I hope you are all safe and well and
still being careful. And still loving 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:
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 Michelle Obama’s wonderful book Becoming, she attends a performance of Shakespeare in a girls’ school in London.
- In the brilliant film Educating Rita working class Rita is ecstatic over her introduction to Shakespeare through a theatre production of Macbeth.
- In Claire North’s The Sudden Appearance of Hope the title character pretends she works for the British council and promotes Britishness, including Shakespeare. Later, on a cruise she watches a performance of Richard III, and another time a bloody Coriolanus. At another point she meets a prostitute called Portia and she wonders, ‘Like…Porthos?’ To which the woman replies haughtily, ‘Like Shakespeare, idiot.’
- Paul Kalanithi, in his memoirs When breath becomes air, felt that his life, as he was dying of cancer, was more like a Greek tragedy than Shakespeare, where focus was on the individual.
- In Nick Hornby’s Just Like You, the young lover Joseph gets tickets to a Shakespeare play for his twenty-year-older lover Lucy because a colleague told him to. Joseph knows nothing and cares less about Shakespeare.
- Buffy, the famed Vampire Slayer, is in English class when the Afro-American teacher quotes the ‘if you prick us do we not bleed’ monolog and asks for comments. Cordelia says, ‘Whine, whine, whine…people who think their problems are so huge…!’ Cordelia is a real sweetheart.
- Seen on Facebook: a photo of the hand sanitiser at the National Theatre in London, called ‘Lady Macbeth’.
- In Stieg Larsson’s book Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in English) the Vanger family’s dramas and conflicts are compared to Shakepeare by the family patriarch.
Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- Lost in Space – Oldman is in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- The Gentlemen - Michelle Dockery is in The Hollow Crown.
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Leonardo DiCaprio is in Romeo & Juliet.’
- Red Joan - Trevor Nunn directed King Lear, Twelfth Night, Macbeth. Judi Dench is in The Hollow Crown, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Henry V, Macbeth. Nina Sosanya is in Much Ado about Nothing Re-Told. Tom Hughes and Ben Miles are in The Hollow Crown.
- Dreamgirls - John Lithgow is a brilliant Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
Further since last time:
- Started reading aloud to Hal: Hamnet
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:
