‘True hope
is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.’ Despite the dark and heavy clouds I have hope. So,
stay safe, dear friends, and those of you who
can vote in the US – please vote out the madman who currently occupies the
White House.
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 Unbecoming by Jenny Downham Mary longs to be an actor and imagines herself on stage with her daughter in the role of Perdita but then remembers that Perdita is brought up by a shepherd and thinks maybe that’s not such a good idea after all. Later Mary tells her granddaughter Katie, ‘To thine own self be true.’ Later, as the rain pours down, Katie thinks of the mad king wandering in the storm after being betrayed by his daughters and seems to remember that Lear died in the end.
- Dagens Nyheter reports that the Swedish
actor Josephine Bornebusch says that Shakespeare is one of her romantic roll
models. ‘He must be on the list, it’s where everything started it, isn’t it?’
- In Fredrik Backman’s Folk med ångest (Anxious People) the actor who’s at the showing of the flat with a rabbit’s head on his head to drive away buyers…. Never mind, it’s a very complicated story but very good like all of Backman’s books… anyway he tells the interrogating cop that he has played in The Merchant from Venice and the cop corrects him, ‘Of.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘The Merchant of Venice.’
Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- Clash of the Titans –
a
brilliant cast including Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith and Claire Bloom in an
absolutely dreadful film that we didn’t even finish. I think these three are
too embarrassed for me to list their Shakespeare roles.
- Keeping Mum – Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas are in Richard III.
- Babel – Harriet Walter is in Hollow Crown. Michael Maloney is in Hamlet, Othello, In the Bleak Midwinter, Hamlet, Henry V
- The Favourite – Olivia Colman is in Much Ado about Nothing Re-Told
- Pulp Fiction - Tim Roth is in Guildenstern and Rosencrantz Are Dead.
- Mrs Henderson Presents - Judi Dench – countless. I’ve seen her in The Hollow Crown, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Henry V, Macbeth. Bob Hoskins – Othello.
- The Great Debaters – Denzel Washington
is in Much Ado About Nothing.
- Practical Magic – Aiden Quinn is in
Pacino’s documentary Looking for Richard
- Continued reading (to myself, alas, Hal is no longer up to listening to Shakespeare): The Merchant of Venice.
- Started wondering: Antonio or Portia? Which one will I write about?
- Received from the Globe Shop – the DVDs The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar. M of V and JC we saw at the Globe. It will be fun to see them again in this form.
- 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:
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/shakespeare-calling-the-book/
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/spoiler-merlin-and-shakespeare/
