December 2020

 

December 2020

 

We could say that now starts our winter of discontent, if we think about Covid 19. Or we could say that in this impending winter we will with warm tears melt the snow if these tears are of relief over the imminent ousting of Trump from the White House and the optimistic reports that vaccines are on the way. In any case, let December end this turbulent year, and let us say that true hope is swift and flies with swallow’s wings. Happy holidays! Stay safe, stay well and stay hopeful.

 

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:

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

 

Shakespeare sightings:

• Dagens Nyheter writes that if Trump is a Shakespeare character, he is a stupid version of Richard III. To compare Trump to Lear is an insult to Shakespeare.
• In Arthur C Clarke’s classic A Fall of Moondust the passengers trapped in their tourist vessel under the dust of the moon consider their reading material, a ‘Western’ classic that is considered by some as irrelevant because it’s about an historical time, upon which a professor says that this reasoning ‘is as illogical as dismissing Hamlet on the grounds that events restricted to a small and draughty Danish castle could not possibly be of universal significance.’

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

• The Leisure Seeker – I’ve seen Mirren in Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest.
• Split – McAvoy plays Macbeth in the Re-Told version.
• On the Basis of Sex - Jones is in The Tempest.
• Defiance – Schreiber is in Almereyda’s Hamlet.
• Glass - McAvoy plays Macbeth in the Re-Told version.  Spencer Treat Clark is in Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing. 

Further since last time:

• Finished reading (to myself, alas, Hal is no longer up to listening to Shakespeare): The Merchant of Venice.
• Wrote: about Antonio or Portia and Trump’s supporters in ‘The Good People of Venice’ in The Merchant of Venice. 

Posted this month

• ‘The Good People of Venice’ in The Merchant of Venice. https://rubyjandshakespearecalling.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-good-people-of-venice-in-merchant.html
• 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:

·       https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/shakespeare-calling-the-book/

·       https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/spoiler-merlin-and-shakespeare/

 

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