in Britain… 88 year old judge decides that WS wasn’t the bard after all:
Justice Stevens, who dropped out of graduate study in English to join the Navy in 1941, is an Oxfordian — that is, he believes the works ascribed to William Shakespeare actually were written by the [...]
Yet more on the supposed tomb of Cleo
Posted in Antony and Cleopatra on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rogueclassicism has this update. It’s all about the cleft in Antony’s chin apparently.
Tutorial Report
Posted in Antony and Cleopatra, Tutorials, tagged Antony and Cleopatra on April 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our tutorial on Antony and Cleopatra focused mainly on the TMA question, so we spent quite a bit of time discussing Plutarch rather than Shakespeare. A presentation was followed by some general questions, which were meant to give some practice for the assignment. The presentation and the handout are available from the links below. [...]
Henry VIII on the radio
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All is True on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The play that Norton calls All is True gets a rare outing tonight on Radio 3. Details are here.
This is the play that, famously, brought the house down at the old Globe.
Plutarch on Antony and Cleopatra
Posted in TMA, tagged Antony and Cleopatra, Plutarch on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across an interesting review of an obscure book Much of the article is not strictly relevant to us, but one passage struck me:
B. astutely claims in “Antony-Osiris, Cleopatra-Isis” that Plutarch’s Life of Antony is not only an unforgettable masterpiece of Greek literature but also a masterpiece of striking ambiguity in character portrayal. The [...]
Germaine Greer’s not impressed…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… with the supposed portrait either: She says
There is hardly an Elizabethan male portrait, genuine or fake, that has not been touted as a possible effigy of Shakespeare. The National Portrait Gallery records no fewer than 48, of which it selected eight for its Searching for Shakespeare exhibition in 2006. Even that was over-optimistic.
