Monday, April 5, 2021

April 2021

 ‘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:

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:

  • 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).

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

  • 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.

 Posted this month:

  • This report

 

 

Shakespeare Calling – the book is promoted by

 

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