‘April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.’ Happy birthday to the eternally youthful William Shakespeare!
And
now, a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie
authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book
signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. I do so hope
you will help me by ordering the book online. Thank you.
The book is available
for those of you in Great Britain and parts of Europe on this site:
Also
available on http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Calling-book-Ruby-Jand/dp/9163782626/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436073737&sr=1-1&keywords=Ruby+Jand+shakespeare+calling
Or
in Sweden
http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789163782626/shakespeare-calling-the-book/
or
Adlibris. Or contact the publisher info@vulkan.se
Shakespeare sightings:
- In Janet Skeslien Charles’s book The Paris Library, and in real life, Clara de Chambrun was a renowned Shakespearean scholar.
- In The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves, several of the characters are authors and killing each other and leaving clues, for example the handkerchief, referring to Othello.
- The Twilight Zone – remember that one?
– has so far referred to Shakespeare the following times in the first season:
- a poor old guy is left alone in the world after a nuclear bomb is dropped but he finds happiness when he comes across a bombed-out library with all the classics, including Shakespeare.
- in a time-travel episode one of the characters quotes Hamlet’s ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…’ and adds, ‘and space…’
- in a WWII episode the quote ‘the purple testament of bleeding war’ is incorrectly attributed to Richard III but it’s actually Richard II. Still impressive, don’t you think?
- In Saturday Night Fever the two main characters discuss Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, then showing at the cinema.
- The director of Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Ari Kaurismäki, also directed Hamlet Goes Business (Liikemaailmassa).
- Repo Men – Live Schreiber is in Hamlet.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Bob Hoskins is in Othello.
- Alien 3:
- Brian Glover is in Prince of Jutland
- Ralph Brown is in The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Danny Webb is in Henry
V, Twelfth Night
- Pete Postlethwaite is in Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
- Alien Resurrection:
Winona Ryder is in Looking for
Richard
- Prometheus: Michael Fassbender is in Macbeth.
- Hidden Figures: Kevin Costner plays a wandering Shakespearean actor in the dystopian The Postman.
- Genova: Colin Firth is in Shakespeare in Love.
- Tomb Raider: Dominic West is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard III. Daniel Wu is in The Empress, a Japanese spin-off of Hamlet. Kristin Scott Thomas is in Richard III. Derek Jacobi is in Hamlet, Henry V, Hamlet, Richard II
- Rocketman: Bryce
Dallas Howard is in As You Like It. Steven Mackintosh is in Twelfth
Night. Harriet Walter took part in Simon
Schama’s Shakespeare.
- Mona Lisa: Shakespeare
connection: Bob Hoskins is in Othello.
Robbie Coltrane was just barely in Henry V.
Further since last time:
- Finished reading aloud to Hal: Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro. A real ‘wow’ book, shedding new light on Shakespeare and American history. Shapiro is always a winner.
- This report
Shakespeare
Calling – the book is promoted by
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