Monday, October 2, 2023

October 2023

 


 

… The teeming Autumn big with full increase… 

One day, I hope to be able to quote something about peace, but again, sadly, I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘O war! thou son of hell’ O Putin! Thou son of hell! Our thoughts and support are still needed to the people of Ukraine, and the people of Russian who hate this war. Protest in any way you can! And don’t give up hope. ‘True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

In this time of turmoil and hope I give you this familiar promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like me always need support, even now when book signings and lectures can again be scheduled. Only on the Internet can I reach people like you, who are interested in Shakespeare would like to support the Shakespeare Calling project. I do so hope you will help me by ordering the book online. Any sales I make of this book will go directly to Doctors without Borders for their work in Ukraine as long as the war lasts. Just let me know and I’ll send the money forthwith. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge.

The book is available for those of you in Great Britain and parts of Europe on this site:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/9163782626/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1514378301&sr=8-1

 

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

 

I would be thrilled to get an email from you if you bought the book. rubyjandshakespearecalling@gmail.com

 

Shakespeare sightings:

  • In the novel How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, the main character was born in 1599 and grows old very, very slowly. He’s over four hundred in the present time. Of course he meets Shakespeare (as my alter ego Rhuddem Gwelin’s Merlin does in An Isle Full of Noises, The Merlin Chronicles Volume 3).
  • In an article in Dagens Nyheter Ian McKellen’s Richard III is mentioned.
  • Also in Dagens Nyheter there is a review of a production in Copenhagen of Richard II saying not much more of interest than the fact that the play is not performed as often as Richard III
  • David Baddiel, in his book The God Desire, writes that, ‘At a time when belief was not optional, Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure…”Ay, but to die, and go we know not where…”…[he] may, in this speech, be referencing …Lucretius, whose work De rerum natura was rediscovered in Italy in the 15th century….’ Followers of this blog may be aware that De rerum natura is very important in my alter ego Rhuddem Gwelin’s series of novels The Merlin Chronicles. Oh the webs we spin!
  • Our dear Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, is dead. In the beginning of his career he was in productions of Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth. According to Dagens Nyheter.
  • Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Jr mentions Shakespeare several times throughout the book in toss-off comments.

 

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

  • Summerland - Penelope Wilton is in King Lear and Othello.
  • The King of Devil’s Island - Stellan Skarsgård is in Hamlet.
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Paul Ruud is in Romeo and Julia.
  • The Fourth Kind - Milla Jovovich is in Cymbeline.
  • Playing for Time - Vanessa Redgrave is in Coriolanus. Max Wright is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • Good Time - Jennifer Jason Leigh is in A Thousand Acres
  • Black Swan - Winona Ryder is in Looking for Richard
  • Homicide the Movie - Reed Diamond is in Much Ado about Nothing.
  • The Machinist - Christian Bale is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince of Jutland, Henry V. Jennifer Jason Leigh is in A Thousand Acres.

 

Further since last time:

  • My dear friend LJ, a music therapist, and I have started working on a Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, much abridged, for the residents of our community’s homes for the elderly.

                     

Posted this month:

  • This report

 Shakespeare Calling – the book is promoted by http://shakespearesallskapet.se/

 

Read more about my alter ego’s books, in one of which Shakespeare appears live and in person, on:

 

 

 

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