‘The teeming Autumn big with rich increase…’ Where did the summer go? And now we head into September. As we in the northern hemisphere move indoors again, we musn’t forget our face masks and social distancing. Even though we’ve been vaccinated! Stay safe, everybody, the world needs all the Shakespeare lovers it can get!
As
always, this 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
I would be thrilled to get an email from
you if you bought the book. rubyjandshakespearecalling@gmail.com
Shakespeare sightings:
- Gifty tries to take part in the conversation of the boyfriend’s intellectual friends by explaining her research on addiction but it’s too scientific for them and they start talking about King Lear. Gifty hasn’t read Shakespeare since high school and falls silent. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
- In the modern ghost/witch story Witch Hunt by Syd Moore Dan, who hovers between madness and psychic powers, quotes from The Tempest.
- In Haruki Murakami’s novel Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage Tsukuru’s friend Haida likes to read Shakespeare. Hmmm, it would be fun to hear Shakespeare in Japanese, wouldn’t it?
Films with a
Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- Jaws – Richard Dreyfuss
is in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Good-bye Girl, in
which he plays an actor doing Richard III.
- Wonderstruck - Michelle
Williams is in A Thousand Acres, a spinoff of King Lear
- The Omen - David Warner is in
Star Trek the Undiscovered Country, a loose spinoff of various
Shakespeare plays, and Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Waterworld - Kevin Costner is
in Postman about a wandering actor doing Shakespeare productions in a
dystopian future.
- Warm Bodies: The whole film,
although I didn’t figure that out until the balcony scene.
- Nothing special. It’s been a quiet Shakespeare month.
Posted this month:
- 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/
