‘A lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly’. That’s how I’d like to describe the weather in Stockholm today. Sunny and cold. What is your favourite Shakespeare winter quote?
As
always, this promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie
authors like myself always need support, even now when book signings and
lectures can again be scheduled. Only on the Internet can I reach people like
you, who are interested in Shakespeare would like to have the blog in book
form, as well as support the Shakespeare Calling project. 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:
- Kulturnytt on Swedish
television reported on a one-woman performance of King Lear in the town
Örebro.
- Twilight Zone had an episode called
‘The Bard’ in which Shakespeare returned to help a ham writer write brilliant
texts.
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
has its narrator Jane, a young black woman who expertly fights zombies after
the American Civil War, quoting Shakespeare and ridiculing those who are
surprised that she can.
- In the novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Madeline’s boss at the local theatre insists on doing King Lear though nobody is interested. Later she quotes Lear after an argument with her daughter: ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child, Abigail.’
Films with a
Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- Silkwood – David Strathairn
is in The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Judy - Rupert Goold directed The Hollow Crown. Jessie Buckley was in the stage performance of The Tempest at the Globe in London, and we were there! Rufus Sewell is in The Taming of the Shrew Re-Told and Hamlet. Michael Gambon is in The Hollow Crown. John Dalgleish is in All Is True, about Shakespeare’s last month in Stratford and The Hollow Crown.
- Logan’s Run - Michael Yorke is in Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew. Jenny Agutter is in Love’s Labour’s Lost.
- The Cloverfield Paradox - David Oyelowa is in As You Like It. Elizabeth Debecki is in Macbeth.
- Spotswood - Anthony
Hopkins is in Titus,
Othello
- Effie Gray - Tom Sturridge and Julie Walters are in The Hollow Crown. Emma Thompson is in Much Ado about Nothing and Henry V.
Further since last
time:
- Still reading: Women of Will by Tina Packer. It’s fascinating and I’m becoming inspired to write more on the subject.
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/
- https://rubyjandshakespearecalling.blogspot.com/2021/09/september-2021.html
