Monday, December 2, 2019

December 2019


We haven’t had much of a Winter’s Tale yet but at least there is some snow in the Stockholm area.  There hasn’t been much Shakespeare in our lives either this past month, not even yesterday when we were planning to play ‘Shakespeare Trivial Pursuit’ with our friends, EG and EG, and we couldn’t find it! That’s the danger of tidying up. I know where it was before tidying up that corner but where did I put it? I’ll no doubt find it whilst looking for something else. Ah well.

Happy holidays to you all! I wish you loads of Shakespeare!

Here’s the report, starting with links to Shakespeare calling – the book (a good Christmas present for your Shakespeare friends? Or yourself?)

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

Or in Sweden
or Adlibris. Or contact the publisher info@vulkan.se

Shakespeare sightings:
  • In the novel The Big Alone by Kristin Hannah the main characters were reading Hamlet in school.
  • There was a review on Kulturnytt on the TV news of St Albyn’s Dunbar, now translated into Swedish. They also gave information on the series of contemporary novels based on Shakespeare plays (this one is about Lear). The reviewer liked the book and believes Shakespeare would be surprised that we still find Lear interesting. We have the book, but we haven’t read it yet.
  • Macbeth is being performed in Helsingborg, the TV program Sverige Idag (Sweden Today) tells us. It takes place in a modern-day office.


Further since last time:
  • Very little Shakespeare.

Posted this month
  • This report


Shakespeare Calling – the book is promoted by

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